How can a Cocoa application add itself as a global login item?

Question

I tried

LSSharedFileListRef globalLoginItems = LSSharedFileListCreate(NULL, kLSSharedFileListGlobalLoginItems, NULL);
if (globalLoginItems) {
    LSSharedFileLi         


        

Answer 1

This works for me:

NSString * appPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];

// This will retrieve the path for the application
CFURLRef url = (CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:appPath]; 

// Create a reference to the shared file list.
// We are adding it to the current user only.
// If we want to add it all users, use
// kLSSharedFileListGlobalLoginItems instead of
//kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems
LSSharedFileListRef loginItems = LSSharedFileListCreate(NULL, kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems, NULL);
if (loginItems) {
    //Insert an item to the list.
    LSSharedFileListItemRef item = LSSharedFileListInsertItemURL(loginItems,kLSSharedFileListItemLast, NULL, NULL,url, NULL, NULL);
    if (item){
        CFRelease(item);
    }
}   

CFRelease(loginItems);