macos/buddax2-tmpnote/reference/launch.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Launch script for the "tmpNote" macOS app.
#
# tmpNote is a menu-bar (LSUIElement) application: when it starts it adds an
# icon to the system status bar rather than opening a normal window or showing
# a Dock icon. `open -W` keeps this launcher in the foreground until the app is
# quit from its menu.

set -euo pipefail

SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"

APP_NAME="tmpNote.app"

# Search the likely locations, in order:
#   1. $APP_OUTPUT_DIR (where build.sh was told to place the app)
#   2. next to this script (build.sh default output)
#   3. inside the derived-data build directory produced by build.sh
CANDIDATES=(
    "${APP_OUTPUT_DIR:-$SCRIPT_DIR}/$APP_NAME"
    "$SCRIPT_DIR/$APP_NAME"
    "$SCRIPT_DIR/build_dd/Build/Products/Release/$APP_NAME"
)

APP_PATH=""
for c in "${CANDIDATES[@]}"; do
    if [ -d "$c" ]; then
        APP_PATH="$c"
        break
    fi
done

if [ -z "$APP_PATH" ]; then
    echo "ERROR: could not find $APP_NAME. Run build.sh first." >&2
    echo "Looked in:" >&2
    printf '  %s\n' "${CANDIDATES[@]}" >&2
    exit 1
fi

echo "==> Launching $APP_PATH"
# -W waits until the (menu-bar) app terminates; --args forwards any extra flags.
exec open -W "$APP_PATH" --args "$@"