How to launch iCal on specified date from Cocoa app?

Question

Hi, I would like to launch iCal from my Cocoa app, but have iCal open on a specific date that I want to pass as an argument.
I am launching iCal as follows:
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:@"iCal"];
This opens iCal fine. But, is it possible to somehow pass the date I would like iCal to open at?
Thanks indeed.
Andy

Answer 1

Third-party alternative to Scripting Bridge that may be of interest:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net/
More reliable, better documentation, better developer tools, supports back to OS X 10.3.9, yadda-yadda. Only relative disadvantage is that you have to bundle or install it yourself, but that's not hard.
Example:
// To create glue [1]: osaglue -o ICGlue -p IC iCal
ICApplication *ical = [ICApplication applicationWithName: @"iCal"];
NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithString: @"2008-10-22 00:00:00 +0000"];
ICViewCalendarCommand *cmd = [[ical viewCalendar] at: date];
NSError *error;
id result = [cmd sendWithError: &error];
if (!result)
NSLog(@"%@", error);
Note that when building a framework for inclusion in an application bundle you need you tweak the build settings slightly, e.g. see:
http://cocoadev.com/index.pl?EmbeddingFrameworksInApplications
HTH
[1] Note: I'm currently integrating osaglue into ASDictionary to make it simpler to use, but haven't updated the old osaglue documentation yet. ASDictionary 0.12.0 should be released in another day or two; in the meantime I suggest just using the iCal glue files from the ViewCalendarInICal sample project in the objc-appscript repository.
Message was edited by: hhas