Issue on isEnabled change value about node-auto-launch HOT 4 CLOSED

You could store it in localStorage (i.e. a Boolean indicating whether or not it's set to auto-launch). Then when the app starts up, check isEnabled and if it's different to what's in localStorage, the user has changed it outside of your app.

I hope that helps.

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I can check it on app start up, so it 's only OK if I restart app. But I want to check without restarting app.
My case:

• I have checkbox that show whether app will launch on startup or not.
• It is unchecked. Then I check it.
• After that, I remove login item outside app.
• Return to my app, I want it will be unchecked.

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Short answer: you can't.

Right now, we don't support any way to do that (e.g. events that fire when the value changes). I'm not an expert on this, but it would have to be figured out separately for each platform, if the platform provides a way to achieve it.

For Windows, we use winreg. It doesn't support any change events. This Stack Overflow answer implies it is possible (in general).

I didn't look into Linux & Mac APIs but on Linux or Mac (if using launch agent), a file is created on disk... maybe you could a file watcher library to detect when the file has changed. Worst case scenario: a workaround could be just to call isEnabled periodically. It's not nice but it'll work.

I'm open to suggestions.

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OK, I will find a workaround solution.

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