Heads up: Cog crashes Mojave (public beta) about cog HOT 5 CLOSED

This appears to happen due to Mojave's new security features. Once you tick Cog in System Preferences / Security & Privace / Accessibility, it works again.

Perhaps handling this scenario and throwing an error to the user would be ideal.

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To throw an error, I would have to develop against and built with the Xcode 10 beta, and run tests on Mojave. The API for asking for permission to use that feature is only in the 10.14 SDK, which is still in beta. I'll look into fixing that eventually.

I'm not exactly eager to be using Mojave full time, what with my daily use video communications software being quite broken there.

Alternately, I can try to avoid the error and fail gracefully, at the expense of media key support. Better than crashing.

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This should be handled now, even without touching new 10.14 APIs. It now warns the user that they'll need to enable the permission, and allows the process to continue, minus the global media key hooking.

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Thanks so much @kode54. You're spot on with your reply above too, I just wanted to pop in an issue so that it can be considered after Mojave comes out.

Really appreciate your help!
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Confirmed that the latest build resolves this one, thanks again. Closing this issue 😄

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