Is there some way to check if an app has opened successfully on the Mac? This may sound like a silly question - if you open Pages, you know it's been successfully opened when you can see or edit your documents. But here's my situation: I'm running an Automator script to try to open all the apps I need on a given workday at once. Not only open but - here's the kicker - I want them grouped on particular Spaces. So I've got a kludge that's workable: I open up an app or two, switch Spaces, and then introduce an artificial delay in the execution of the Automator script for a set time, usually ~5 seconds. However, depending on whatever other background processes are in play at the moment, this hard-coded time only successfully lands the apps in the appropriate Space about 70% of the time. So back to the original question: is there a way of knowing when an app has successfully and completely opened? That way I could just check for that, and then move to the next Space and continue.

I'm trying to teach myself Swift using the "App Development with Swift" book. I've gotten to Chapter 4: Tables and Persistence and am working my way through the Emoji Dictionary app. I'm trying to customize a table cell. The book tells me to create a custom Cocoa touch file, and then add that to the Class identifier under the Identity inspector - but the file name does not show up under the drop-down menu. I have tried quitting Xcode and starting again, I've tried deleting the file and adding it again, I've searched the web and though I found a similar question on StackOverflow, the solution there did not work. This is driving me bonkers and I can't complete the assignment. Any help would be very appreciated.