Added a method RecentlyOpenedFilesList::registerRecentFileNatively() and updated the introjucer to register its recent documents with the OS.

extras/Introjucer/Source/Project/jucer_Project.cpp

@@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ void Project::addDefaultModules (bool shouldCopyFilesLocally)
 }
 
 //==============================================================================
+static void registerRecentFile (const File& file)
+{
+    RecentlyOpenedFilesList::registerRecentFileNatively (file);
+    StoredSettings::getInstance()->recentFiles.addFile (file);
+    StoredSettings::getInstance()->flush();
+}
+
 const String Project::loadDocument (const File& file)
 {
     ScopedPointer <XmlElement> xml (XmlDocument::parse (file));
@@ -214,8 +221,7 @@ const String Project::loadDocument (const File& file)
     if (! newTree.hasType (Tags::projectRoot))
         return "The document contains errors and couldn't be parsed!";
 
-    StoredSettings::getInstance()->recentFiles.addFile (file);
-    StoredSettings::getInstance()->flush();
+    registerRecentFile (file);
     projectRoot = newTree;
 
     removeDefunctExporters();
@@ -229,15 +235,16 @@ const String Project::saveDocument (const File& file)
     return saveProject (file, true);
 }
 
-String Project::saveProject (const File& file, bool showProgressBox)
+String Project::saveProject (const File& file, bool isCommandLineApp)
 {
     updateProjectSettings();
     sanitiseConfigFlags();
 
-    StoredSettings::getInstance()->recentFiles.addFile (file);
+    if (isCommandLineApp)
+        registerRecentFile (file);
 
     ProjectSaver saver (*this, file);
-    return saver.save (showProgressBox);
+    return saver.save (isCommandLineApp);
 }
 
 String Project::saveResourcesOnly (const File& file)

extras/Introjucer/Source/Project/jucer_Project.h

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public:
     const String getDocumentTitle();
     const String loadDocument (const File& file);
     const String saveDocument (const File& file);
-    String saveProject (const File& file, bool showProgressBox);
+    String saveProject (const File& file, bool isCommandLineApp);
     String saveResourcesOnly (const File& file);
     const File getLastDocumentOpened();
     void setLastDocumentOpened (const File& file);

modules/juce_gui_extra/juce_gui_extra.cpp

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 namespace juce
 {
 
-// START_AUTOINCLUDE documents/*.cpp, code_editor/*.cpp, embedding/*.cpp, lookandfeel/*.cpp, misc/*.cpp
+#include "../juce_core/native/juce_osx_ObjCHelpers.h"
 #include "documents/juce_FileBasedDocument.cpp"
 #include "code_editor/juce_CodeDocument.cpp"
 #include "code_editor/juce_CodeEditorComponent.cpp"
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ namespace juce
 #include "misc/juce_RecentlyOpenedFilesList.cpp"
 #include "misc/juce_SplashScreen.cpp"
 #include "misc/juce_SystemTrayIconComponent.cpp"
-// END_AUTOINCLUDE
 
 }
 

modules/juce_gui_extra/misc/juce_RecentlyOpenedFilesList.cpp

@@ -130,3 +130,17 @@ void RecentlyOpenedFilesList::restoreFromString (const String& stringifiedVersio
 
     setMaxNumberOfItems (maxNumberOfItems);
 }
+
+
+//==============================================================================
+void RecentlyOpenedFilesList::registerRecentFileNatively (const File& file)
+{
+   #if JUCE_MAC
+    JUCE_AUTORELEASEPOOL
+
+    [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]
+        noteNewRecentDocumentURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath: juceStringToNS (file.getFullPathName())]];
+   #else
+    (void) file;
+   #endif
+}

modules/juce_gui_extra/misc/juce_RecentlyOpenedFilesList.h

@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ public:
     */
     void removeNonExistentFiles();
 
+    /** Tells the OS to add a file to the OS-managed list of recent documents for this app.
+        Not all OSes maintain a list of recent files for an application, so this
+        function will have no effect on some OSes. Currently it's just implemented for OSX.
+    */
+    static void registerRecentFileNatively (const File& file);
+
     //==============================================================================
     /** Adds entries to a menu, representing each of the files in the list.