Turns out my issue was not related to the Info.plist at all.
The confusion about 'default' label on the 'Services' menu has to do
with how Finder handles dropping a .plist into .txt field...
My service 'MyService' does indeed need to subclass NSApplication.
I just quit fighting against the tide and added an empty nib. -- Presto!
So now my working stand alone service provider consists of merely 6
small items:
1) an .icns file
2) an empty IB generated nib file - completely unmodified (v2 NIB in
my case [Tiger compatible])
(adding a NIB allows me to just use the standard main.m 'return
NSApplicationMain(argc, (const char **) argv);'
3) main.m - the usual Cocoa version (however see question below)
3) an Info.plist (Principal class set to 'MyService' and the standard
'Services' specification.
4) a MyService.h file which sublclasses NSApplication
5) the MyService.m file for the file above. This does 3 things:
- in init [NSApp setDelegate:self];
- in 'AppDidFinishLaunch' [NSApp setServiceProvider:self];
- provides the required method(s) for providing a service:
- (void) seviceName:(NSPasteboard *)pboard userData:(NSString
*)userData error:(NSString **)error
*** 2 Questions
-- I am operating on the presumption that this standalone service
should terminate after providing its service but I can see an argument
for not doing so.
It's pretty lightweight (one class (~100 lines of ObjC) and an empty
nib).
Do you have any guidance to offer here.
Since there is no interface to this service, what is the standard UI
support for termination?
-- In the past, I have used the following main.m to log data to
specific files:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
freopen([[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Library/
Logs/com.mycompany.myapp.log"] fileSystemRepresentation], "w", stderr);
[pool release];
return NSApplicationMain(argc, (const char **) argv);
}
But here my log statements are ending up in the console log.
Is there a way I can easily route log statements in MyService to a
specific file?
Hope to get some feedback on these questions and that this posting
eventually proves useful to someone else.
The key here needs to be "default" instead of "Menu item title".
This is a dictionary because it used to be keyed by localization,
with "default" the value for an unknown loc. Now we use the
ServicesMenu.strings file for localization, but the dictionary
remains.
-Peter
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