Re: PreferencePane and NSDistributedNotification
Re: PreferencePane and NSDistributedNotification
- Subject: Re: PreferencePane and NSDistributedNotification
- From: Mark Munz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:16:37 -0700
Although less "pure Cocoa" -- you could try using Apple events.
Register an EventHandler in your preference pane and have your
faceless app send an event to it when it's set up.
I use a similar approach between my faceless app and it's clients
(which may or may not be Cocoa apps).
HTH,
Mark Munz
Hi,
I'm writing a 2-part app. One part is a PreferencePane that resides
in System Preferences and the other is faceless (NSUIElement).
Among other things, I need to launch the faceless part from the
PreferencePane, and once the faceless part is launched, the UI on the
PreferencePane needs to be updated. To accomplish the later, I
registered for notifications from NSWorkspace
(NSWorkspaceDidLaunchApplicationNotification and
NSWorkspaceDidTerminateApplicationNotification) and that worked fine
until I made the faceless part NSUIElement. NSWorkspace apparently
don't send out launch and terminate notifications for NSUIElement
apps.
After some head-scratching, I came up with the idea of manually
posting distributed notifications from the faceless part. So I
register for distributed notifications from the preference pane. But
the notifications just went unnoticed.
What's up with that? Can't preference pane plug-ins receive
distributed notifications? Any suggestions for other ways to
communicate from the faceless part back to the preference pane
(distributed notifications work just fine the other direction)?
Thanks.
-Jay Teo
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