• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: Service without Icon or Window?
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Service without Icon or Window?


  • Subject: Re: Service without Icon or Window?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:56:56 -0700

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Lightning Duck <email@hidden> wrote:
> I need to make an application  that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will.  Not in the sense of running from the "Services" menu but something the tuns continually in the background with an Icon in the Dock or a Window of it's own, that monitors when files are added or removed from a directory

What you want to do is called either a "daemon" or an "agent." There
is a technote that explains the difference, and is required reading if
you want to implement anything of the sort:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html

> So basically I have two requirements
>
> Monitor the contents of a directory

You can do this with a launchd job that watches a set of paths.

--Kyle Sluder
_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:

This email sent to email@hidden

References: 
 >Service without Icon or Window? (From: Lightning Duck <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: Service without Icon or Window?
  • Next by Date: Re: Service without Icon or Window?
  • Previous by thread: Re: Service without Icon or Window?
  • Next by thread: Re: Service without Icon or Window?
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread