services
services
- Subject: services
- From: "Simson Garfinkel" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:06:02 -0500
I'm now trying to get services to work. (People who are following in the
table of contents will note that Mike and I have now completed chapters 0-19
and 21 and we are now trying to get chapter 20 finished.)
Whole bunch of questions.
1. Is Info.plist supposed to be in property-list format or in XML?
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/Programmin
gTopics/SysServices/index.html
indicates that it is supposed to be in PLIST format.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/Programmin
gTopics/SysServices/Concepts/properties.html#CHDJDFIC
seems to indicates that it should be in XML, and that you should edit the
XML using the "plist editor" --- that is, the EXPERT mode of Project
Builder.
2. This is really ugly. Are there any plans to have a real services editor?
3. How does Workspace determine where the applications are that provide
services? Does it scan all of the applications on the HFS+ disk? What about
UFS drives?
4. if I am creating a new service, how do I get Workspace to notice that the
service is now being published?
5. Are services offered to Carbon applications? it doesn't look like they
are.
6. Hey, Apple, the Summarize service is really cool. Try it on a CNN
article.
7. What is the "userdata" ?
8. Is the "port" simply the name of the application?
9. Is the message simply the first part of the method name?
Oh, I've got Services working. But these are nagging questions that need to
be answered...
Thanks in advance!