Running normally-GUI Cocoa apps as background processes
Running normally-GUI Cocoa apps as background processes
- Subject: Running normally-GUI Cocoa apps as background processes
- From: Ken Tabb <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:45:04 +0100
Hi,
Supposing I have a GUI-based Cocoa app, is there any way I can run it as
a background process (i.e. invisible, like Apache, not just 'behind the
current app')? I've got an app which I'd like to be running in the
background of some macs (doing background processing for image crunching)
and I'd like to be able to ssh in and start them up remotely, without the
user getting a faceful of half-processed image.
I know this can be done with X Windows apps, but bearing in mind there's
only 1 instance of the Quartz / Aqua window manager I'm not sure if it's
possible. Or are there some clever argc argv tweaks which can achieve it.
I'm hoping that I can then control it via DO on another mac.
Thanks in advance for any help,
the boy Ken
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Ken Tabb.
Mac & UNIX C/C++/Java developer (Health & Human Sciences),
Machine Vision researcher/programmer (Computer Science),
University of Hertfordshire, England
http://www.health.herts.ac.uk/ken/
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