Re: Question about System Services
Re: Question about System Services
- Subject: Re: Question about System Services
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 19:59:11 +0200
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On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 08:26 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
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>> Hello! I'm trying to build a System Service (the stand-alone kind that
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>> lives in /Library/Services/ and has a .service extension instead of
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>> .app)
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>> and while i've been able to find sufficient documentation on how to
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>> put together the info.plist file and the needed methods, i haven't
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>> been able to find docs on how to set up Project Builder to do this.
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>> I've started with a 'Cocoa Application' and changed what needs to be
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>> changed (like the .service extension). My question is, what else
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>> should i do. I don't want the service to launch with it's own menu bar
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>> and dock icon (if that's possible), the only UI i want is the panel
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>> that will pop up telling the user how far along it is in processing
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>> the requested data. Thanks for all the help!
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> Unless somebody will send a better advice, I am afraid you'll have to
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> make a "foundation tool" target, and add all the remaining stuff,
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> including the Info.plist and others, yourself (probably using some copy
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> and/or script phases).
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> It looks like a bore and really it is, but *so far as I know*, there
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> seems to be no other way. Of course, you probably could make a PB
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> template for that yourself, but it would be just as difficult and more,
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> due to the fact you would want to keep it generic.
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I would actually start with an application and modify that (unless
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perhaps you are doing a filter service), because services do depend on
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the AppKit. The way to prevent the menu bar and dock icon is to add
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LSBackgroundOnly = 1 to your info dictionary, if you will put up no UI,
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or LSUIElement = 1, if you will put up some UI.
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Douglas Davidson
I ususally start with the SimpleService sample code (from
/Developer/Examples/Cocoa). There are some minor adjustments that need to me
made, adjusting class names and target settings, but it takes just a few
minutes.
/ David
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