Re: Cocoa equivelant of NMInstall()?
Re: Cocoa equivelant of NMInstall()?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa equivelant of NMInstall()?
- From: Gwynne <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:12:13 -0500
On Mar 17, 2004, at 11:02 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
[...] do I really have to change what should be a bg-only application
to a UI element just because it needs to pop up a notification [...]
I think so, but I also think you misinterpret the LSUIElement
property: "[LSUIElement applications] typically run as background
applications, they can come to the foreground to present a user
interface if desired [...]". I.e. it has no Dock icon nor exists in
the Force Quit window, so the user will see it as bg-only until you
open the requester.
I understand what LSUIElement does. The issue I have is with not using
it as documented. "UI Element" means something the user interacts with.
My application is the background daemon for a preference
pane-controlled service, and therefore "Background Only" suits it. The
old Notification Manager would have served my purpose exactly without
having to declare my application to be something it isn't, but it's
old, and Carbon. I was hoping that just once Apple would let me use the
system they way they document it.
-- Gwynne, key to the Code that runs us all
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