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solved re: Faceless background agent application
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solved re: Faceless background agent application


  • Subject: solved re: Faceless background agent application
  • From: Keith Alperin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:15:17 -0500

I had a chance to try it out and it works perfectly. For posterity, this is what i did:

1)add the LSUIElement to my info.plist:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
2)use Interface Builder to make sure that none of my windows have "Visible at launch time" checked.
3)call a method from within the main method in main.m which registers my hot key
4)compile, launch and enjoy my faceless app!


Thanks again,
Keith

On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:

You don't even need to put it all in main.m. You can start with a Cocoa Application template, make sure it does everything exactly how you would like it to, and add the LSUIElement attribute at any time to get the faceless behavior you're looking for. It can be handy in some instances to keep the menu bar and dock icon around while debugging.

In other words, there's just nothing very special about being faceless :)

Daniel

On Aug 3, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Keith Alperin wrote:

Thanks Daniel. I've read a little about LSUIElement before, but didn't quite get how to put it all together. It sounds like I should start with the Cocoa Application template in XCode, and put all of my initialization and handling code in main.m . Does this sound correct?



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