Re: Finding applications that link to framework
Re: Finding applications that link to framework
- Subject: Re: Finding applications that link to framework
- From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:49:46 +0100
On 26 Sep 2005, at 13:07, Thom McGrath wrote:
I'm creating a framework which (of course) does lots of fancy
tasks, primarily involving communicating between other applications
that include this framework. The idea is that the applications will
work well together, like Adobe CS and Microsoft Office. I had this
hard-coded before, but wanted the ability to allow additional
applications by other developers to "join in" on this suite, so I
created this framework. So far, things are going wonderfully.
Why not have them locate each other through a well-defined mach port
or similar IPC mechanism? Each app that embeds the framework tries
to contact this port and says "hello, here I am".
But I am trying to find the best way to have one application locate
the other applications which embed the framework.
Is that really the criterion? Isn't it: can interoperate with
other, like-minded apps?
One idea is to have a "preferences-like" file modified by the
framework when the application launches, which contains an NSArray
of each identifier. But this requires that each application be
launched before it will appear to the others. So I was wondering if
there is a better way.
Why would an application need to interact if it's never been launched?
Cheers,
Marcel
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