Re: how to get events from a carbon event handler, in a cocoa app.
Re: how to get events from a carbon event handler, in a cocoa app.
- Subject: Re: how to get events from a carbon event handler, in a cocoa app.
- From: John Clayton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:19:43 +0200
Yes, tried that already - and the Workspace stuff works well - but it
won't show me the start/termination of applications that don't talk
to the window server - i.e. daemon processes. And I need this to
detect my daemon process :-)
john
On Sep 14, 2006, at 17:24, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
I haven't confirmed this, but Carbon Event dispatch in Cocoa is
limited by Apple to only those events for which there are no
reasonable Cocoa counterparts. For instance, the "front process
changed" events are dispatched because NSWorkspace doesn't offer
any such facility.
Have you tried using the NSWorkspace
"NSWorkspaceDidLaunchApplicationNotification" etc notifications to
achieve your goal?
Daniel
On Sep 14, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Clayton John wrote:
OK, I basically want to listen for process activation and
termination... watching the live process list essentially, here's
how the handler gets installed:
EventTypeSpec eventsToListenFor [2];
eventsToListenFor[0].eventClass = kEventClassApplication;
eventsToListenFor[0].eventKind = kEventAppLaunched;
eventsToListenFor[1].eventClass = kEventClassApplication;
eventsToListenFor[1].eventKind = kEventAppTerminated;
OSStatus functionResult = InstallApplicationEventHandler
(launchTerminateCallbackUPP,
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