Re: Shell tool with GUI
Re: Shell tool with GUI
- Subject: Re: Shell tool with GUI
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:29:25 -0500
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Chris Hiszpanski wrote:
>
>> - How can I create a window without creating a full fledge application
>> (i.e. without creating an instance of NSApplication)?
>
> While not technically supported, you can use anything in the AppKit after
> calling NSApplicationLoad() once.
Sure, but unless you really know what you're doing and have a very
good reason for doing it, this approach for a "GUI-less app with a
window" is just plain silly. If you want a Cocoa "program" (avoiding
use of the word "application" to avoid confusion with an NSApplication
instance) with a window in the GUI, just create a normal Cocoa
application and be done with it.
Maybe the OP can give a more thorough description of what he's
trying to accomplish and why he wants a window but no other GUI
elements. It raises some pretty important questions: How will the user
control this disembodied window floating on his/her desktop? Why have
a window if you're making your user launch (and quit) the "program"
from the command line?
Sorry to harp on this, but it just seems like a very, very wrong way
of approaching Mac OS X application design.
--
I.S.
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