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NSService - I need a headslap
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NSService - I need a headslap


  • Subject: NSService - I need a headslap
  • From: Steve Cronin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:44:51 -0600

Folks;

I have a need for a stand-alone service.
Seems like Service don't get alot of love... (Maybe that's my problem .. but I don't think so)


To be clear here, this is a stand-alone .service type application (not a service vended by a larger app (like Mail).

Here's what I have done:
0) built with a .service wrapper
1) Info.plist - PrinClass=NSApp; Bundle OS Type = APPL; ExecutableFile=MyClassName; App is BackgroundOnly
1) Info.plist - Services{Menu, SendType, instance method name, and incoming service port name)
2) No xib file
3) standard main.m
4) I have a single ObjC class whose .m looks like this


+(void)initialize {	[NSApp setDelegate:self]; }

- (void) applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNote {
	[NSApp setServicesProvider:self];
	void NSUpdateDynamicServices(void);
}

- (void) myServiceName:(NSPasteboard *)pboard userData:(NSString *)userData error:(NSString **)error {
.....
}


What I can't get my head wrapped around is how/when does this .service thing get launched?
The docs seem to indicate that you can just build it as a .service, stuff into the ~/Library/Services and you are good to go...
(These docs are more than 8 years old.... Is there any later material?)


On Tiger systems I see the service appear on the Services menu.... Not so on Leopard
(On Leopard even if I log out and back in I still do not see the service in the menu...
But either way I never get any response. If I put in log statements I never see any activity...
What am I overlooking? I KNOW its something silly but have mercy my head is bloody....


Thanks for any help!!
Steve
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