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Re: App Listener?
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Re: App Listener?


  • Subject: Re: App Listener?
  • From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:10:29 -0500


On Jan 8, 2009, at 09:14 AM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:

At 05:55 -0800 08/01/09, email@hidden wrote:
From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 05:39:57 -0800
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On 2009 Jan, 07, at 22:46, Chunk 1978 wrote:

does this work with Dashboard?  it seems that dashboard is a
background application that's always open...

Well, obviously it does not.

You'd need a NSWorkspaceDidActivateApplicationNotification, but it looks like there is no such thing. You could periodically poll - [NSWorkspace activeApplication], but I hope someone has a better idea, because if you do I would not want your process running on my Mac.

Today, the only solution seems to be to install a Carbon Event handler for the {kEventClassApplication, kEventAppFrontSwitched} event.



A hacky idea might be to create an Objective-C Dashboard widget that reports when it is displayed or updated, if that's possible.


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Jonathan Hendry

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Maunsell Lab
Harvard Medical School


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