Re: Service without Icon or Window?
Re: Service without Icon or Window?
- Subject: Re: Service without Icon or Window?
- From: Lightning Duck <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:34:40 -0600
Thanks, all, for the advice and the pointers
Take care,
Jay
On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
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> On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Lightning Duck wrote:
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>> I need to make an application that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will. Not in the sense of running from the "Services" menu but something the tuns continually in the background with an Icon in the Dock or a Window of it's own, that monitors when files are added or removed from a directory
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>> So basically I have two requirements
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>> Monitor the contents of a directory
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>> Run without visibility?
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>> Can anyone send me to some pointers for how to do either, or both, of these tasks?
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> It sounds like you want a launchd agent. launchd can launch your program when certain paths are modified, via the WatchPaths or QueueDirectories info plist keys.
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> The advantage of this approach is that your process does not have to run continuously in the background: it's launched on-demand, and can exit when it's finished.
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