What is Mac's "custom" for an agent to display its GUI?
What is Mac's "custom" for an agent to display its GUI?
- Subject: What is Mac's "custom" for an agent to display its GUI?
- From: eveningnick eveningnick <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:27:29 +0200
Hello!
I have to write an application, that should run on the background.
When the user needs, it should display some control panel. On Windows
system i would have used System tray, and an icon there - when the
user clicks on that icon, it displays some GUI. but what is the Mac's
usual practice? I am thinking that the analog to that tray application
is an agent, launched by launchd. On what event it is considered to be
good to trigger that "control panel"?
All i could think of - is installing a global event tap (but i need
accessibility Enabled then all the time - it is neither a good idea)
and watch some Shortcut pressed on a keyboard.
Another idea was to create an item in "System preferences" (but, could
it be done? And how?).
And where should I install that application? Installing in
/Applications doesn't seem to be nice, because it's not really a
full-gui applicatlion, It's rather some kind of background system
helper.
Thanks for the hints,
George
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