Re: What is Mac's "custom" for an agent to display its GUI?
Re: What is Mac's "custom" for an agent to display its GUI?
- Subject: Re: What is Mac's "custom" for an agent to display its GUI?
- From: Kiel Gillard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:47:26 +1100
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/PreferencePanes.html
On 17/11/2010, at 12:27 PM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote:
> 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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