site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com On 01/01/2011, at 6:43 AM, Peter Watkins wrote:
I know that each Cocoa app implements writeSelectionToPasteboard(), and I'm guessing this is how services interact with running apps. Each service is a separate short-running process. Sothere must be some sort of IPC to get the selection from the running app into the service's pasteboard. If I can figure out what that IPC is, I can send a message to a running application, and this would avoid flashing the menu bar.
Any ideas on getting another app to run its writeSelectionToPasteboard() method?
Read the Services Implementation Guide: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysSe... The app needs to be written to be services aware, and implement the protocols specified in the guide. If not, you can't do what you're doing for any arbitrary app. Between the Cut or Copy menu command and data being put on the pasteboard, the app can do whatever it wants, there is no 'standard' method that gets called and the method names are arbitrary (even the action method that responds to the Copy command might not be called -copy:) There's no 'Copy' or 'Paste' event. Some apps might expose these through applescript - again, there's no guarantee. What are you really trying to achieve? If you implement your service in a standard way, apps that are services aware will be able to use it. If not, they won't, and you have to live with it. You can't force an app to become services aware if it wasn't written to be. --Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/site_archiver%40lists.apple... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com