3 questions

• Joshua Clements 3 questions Sep 30 2001, 19:37
  1. Does anyone know how to create a system level key-equivalent (like
  command-shift-Q for logging out)
  
  2. Is it possible for an application to be running without displaying an
  icon in the dock?
  
  3. Is there a way to programmatically display a combo box list?
  
  Thanks
  
  josh
• Joshua Clements Re: 3 questions Sep 30 2001, 19:55
  before anyone mentions it...i found the answer to number 2 in this lists
  archives
  
  adding a new element to info.plist
  
  <key>NSUIElement</key>
  <string>1</string>
  
  On Sunday, September 30, 2001, at 10:37 PM, Joshua Clements wrote:
  
  

  > 1. Does anyone know how to create a system level key-equivalent (like
  > command-shift-Q for logging out)
  >
  > 2. Is it possible for an application to be running without displaying
  > an icon in the dock?
  >
  > 3. Is there a way to programmatically display a combo box list?
  >
  > Thanks
  >
  > josh
  >
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• Finlay Dobbie Re: 3 questions Sep 30 2001, 23:26
  On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 03:37 AM, Joshua Clements wrote:
  
  

  > 1. Does anyone know how to create a system level key-equivalent (like
  > command-shift-Q for logging out)
  

  
  Will services do what you want?
  
  

  > 2. Is it possible for an application to be running without displaying
  > an icon in the dock?
  

  
  See my other e-mail.
  
  

  > 3. Is there a way to programmatically display a combo box list?
  

  
  Does -selectItemAtIndex:(int)index work?
  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/
  ObjC_classic/Classes/NSComboBox.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSComboBox/selectItemAtIndex:
  I haven't had a chance to try it, but it looks promising.
  
    -- Finlay
• Andreas Monitzer Re: 3 questions Oct 01 2001, 00:15
  On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 04:37 , Joshua Clements wrote:
  
  

  > 1. Does anyone know how to create a system level key-equivalent (like
  > command-shift-Q for logging out)
  

  
  Carbon hotkeys will do it (and it's actually the only known way to do it).
  
  andy
  --
  Discussion forthcoming.
• Joshua Clements Re: 3 questions Oct 01 2001, 17:34
  What is carbon hotkeys?
  
  On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 03:15 AM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
  
  

  > On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 04:37 , Joshua Clements wrote:
  >
  >> 1. Does anyone know how to create a system level key-equivalent (like
  >> command-shift-Q for logging out)
  >
  > Carbon hotkeys will do it (and it's actually the only known way to do
  > it).
  >
  > andy
  > --
  > Discussion forthcoming.
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  >
  
• Finlay Dobbie Re: 3 questions Oct 11 2001, 01:12
  On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 01:34 AM, Joshua Clements wrote:
  
  

  > What is carbon hotkeys?
  

  
  an API in carbon for implementing system-wide key event things... it's
  how Snapz Pro X manages to be invoked by cmd-shift-3.
  
    -- Finlay
• Joshua Clements Re: 3 questions Oct 11 2001, 01:13
  Is there any documentation for this?  can you point
  towards it?  I can't locate it on apples website or
  the developer documentation.  can you at least point
  me to a header file.
  
  thanks
  josh
  
  --- Finlay Dobbie <finlay.dobbie...>
  wrote:
  

  >
  > On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 01:34 AM, Joshua
  > Clements wrote:
  >
  >> What is carbon hotkeys?
  >
  > an API in carbon for implementing system-wide key
  > event things... it's
  > how Snapz Pro X manages to be invoked by
  > cmd-shift-3.
  >
  > -- Finlay
  >
  >
  >
  

  
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• Finlay Dobbie Re: 3 questions Oct 11 2001, 01:14
  On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 03:17 PM, Joshua Clements wrote:
  
  

  > Is there any documentation for this?  can you point
  > towards it?  I can't locate it on apples website or
  > the developer documentation.  can you at least point
  > me to a header file.
  

  
  Looks like it's in CarbonEvents.h -- the only problem with this is that
  you can't use Carbon Events from a Cocoa application.
  
    -- Finlay
• Finlay Dobbie Re: 3 questions Oct 11 2001, 02:18
  On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 03:55 AM, Joshua Clements wrote:
  
  

  > before anyone mentions it...i found the answer to number 2 in this
  > lists archives
  >
  >
  > adding a new element to info.plist
  >
  > <key>NSUIElement</key>
  > <string>1</string>
  

  
  Not the recommended way of doing it. See System Overview:
  
  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/Softwa
  reConfig/
  Software_Configuration.html
  
  LSBackgroundOnly: If set to "true", makes your application
  background-only. This is necessary only for processes that use
  higher-level frameworks that connect to the window server but are not
  intended to be visible to users.
  
    -- Finlay