Re: cocoa/obj-c type daemon

FROM : Bill Cheeseman
DATE : Wed Oct 06 21:20:52 2004

on 2004-10-06 2:19 PM, Matthew Jaffa at <email_removed> wrote:

> So far with my example when it calls NSApplicationMain(argc, argv); the icon
> shows up in the Doc.
> Is there any way to make this not possible and to make it so that they don't
> even know the daemon is running, only by doing a ps.


Look up LSUIElement in the Xcode documentation search facility. The first
thing to read is the Mac OS X:Runtime Configuration:Property List Key
Reference document. By setting LSUIElement = 1 in your application's
Info.pList file, you will keep your application out of the Dock and the
Force Quit window, but you will still have the ability to bring up UI when
you need to.

In all other respects, your application can be an ordinary Cocoa application
based on NSApplication. As to how you will handle sockets, that's for
somebody else to answer.

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Bill Cheeseman - <email_removed>
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