Cocoa - Not loading any window at startup ...

FROM : micpringle
DATE : Thu Mar 06 12:55:39 2008

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Cocoa but have an application that's coming along
nicely. Mostly when I have come across an issue I have managed to find a
solution using Google but this particular one has me stumped.

My application has three window, a notification window (similar to Growl)
that pops up when particular events happen, a window that pops-up when the
user clicks the dock icon and a preferences window that pops up when the
user selects preferences from a StatusBarItem I have added to the status
bar (or at least thats how it should work). All windows are in MainMenu.nib

The problem I'm having is that I don't want any windows to open when the
application launches, and at the moment the notification window opens (as
it's the only windows I've actually implemented so far), and I also don't
want a main menu because I've added a custom menu to the status bar. I've
looked at NSUIElement and LSUIElement but they remove the dock icon also,
and I need the dock icon, plus they still launch the window.

So ultimatley my question is, how do launch/setup my application so that I
get a dock icon, but no menu bar and so that no window is opened when
launched, only when the user does something that prompts a window.

Thanks in advance.

-Mic