Re: NSNotifications & background apps?

FROM : Nathan Kinsinger
DATE : Sat Jun 14 23:27:49 2008

On Jun 14, 2008, at 1:52 PM, dream cat7 wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Seeing notifications from outside:
> ==========================
> There was a great logging tool called "Meow" for the nsnotifications 
> but i cannot seem to find that anymore. I had hoped to write a D-
> Trace probe to give a similar output as "Meow" but support for cocoa 
> objects like NSString. In instruments it is not showing the obj-c 
> data passed in the function parameters, only the names of the obj-c 
> function which appears on the stack. I wish i had kept a copy of 
> Meow tool. Sometimes it is useful to see the nsnotification 
> communications separately from xcode. Sometimes 2 process are 
> communicating And one of them is launching / closing multiple times 
> during the session (e.g. sending kill message as NSNotification).


I haven't seen "Meow" but there is a Notification Watcher project 
(with source) at:
http://www.tildesoft.com/Programs.html

It may do what you need, or you could extend it to do so.

--Nathan