Time Machine Helpers

FROM : Omar Qazi
DATE : Thu Jun 19 22:09:30 2008

I want to enable my application to be able to display it's own 
interface when time machine opens, so that users can see what the data 
in the application looked like at that point in time, similar to the 
way applications like Mail and iPhoto display their interfaces in Time 
Machine.

I did a little digging, and found that Mail has an application called 
MailTimeMachineHelper inside it's bundle, but I don't see this bundle 
referenced under Info.plist or anything that would tell Time Machine 
to load this app.

Is there a key I have to add? Is this functionality hard-coded into 
Time Machine and only available in the iApps? Is this possible at all, 
because apple doesn't seem to have any documentation on it, and it 
seems like a useful thing to have in third party apps.

Omar Qazi
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