On 12 Dec 2009, at 01:10, briandunnington wrote: > i am a would-be Cocoa programmer and this sounds doable, but i did > have one design question - what type of 'app' should this be? i mean, > it probably doesnt need much (if any) UI, and doesnt need to show up > in the dock. it could be a menu item like GrowlMenu, but (at least in > the Windows world), people dont like too many icons cluttering up > their menu bar/task tray. what is the OSX equivalent of a simple UI- > less app that runs automatically on startup but is not even close to > something like a full fledged daemon? maybe it is just up to the user > to add it to their list of apps to run on startup?
I've been writing an app like that this week, currently it's a GUI-less full cocoa app. I've then been writing a prefpane wrapper to control it as a background app so it's moderately easy to install/start/stop from the end-user's POV. I'm still fairly new to the cocoa way though, so this may not be best, but if I was going to do this app I'd be tempted to do it the same way. The alternative is have it as a menu/dockless app, but when you double-click the app when it's already running it gives you a preferences window, complete with a quit button or something. C --- Caius Durling [email protected] +44 (0) 7960 268 100 http://caius.name/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
