I should make it clear, this is a Mac OS X application.
Nathan Day On 14 Nov, 2017, at 01:43 PM, Nathan Day <nathan_...@mac.com> wrote: I have a background process that uses an NSTimer that is set to fire every minute, but when the computer is inactive for a while it will stop firing, its not until someone interacts with the computer the timer will start firing again. The timer is added to the main NSRunLoop, maybe the NSRunLoop needs to be kept active by user interaction, the background app has a status menu bar item to provide feedback when its active and provide a simple menu for basic user control. I have checked "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" in Energy Saver, I have also tried setting "Turn display off after" to never but it doesn't make a difference, these are things we can control on the users machines because it runs on company computers. The background app is kept alive by launchd as a User Agent and looks for new resources to be downloaded periodically, it needs to start downloading these resources not to long after they are available, they can take hours to download in some case, and they need to be available when the user returns to their computer. There is also a foreground app that talks to the background app to display the downloaded resources, a bit like iTunes and iTunes Helper. Nathan Day _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/nathan_day%40mac.com This email sent to nathan_...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
