-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/10 5:27 PM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > Hello! > I have to write an application, that should run on the background. > When the user needs, it should display some control panel. On Windows > system i would have used System tray, and an icon there - when the > user clicks on that icon, it displays some GUI. but what is the Mac's > usual practice? I am thinking that the analog to that tray application > is an agent, launched by launchd. On what event it is considered to be > good to trigger that "control panel"? > All i could think of - is installing a global event tap (but i need > accessibility Enabled then all the time - it is neither a good idea) > and watch some Shortcut pressed on a keyboard.
If I'm understanding what you are asking, why not put an icon in the menu bar? I'm referring to the icon(s) to the left of the clock, e.g. volume, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. The pertinent classes are NSStatusItem and NSStatusBar. (Be sure to read the usability notes in the latter.) Several applications use this for what I think you describe. (I currently have NSStatusItems from Tweetie, Dropbox, and Growl.) > Another idea was to create an item in "System preferences" (but, could > it be done? And how?). See NSPreferencePane, probably by way its associated Programming Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/PreferencePanes.html > And where should I install that application? Installing in > /Applications doesn't seem to be nice, because it's not really a > full-gui applicatlion, It's rather some kind of background system > helper. I will let someone more experienced in these matters address this issue; I will note that Dropbox, Google Notifier, and QuickSilver all fit your general description and are all in Applications. This does not mean you won't have a LaunchDaemon or the like to get things going as well. - -- Conrad Shultz Synthetiq Solutions www.synthetiqsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFM4zPQaOlrz5+0JdURAntiAJ4sWnl2v+q+XnWKCW+nA814hFj6uACeMG9M UMwDLojEyKX8vBWQ+fDojxE= =XDYe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
