On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > >> How does one receive notifications from 10.8's new system-wide Notification >> Center? Is there a framework that allows a Cocoa program to receive system >> notifications, i.e., the ones that show automatically in the upper right >> hand of the screen? > > No, it’s the other way around — Notification Center is for apps to _send_ > notifications to, not receive them. The notifications are purely for the user > to see.
Tantalizing, to be able to see them and not act on them programmatically. > > There are several existing mechanisms like NSDistributedNotification, > NSWorkspace and kqueues for getting programmatic notifications of things > outside your process. Is there something specific you want to be notified of? Lots of applications come to mind, if such a mechanism were available. To be able to know when a certain song is playing in iTunes Radio and crank up the volume, or to send out a text/email/tweet when certain notifications are posted, etc. I would think this would be Generally Useful. Wish there were a way... - Carl _______________________________________________ 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
