On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:09 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:

> Re: Login item not hidden

> My app should execute several tasks fired by several timers. Actually the
> app must remain open in order to fire the timers, and this is not what my
> client wants. He wants the tasks run as hidden. No one should be able to see
> the app or interact with it. So please which is the best way to do:
>    - launch my app as hidden at a given time (I have a list of timers)
>    - do a task
>    - quit
> 
> At the same time, the client want to double click on the app and use it
> normally, executing the task manually. I get puzzled here.
> Any idea?

Make the task itself a separate Foundation command-line tool, invoked at login 
by whatever means you desire, that can be manually controlled by the GUI via 
any of the available IPC technologies.


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