Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-28 Thread Carl Harris
My app does some processing at quit time that can take a few minutes, so I thought it would be nice to remove the gui from the user¹s attention I deal with a similar situation by using a helper application, configured as a launch agent. The helper program is configured to be launched auto

Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread Greg Guerin
Michael Dautermann wrote: Is this work you could do with a non-GUI tool that launches as the app quits? Unix style tools or apps (the kind one can launch from the Terminal command line) don't have dock icons nor do they appear in the command-tab list. You'd still have other potential issu

Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread I. Savant
On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Andy Lee wrote: You could put the progress indicator in the Dock icon, thus allowing the user the option to hide the app themselves if they want. A good alternative. Parallels has an hourglass that runs while it "sleeps" a running VM. -- I.S.

Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:16:33 -0400, Michael Domino said: >Hello, > >My app does some processing at quit time that can take a few minutes, so I >thought it would be nice to remove the gui from the user¹s attention so they >don¹t think they can still interact with the program just because there is a

Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Lee
On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:24 PM, I. Savant wrote: On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Michael Domino wrote: My app does some processing at quit time that can take a few minutes, so I thought it would be nice to remove the gui from the user’s attention so they don’t think they can still interact with

Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread Michael Dautermann
>My app does some processing at quit time that can take a few minutes, so I >thought it would be nice to remove the gui from the user¹s attention so they >don¹t think they can still interact with the program just because there is a >window and a menu visible. So, I hide the main window and the men

Re: Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread I. Savant
On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Michael Domino wrote: My app does some processing at quit time that can take a few minutes, so I thought it would be nice to remove the gui from the user’s attention so they don’t think they can still interact with the program just because there is a window and

Hiding a running application

2009-06-26 Thread Michael Domino
Hello, My app does some processing at quit time that can take a few minutes, so I thought it would be nice to remove the gui from the user¹s attention so they don¹t think they can still interact with the program just because there is a window and a menu visible. So, I hide the main window and the