Re: Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-16 Thread Lightning Duck
Thanks, all, for the advice and the pointers Take care, Jay On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Lightning Duck wrote: > >> I need to make an application that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will. >> Not in the sense of running from the "Service

Re: Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Ammon
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Lightning Duck wrote: > I need to make an application that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will. > Not in the sense of running from the "Services" menu but something the tuns > continually in the background with an Icon in the Dock or a Window of it's > own, tha

Re: Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-15 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Lightning Duck wrote: > I need to make an application  that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will.   > Not in the sense of running from the "Services" menu but something the tuns > continually in the background with an Icon in the Dock or a Window of it's > own,

Re: Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-15 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2010 Jun 15, at 14:56, Lightning Duck wrote: > Monitor the contents of a directory Either a Kernel Queue or FSEvents. Read this: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/FSEvents_ProgGuide/KernelQueues/KernelQueues.html > Run without visibility? Start by read

Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-15 Thread Lightning Duck
I need to make an application that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will. Not in the sense of running from the "Services" menu but something the tuns continually in the background with an Icon in the Dock or a Window of it's own, that monitors when files are added or removed from a directory