Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-04-08 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: On Apr 7, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: I really appreciate all of your help. I gave your suggestion a shot and I've run into problems. Here's what happens. 1. I

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-04-07 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Mar 30, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: 2. What is the best way to implement it? Put your CoreData code into a framework shared by your applications. And use distributed notifications to keep the applications in sync.

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-04-07 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: I really appreciate all of your help. I gave your suggestion a shot and I've run into problems. Here's what happens. 1. I create a new NSManagedObject in my main application. It gets inserted into the context. 2. I save the

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-04-07 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Apr 7, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: I really appreciate all of your help. I gave your suggestion a shot and I've run into problems. Here's what happens. 1. I create a new NSManagedObject in my main application. It

Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-03-30 Thread Carter R. Harrison
I'm working on a Mac Application that will have a helper application that is always running in the background (even if the main application is not currently running). Currently the main application uses Core Data to manage persistent objects. I'd like to setup the helper application to be

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: I'm working on a Mac Application that will have a helper application that is always running in the background (even if the main application is not currently running). Currently the main application uses Core Data to manage persistent

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-03-30 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Mar 30, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: I'm working on a Mac Application that will have a helper application that is always running in the background (even if the main application is not currently running). Currently the

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: 2. What is the best way to implement it? Put your CoreData code into a framework shared by your applications. And use distributed notifications to keep the applications in sync. So when one application saves the data store, then

Re: Two Applications Sharing Same Core Data Database

2011-03-30 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2011 Mar 30, at 13:09, Nick Zitzmann wrote: Something like that. Or you can send a notification containing the IDs of the managed objects that were changed in the other app, and have your handler re-fault its managed objects if necessary so that it'll have the latest information when