advice on background process

2009-06-14 Thread Rick C.
hello, my project is fairly small and it monitors via notification certain directories for changes. ideally the app would always run so that it would always monitor. but i would like to make it so the icon could be hidden and my understanding is that LSUIElement always hides the menubar as we

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Rick C. wrote: > hello, > > my project is fairly small and it monitors via notification certain > directories for changes.  ideally the app would always run so that it would > always monitor.  but i would like to make it so the icon could be hidden and > my under

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-14 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 Jun 14, at 09:48, Michael Ash wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Rick C. wrote: my project is fairly small and it monitors via notification certain directories for changes. The most obvious way to do this would be to just have two applications. One is an LSUIElement which doe

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-15 Thread Rick C.
a-dev Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:01:06 AM Subject: Re: advice on background process On 2009 Jun 14, at 09:48, Michael Ash wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Rick C. wrote: >> my project is fairly small and it monitors via notification certain >> directories for ch

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-17 Thread Rick C.
gain for the input, rick From: Jerry Krinock To: cocoa-dev Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:01:06 AM Subject: Re: advice on background process On 2009 Jun 14, at 09:48, Michael Ash wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Rick C. wrote: >> my project is fairly small and it

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-17 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 Jun 17, at 05:58, Rick C. wrote: the launchd task can tell me if there was a change but it seems there's no way to find out what that change was right? Yes. it seems i could use this to launch my app but then if i have no way to screen what the changes might be then i would have t

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-18 Thread Rick C.
11:56:10 PM Subject: Re: advice on background process On 2009 Jun 17, at 05:58, Rick C. wrote: > the launchd task can tell me if there was a change but it seems there's no > way to find out what that change was right? Yes. > it seems i could use this to launch my app but then if i

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-18 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 Jun 18, at 06:42, Rick C. wrote: thanks again. yes after reviewing everything that would seem to be the best way to go for me. am i on the right track thinking i could write a foundation tool maybe using fsevents to screen the changes of a directory and then if necessary pass alo

Re: advice on background process

2009-06-19 Thread Rick C.
riday, June 19, 2009 5:23:55 AM Subject: Re: advice on background process On 2009 Jun 18, at 06:42, Rick C. wrote: > thanks again. yes after reviewing everything that would seem to be the best > way to go for me. am i on the right track thinking i could write a > foundation tool maybe usi