You actually can have a GUI application in the background, by setting
the following key in your Info.plist:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
Your application then doesn't get a menu bar and doesn't appear in the
Dock. Depending on what you want your app to do, this might be what
you want. This is referred to as an "Agent Application" -- details at:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/SoftwareDevelopment/chapter_7_section_6.html
(And on that issue it would be nice if there were a way of getting no
menu bar but still having a Dock icon, but that doesn't seem to be
possible.)
Cheers,
Brett
On 19/05/2008, at 6:44 PM, Hamish Allan wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:21 AM, ninad walvekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I have an existing GUI application and now i want to run that same
application in the background at startup and then when the user
wants to run
the application run it as a normal GUI application.The application
has been
built in Cocoa.Can anyone help me on this?
Hi Ninad,
You can't do that without re-writing parts of the application --
taking the parts you want to run in the background at startup and
re-implementing them as a daemon. (See
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html -- read it in
its entirety!)
Best wishes,
Hamish
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