On 19/05/2008, at 9:39 PM, ninad walvekar wrote:
hi,
Thank you for the reply regarding background application.
I have few more queries:-
1. Can the same application which is now running in the background
be made to work as a normal gui application?
It depends what you want your "normal GUI application to do".
LSUIElement applications don't have a menu bar or a dock icon, but can
have windows etc. For the application that I've written using this,
no menu bar wasn't a problem, but no dock icon was a bit annoying. It
depends what you want your application to do.
As far as I know, you can't change the LSUIElement setting for an
application at run-time, so if you need a menu bar this isn't going to
work for you.
I want to make an application run in the background at login and
then make it visible to user when the user wants it to run.
Running at login isn't a problem. "Making it visible when the user
wants it to run" might be more of a challenge to design a user
interface for.
The alternate design is to have a background-only application which is
launched at startup, and a separate GUI application. Without knowing
more about your application, I don't know whether you would need to
pass any data between these which of course is a bit more complex than
a single application.
Cheers,
Brett
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