Ivan C Myrvold wrote on 2008-06-18 13:07:50: > I have developed a daemon that have an Objective-C class > "ApplicationWatcher" which checks the foreground applications with > NSWorkspace. > > In my main I create the ApplicationWatcher, and the class starts an > NSTimer. > This is probably a stupid question, but I want the daemon to continue > running, but at the end of main the daemon quit, even if I have an > NSTimer running. > So what should I do in main to have the daemon running? > > In an ordinary Cocoa application the main contains "return > NSApplicationMain(argc, (const char **) argv);", but as this is a > daemon I can't call this. >
The bit of NSApplicationMain() which you need to replicate is the run loop. Timers get scheduled in run loops. Have a look at the NSRunLoop documentation (you probably want [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] run]). Cheers, Graham. -- Graham Lee Senior Macintosh Software Engineer, Sophos Tel: 01235 540266 (Direct) Web: http://www.sophos.com Sophos - Security and Control Sophos Plc, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, United Kingdom. Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 348 3873 20. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
