Re: Faceless background app that uses NSAppleScript

[Jason Coco]

On Oct 16, 2008, at 13:15 , Scott Ribe wrote:

I need to write an app whose purpose is to drive other apps, using

least NSRunLoop event processing; I wonder if it might also need an
NSApplication around.


event handling, in that what looks like a blocking synchronous call

while it's waiting for a response.

And if it's too much of a pain in the neck, I'll just live with what I

a "Quit" menu item ;-)

NSAppleScript. No UI is needed. But I'm unclear on what kind of environment needs to be set up in order for NSAppleScript to work. I suspect it needs at Past use of NSAppleScript has revealed that it's somewhat "quirky" about (executeAndReturnError), seems to allow the event loop to keep processing already know how to do easily: a "GUI" that consists of a status window and

ever had a need to).

HTH, Jason

Add the LSUIElement key to the Info.plist and it will launch without a dock icon or a menu. You can then safely call [NSApplication sharedApplication] from within your application to connect to the window server (so you can use AppKit and other frameworks). Then just do [NSApp run] to start the run loop and the event loop and treat it like normal... no need to create a window (although you could load one if you

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