Peter;
Thanks for the response!
Launched on demand based on the Service specifications in Info.plist
- there that's a big conceptual milestone! Thank-you!!
(I wish that was written down somewhere I could find...)
So for a stand-alone service should we -terminate after each call?
Here's how I'm installing the .service:
servicesFolderPath =
[[NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory,
NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0]
stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Services"];
if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:servicesFolderPath]) {
[fileManager createDirectoryAtPath:servicesFolderPath
attributes:nil];
}
srcPath = [[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]
pathForResource:@"MyService" ofType:@"service"];
destPath = [servicesFolderPath
stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"MyService.service"];
if ( ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:srcPath]) && (![fileManager
fileExistsAtPath:destPath]) ) {
[fileManager copyPath:srcPath toPath:destPath handler:nil];
NSUpdateDynamicServices();
} else {
if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:srcPath]) {
_WDIfV NSLog(@"MyService.service - Payload Not
Located.");
} else {
_WDIfV NSLog(@"MyService.service was already
installed.");
}
}
Nothing appears in the Service menu on Leopard EVER, even after re-
logging in.
What I observe is that on Tiger, after installing as above, the next
time I launch any application its Service menu DOES include my item...
Here's the Info.plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
<string>NSApplication</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.mycompany.myService</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.0.0</string>
<key>LSBackgroundOnly</key>
<true/>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>MyIcony</string>
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>Version 1.0, Copyright © 2009 My Company. All rights
reserved.</string>
<key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
<string>Copyright © 2009, My Company.
All rights reserved.</string>
<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
<string>10.4</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>MyService</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>MyService</string>
<key>NSServices</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>NSMessage</key>
<string>myServiceMethod</string>
<key>NSPortName</key>
<string>MyService</string>
<key>NSMenuItem</key>
<dict>
<key>Menu item title</key>
<string>MyService</string>
</dict>
<key>NSSendTypes</key>
<array>
<string>NSStringPboardType</string>
<string>NSRTFPboardType</string>
</array>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
Hi Steve,
What appears in the Services menu is entirely determined by the
NSServices portion of your Info.plist. If you post that to the
list, we can look for any problems.
Your Service is launched on-demand when the user selects it from the
menu. Services may be background only, but do not have to be.
On Tiger and earlier, there is no way to avoid needing to log in and
out. On Leopard, you can use the function NSUpdateDynamicServices()
to immediately scan for new Services. If you're just testing, a
quick way to scan for new Services is to run pbs directly:
/System/Library/CoreServices/pbs
However, pbs has no supported public interface and this will (has
already) change, so don't include any reference to pbs in a script.
NSUpdateDynamicServices() is the right way to programmatically
refresh Services.
-Peter
On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Steve Cronin wrote:
Well, sheesh - that's embarrassing! There is no 'self' until init
- I know that! Ugh.
However, that doesn't change my end result!
I never see anything on the Services menu nor anything from the
NSLog statements shown below.
(Even when I double-click on the .service file; after whcih I CAN
see it in the process list in Activity monitor but still no log
messages)
Logging out and back in doesn't make my service name appear on the
Service menu...
This is on a 10.5.6 system using a Release build which has been
placed in ~/Library/Services.
SO my basic questions still stand:
What event/conditions launches a .service which resides in ~/
Library/Services?
Should/must .service files be 'Background Only'?
Am I missing something basic in my setup here -
I have only a Info.plist and 1 .h (NSObject) and 2 . m files (main
and MyService) and no .xib?
Other than the 'wrapper' settings are there other compiler settings
required for this setup?
I have only 2 steps in my build process: 'Compile Source (2)' and
'Link Binary w/ Lib (1)' [Cocoa]
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