Hi Peter
Thanks for the tips. I ended up finding that yes the Service was
appearing but in Finder only. I think the main confusion was between
the steps of having the service appear in the menu and the service
menu item being enabled or not. It looks like a trick to simply
appear is, for some apps (like in Pasteboard Peeker example) to
declare NSStringPboardType.
Best
laurent
On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
Hi Laurent,
There are a number of reasons why your Service may not appear in the
menu. Off the top of my head:
1) Your send and receive types may not be handleable by anything in
the app. In particular, NSFilenamesPboardType is not vended by
NSTextView, so I would expect your Service to appear in the Finder,
but not other places. Did you check in the Finder?
2) Your Info.plist may be malformed. On Leopard, I don't think
there's any indication of this - it will just silently fail. plutil
can check for syntax errors, but I don't think there's any way to
look for e.g. a dictionary where there should be an array, on Leopard.
3) LaunchServices may be picking up a different version of your app
than you expect. If multiple apps with the same bundle ID all try
to vend Services, only one will win. Ensure there's no other copies
of your app on the boot volume.
4) Your app may not have been found by LaunchServices at all.
Launching it from the Finder will ensure it gets registered.
5) pbs may not have run. Logging out and back in should make it run
again.
As Malcolm says, if you have access to the SnowLeopard seed, you'll
find that Services easier to debug, with the 10.6 version of
Services documentation describing debugging techniques.
On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Laurent Cerveau wrote:
Simply retrying to see if there could be any idea on this one as I
still have trouble getting success
Thanks for the help
laurent
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