On 11 Apr 2010, at 15:52, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:14 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > >> My questions are: >> >> 1. Presumably I have to target a fully fledged application bundle and cannot >> somehow route my AE requests to the foundation tool itself. >> >> 2. Can I embed the helper app in the main app bundle and engineer some way >> for AppleScript to be able to target it? >> I seem to remember reading something about app bundles enclosed with other >> apps but cannot recall it. >> I don't really want to have two external app bundles. >> >> 3.When configuring a Cocoa app to behave like Image events.app is it >> sufficient just to declare LSBackgroundOnly = "1" in the info.plist? > > > My PreFab UI Actions product consists of a standard application with a > full-fledged GUI, plus a scriptable "faceless background application" (FBA). > The FBA acts somewhat like a traditional scripting addition (OSAX), but it is > actually a standard Cocoa application package with LSUIElement = 1. Because > the FBA serves the same overall purpose as a scripting addition, my main > application installs it in the user or local ScriptingAdditions folder. The > main application gives the user an option to launch the FBA every time the > computer starts up, and of course the FBA is automatically launched any time > an AppleScript 'tell' command is directed to it. > > I use LSUIElement = 1 to keep the FBA out of the Dock, etc. I do NOT use > LSBackgroundOnly = 1, because I want the FBA to be able to present an alert > from time to time, and when I do that I bring it to the front for easy user > input. > > This is a fairly common pattern. > Thanks Bill.
This explains the presence of Keychain Scripting.app in /system/library/scripting additions. I presume that your FBA is included in your main app bundle as a resource and exported to ~/library/scripting additions as necessary. Regards Jonathan Mitchell Developer http://www.mugginsoft.com_______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
