Le 17 nov. 2010 à 05:21, John Joyce a écrit : > > On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM, eveningnick eveningnick < >> eveningn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello! >>> I have to write an application, that should run on the background. >>> When the user needs, it should display some control panel. On Windows >>> system i would have used System tray, and an icon there - when the >>> user clicks on that icon, it displays some GUI. but what is the Mac's >>> usual practice? I am thinking that the analog to that tray application >>> is an agent, launched by launchd. On what event it is considered to be >>> good to trigger that "control panel"? >> >> It depends on what you're writing. >> >> Don't use the status area (near the clock) just to provide access to your >> app. If you're writing a VPN client or something else whose status needs to >> be monitored continuously, the status area is a good place to put your UI: a >> status item with a menu that afford access to the app's >> configuration/preferences dialog. >> >> But don't use the status area for transient things. If you're writing a >> backup app, for example, and don't feel like burdening your users' status >> area with mundane "backups are happening" information, don't all of a sudden >> put UI to alert the user that something's gone wrong. But then how do you >> alert the user or let them configure things? >> >> If you have no configuration options (the only interaction you need in your >> background app is to alert the user) you can use the CFNotification API. If >> you *do* have configuration, then create an app that only configures things, >> and embed your background app as a helper tool inside this app wrapper. When >> you need to show UI, have your background app launch the main app that it's >> a part of. >> >> Alternatively, your main "app" could be a system preferences pane rather >> than a full-blown app. >> >> --Kyle Sluder
You can also consider the option Apple chosen with Spaces, Dashboard, and Expose. Deploy a real application bundle that launch this panel when double clic it. -- Jean-Daniel _______________________________________________ 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
