On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Michael Thon wrote: > Yup, they're HTML, all right. Now I'm thinking of moving this code to a > separate command line app that I can call from the main application. It > should work, but I'm not sure if I'd need to provide a runloop for the HTML > importing to work.
The background tool will need to link against WebKit and AppKit, so it won’t be strictly-speaking ‘background’. You can mark its bundle with a special key (LSBackgroundOnly?) to keep it from showing up in the Dock or getting a menu-bar though. The bigger problem is how this tool sends results back to the main app. An NSAttributedString is an in-memory object, and the tool has a separate address space. I guess you could try archiving the string and sending back the data, but I’m not sure whether all the different attribute values used in parsed HTML are archivable. What do you use the attributed string for, if this is a background-only operation? Maybe there’s a less expensive way to accomplish it. —Jens _______________________________________________ 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
