On Jan 8, 2015, at 5:20 PM, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Andrew Keller <and...@kellerfarm.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to receive machine sleep and wake notifications in my daemon.  
>> In my Cocoa GUI application, I was able to easily follow the sample code 
>> under Listing 1 on the page 
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1340/_index.html>, but when I 
>> tried the same approach in my daemon, I received no errors or warnings from 
>> Xcode or in the system console, and yet the handlers also did not fire.  
>> After poking around for a while, I have a hunch that it may have something 
>> to do with the main event queue not being the same (or existing at all?) in 
>> a non-Cocoa GUI application.
>> 
>> Is it possible to have a Cocoa-style event queue in a daemon, or is there 
>> another way to receive machine sleep and wake notifications from the OS in a 
>> daemon?
> 
> Did you read further down that QA article you linked to listings 3 and 4?

Yes.  It looks very promising, but on the first try, I wasn't able to keep the 
run loop running (it exited immediately).  I suspect that the problem has to do 
with the run loop not having any input sources.  I'm currently in the middle of 
<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/RunLoopManagement/RunLoopManagement.html>,
 where it's explaining how to create run loop sources.  I'm learning quite a 
lot here, but that also means that progress is very slow at the moment.  I 
figured it would hurt to ping the list to see if there was a simpler solution 
or perhaps documentation more specialized to my objective.

Also, I have a feeling that there may be something missing conceptually.  
Suppose I do manage to keep the run loop running using a new input source.  How 
do the OS and the application frameworks know to route the notification there?  
I suspect that some additional object registration may be needed to make the 
run loop handle the events, or it might be a very specific input source I don't 
know about yet...

Thanks,
 - Andrew Keller


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