Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-15 Thread Lightning Duck
I need to make an application that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will. Not in the sense of running from the "Services" menu but something the tuns continually in the background with an Icon in the Dock or a Window of it's own, that monitors when files are added or removed from a directory

Re: Service without Icon or Window?

2010-06-16 Thread Lightning Duck
Thanks, all, for the advice and the pointers Take care, Jay On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Lightning Duck wrote: > >> I need to make an application that runs a bit as a 'service' if you will. >> Not i

iPad widget question

2011-02-26 Thread Lightning Duck
Hello, I have an iPad widget question (hence the subject) I need to make something like a 2D grid of icons where each icon is tappable. This seems like fairly obvious functionality but I don't see a widget that really supports that idea Thanks Take care, Jay __

Re: iPad widget question

2011-02-26 Thread Lightning Duck
That was actually very helpful simply because I didn't know about NSCollectionView or NSMatrix On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Dave DeLong wrote: > I'd start with AQGridView: https://github.com/AlanQuatermain/AQGridView > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On Feb 26, 2

Re: iPad widget question

2011-02-26 Thread Lightning Duck
Espresso > http://www.pixelespressoapps.com > > > On 27 Feb 2011, at 03:10, Lightning Duck wrote: > >> I need to make something like a 2D grid of icons where each icon is >> tappable. This seems like fairly obvious functionality but I don't

SourceView example

2010-02-04 Thread Lightning Duck
I'm fairly new to Cocoa development (although I've been writing software for more than 15 years). I'm working on an app for myself that needs a tree view so I'm looking through the SourceView example as a guide. I'm curious why the use of BaseNode versus ChildNode and why the code uses one in

Re: Guidance on use of Application Support folder

2010-02-12 Thread Lightning Duck
What has confused me about this is why does CoreDate store it's data in the Application Support folder be default then? On Feb 12, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Stuart Malin wrote: > I sorta would agree, Jens, and certainly many apps do put user-specific files > here, but the Apple docs specifically say t