Obj-C and Background/Daemon Application Question

Stephen Hoffman Hoff at HoffmanLabs.Com
Sun Feb 17 13:11:22 PST 2008


> From: Tom Jones <tjones at acworld.com>
>
> I'm looking for more information on how to create a Background/Daemon  
> application. I've been learning Obj-C and I really like it. I have  
> bought what books I can on the subject but none of them really cover  
> this subject.
>   
The following Daemons and Agents technical note might provide you with a 
starting point:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html

Objective C and Cocoa stuff usually doesn't run as an agent; Cocoa isn't 
considered appropriate.

You can see Cocoa used to build a UI tool to control the daemon or agent.



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