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I need to build an application on Mac OS X that runs on the background, windowless and provides a status icon in the top-right corner of the menu bar. It should launch on a specific action initiated by the user (not at system start up) and interact solely through the status bar icon.
On Windows this is very close to Services, on Unix – to daemons. What should i search for in Mac documentation? I just need a few keywords.
Nothing so strictly defined. Mac OS X considers the parts of your question to be separate concepts:
Having never programmed DOS or Windows, I have no idea what “resident” means to you. On Mac OS X, it simply means “in RAM”, which any running application at least partially is.