I’m on MacOS Mountain Lion: is there anything like a template to write a service for ML? I use Xcode 4.4.1
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I’m on MacOS Mountain Lion: is there anything like a template to write a service for ML? I use Xcode 4.4.1
The service, in generic terms is a unix daemon, that is, a binary file, executed in background.
You can use Xcode’s “command line” utility template to make such a daemon; you still need some means of staring it. In most of the cases, you’ll stick to launchd. Check the man page on launchd.plist(5) for more info.
Ok, on the “other” services thing. That are part of NSService, see the docs on Info.plist. You will need to make a “generic” Cocoa application, and then expose its services.
There is also a generic document on services here.