Re: Detecting running application

[Chris B. Vetter]

On 5/11/06, Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> Oh sure ... I thought you meant using the DO name service code (as
> you mentioned using gdomap earlier) not just sending messages around.

I mentioned gdomap WRT to the launch of applications. I _thought_
gdomap was used to keep a registration of running applications back in
the old days.

[...]
> In the meantime you could, as a proof of concept, use the last path
> component of the bundle path rather than the full thing.

I used the full path name as returned by NSBundle-bundlePath as well
as an imaginary name (ok, ok, "foobar") as well as just the bundle
name (w/o a path). Neither got registered.  I also checked with
--GNU-Debug=NSMessagePort and noticed that the created port was always
registered with the application names.
That is /tmp/GNUstepSecure<id>/NSMessagePort/names/<app name> was
referring to .../ports/<pid>.x=

[...]
> Actually I would have thought it made sense to have it be an app/
> daemon rather than a loadable bundle.

Yes, but that was just an example.

[...]
> Well, I *sort* of see ... but it looks to me like the sort of
> functionality you are describing would make more sense as apps or
> daemons or as functionality provided as services than in bundles.

Absolutely.
But I never said I was working on a project that made any sense ;-)

> What about a simple background app built solely to run the
> bundles ... then you never need to worry about the bundles being
> loaded in multiple apps since there is only a single app loading them
> all.

However, the example (displaying images in background) as a bundle
could be used by a desktop manager as a 'plugin' -- no need to launch
another application/daemon then.

--
Chris