Re: a window for a tool

[Chris B . Vetter]

On Tue, 21 May 2002 13:34:04 -0600
Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:
> Well you ought to be able to just get the sharedApplication object 
> (which makes the 'connection' to the window server), then start up your 
> own runloop which will receive and process events (see NSApplication for 
> examples). This should not start up anything else unless it's absolutely 
> needed - although I woundn't expect to be able to do any more than throw 
> up an alert panel or something similer.
> I haven't actually tried this, but if it doesn't work that way, one 
> could reasonably consider it a bug (patches *happily* accepted).

I added -lgnustep-gui in GNUmakefile.preamble and made a call ala

int main(int argc, STR *argv, STR *envp)
{
  // var declarations

  [NSApplication sharedApplication];

  // my stuff

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

And bingo! It works.
However, I *know* I tried that before, and it didn't work then.

-- 
Chris