Re: Connecting to applications

[Stefan Böhringer]

Under OPENSTEP there used to be a mechanism to have arbitrary bundles
loaded into all Applications launched. Such a bundle could of course
expose key application objects via DO.

I'm ignorant as to whether Cocoa advertises a similar mechanism and
GNUstep doesn't as far as I can tell.

Best wishes,

        Stefan

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 17:43, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to create 'Common scripting environment', where you can tie 
> applications and their abilities together to complete your task. See
> 
> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Scriptable%20Environments
> 
>  From applications point of view: To be able to do this, applications have to 
> advertise public methods and objects. From script point of view: Users need 
> to connect to the application.
> 
> The later thing needs to be implemented in steptalk. My question is, that 
> whether there is a clean way of connecting to an application? What i want is 
> to launch an application if it is not running and connect to the running 
> application. By connecting I mean to get distant object proxy for the 
> application (some well defined object).
> 
> I have seen, that there is -[NSWorkspace _connectApplication:] and this 
> method seems to be what i want. Is it possible to document its behaviour and 
> make it public as an GNUstep extension?
> 
> Stefan