Re: Notifying applications

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 21 Feb 2008, at 15:05, Andreas Höschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a special problem. A foreign non-GNUstep application  
> (actually Star Office) is currently been modified to call a script  
> whenever a user saves a file. I would like to use this to trigger an  
> action in a GNUstep application (grab the Star Office file from the  
> temporary directory and store it in a database).
>
> The question is, how can a script (GNUstep tool) send a notification  
> to a GNUstep application? I used tcp sockets so far for IPC but this  
> does not seem to be appropriate in this case. Any ideas?

You can have a tool send a notification via the distributed  
notification system ... see base/Testing/nsnotification.m for code  
which does that.