Background app in OSX.3?

[Terry Judd]

Briian Yennie wrote:

> Er, I think I've got it.
> Apparently in Panther, this information is cached. Try this:
>
> http://cocoa.mamasam.com/MACOSXDEV/2003/11/1/76192.php
>
> Which suggests to "touch" your application bundle after you change the 
> plist file.
> In terminal:
>
> cd /Applications
> touch MyApplication.app
>
> So use LSUIelement as usual, but you gotta trick the OS into seeing 
> your change.
> It may also work to drag things in and out of your applications 
> folder, but the above seems more likely to work to me...
>
> HTH.
> Brian

Then Ken Ray wrote:
>
> Cool... it looks like if you set LSBackgroundOnly (instead of the old
> "NSBGonly") it should work.  Terry, why don't you try it and get back 
> to us?

OK, I don't have Panther at home (10.2.8 - but then nothing was working 
here either). So I tried setting LSUIelement and 'touching' the 
applications folder as suggest by Brian with no effect. However, 
LSBackgroundOnly (+ touch) does work on 10.2.8 (things are looking up) 
but I won't be able to test on Panther until Monday (NB it didn't work 
when I tried it yesterday but then we didn't know about the touch 
trick).

I'll keep you informed.

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers,

Terry...