Any way to create a Mac LC background app?

[Richard Miller]

Thanks, Richard. I think this approach will do it... if only I knew more 
about implementing it! I'll read about cron's and try to figure it out. 
If anyone can offer a bit more guidance, that would be great.

Very much appreciated.




On 3/12/14 5:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Your app could use the shell function to set up a cron job, and once 
> that's in place it could handle command line arguments so it can be 
> called with -ui to run facelessly.
>
> When run with -ui, the environment() function will return "command 
> line", so you can use a startup handler to determine if it's been 
> launched from the command line, and if so check the value of $# to get 
> the number of arguments passed to it so you can parse them out as #1, 
> #2, etc.
>
> For cron:
> <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001020700163714>
>
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>
> Richard Miller wrote:
>
> > What I need is a way to have a Mac LC (desktop) app run once every 12
> > hours, complete a brief 15-second routine, shut down, then repeat
> > every 12 hours... all without user interaction.
> >
> > On 3/12/14 3:52 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
> >> Is there any way for a LC app to run in the background on a Mac, so
> >> the user won't see it listed when they cycle through their open
> >> programs? I know how to make it invisible, but it still shows up
> >> when you Apple Key-Tab through running apps.
>
>
>
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