[Phure]

Hi!

I'm working on making my Application (manThor) a service right now.

It registers as a service and it is launched, when I select it from another cocoa app. But after that happens manThor doesn't do anything and the requesting app hangs(beachball). Has anyone experienced this before?

This happens even when I do not do anything inside "doSearchService". I believe it has something to do with the info.plist, which contains this:

<key>NSServices</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>NSMenuItem</key>
<dict>
<key>default</key>
<string>Show with manThor</string>
</dict>
<key>NSMessage</key>
<string>doSearchService</string>
<key>NSPortName</key>
<string>manThor</string>
<key>NSSendTypes</key>
<array>
<string>NSStringPboardType&lt ;/string>
</array>
<key>NSUserData</key>
<string>0</string>
</dict>
</array>

PLEASE help me

regards
Stefan

[ali]

Is your service implemented as:

- (void)doSearchServiceNSPasteboard *)pboard userDataNSString *)data errorNSString **)error {
...
}

Did you specify your service provider?

[NSApp setServicesProvider:objectProvidingService];

(You could do this in applicationDidFinishLaunching:, for instance.)

You can run in the debugger and see if your service is getting called.

Ali

[Phure]

Whow!
I found the problem, I placed [NSApp setServicesProvider bjectProvidingService]; in applicationDidFinishLaunching:, but I accessed interface elements - which were loaded from the nib file. After moving [NSApp setServicesProvider bjectProvidingService]; to awakeFromNib it suddenly started working.