[Douglashh]

Who is responsible for the Services Menu working correctly? The application you are in and trying to use the Services Menu or the recipient application? Or Possibly OS X itself?

I'm using GraphicConverter to open images. Under the Services Menu it shows another application I use, Portraits & Prints, to add the image to P&P catalog. This doesn't work, nothing happens when I try to add the image I'm viewing in GC to the P&P Catalog.

If I have an image in Safari and go to the Services Menu to add the image to P&P it works fine.

So which application is responsible for getting Services to work correctly?

[Chuckit]

Both are. The active app is responsible for determining what services can be invoked and sending the appropriate data and the service provider is responsible for processing the data and optionally sending data back.

[BuonRotto]

Cocoa apps automatically handle services. Carbon apps require more effort by the app developer. Most Carbon apps suck lemons when it comes to Services support. Some of that is probably due to problems in Apple's implementation, and some has to do with these apps' developers not giving a damn.

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by BuonRotto:
Cocoa apps automatically handle services.

Just to be clear, the standard Cocoa view classes are automatically set up to handle services. Developers creating their own views have to specifically code in support. (I say this just because there are already enough people who think Cocoa is somehow magic.)