[Openmcl-devel] Application created with save-application: it is possible to reduce the time of the bouncing icon in Mac OS X Dock at the start?

[Renzo Orsini]

Ok, thanks, I’ll try the the settings.

Renzo

> On 12 Mar 2018, at 20:19 , R. Matthew Emerson <rme at acm.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 11, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Renzo Orsini <renzo.orsini at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I’ve created a no-console CCL application that starts a web server, open automatically the application home page, and then stop when the the user perform some action. Then I save this application on Mac OS X with save-application, prepending the kernel and producing a neat self-contained application bundle that can be runned by double clicking on it (I’m planning a future version for Windows and Linux).
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>> Everything works well, the only annoying thing is that in Mac OS X the application icon bounces on the dock when the application starts for two minutes, even after the initialization phase.
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>> I suppose it depends on the fact that the application does not terminates with the top-level function that I am using (that starts the web server and open the application page). I tried to different strategies inside this function: opened a socket with an “accept-connection” on it to terminate when a connection is done to the socket port, or perform a (read) (which does not return since the application does not read anything).
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>> So I am asking: can you think of some way of reducing the time the icon is bouncing in the dock? 
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> Are you making a Cocoa-based application? If so, there are a couple of Info.plist keys that might be helpful.
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> One is LSUIElement.  If this is true, then the app won't show in the dock, although the app can still come to the foreground and show a user interface.
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> The other is LSBackgroundOnly. This is used when you want to make a faceless background app.
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> If you are not using a Cocoa-based app, then I'm not too sure.  In order to make something double-clickable, I think you generally need to have it in an app bundle structure.
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> Some brief googling turns up https://github.com/subtleGradient/tilde-bin/blob/master/appify
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> This is a shell script that will create a minimal app bundle for a given program.  Maybe reading that will give you some ideas.