Build a faceless background application

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[edit] On Mac OS X

To build a faceless background application, i.e. an application which has no window/menu and no icon in the Dock:

1. Set the App.DefaultWindow and App.Menubar to none
2. Remove (or comment out) any code that would display a window or the menubar
3. Build the application
4. Edit the Info.plist file:
   • Control-click on the application icon and select Show bundle content
   • Inside the Contents folder you will find the Info.plist file
   • Open the file with Property List Editor
   • Add the property LSBackgroundOnly of type string and set the value to "1"

[edit] See also

• Runtime configuration guidelines from Apple (accessed 2008-03-08)

[edit] On Windows and Linux

To build an equivalent application for Windows and Linux, it is necessary to add the following code to the App.Open event handler

app.AutoQuit = False

Since there is no Info.plist, there is no need to edit anything after compiling