Mac OS X - monitor app launch?

I want to write a simple menubar app for Mac OS X. The user will only want to use that app when Safari is opened. To not clutter the menubar unnecessarily, I want to hide and show the menubar icon depending on whether Safari is open or not.

Is there maybe some notification that my app could register for? The only workaround开发者_运维技巧 I can imagine is poll the running processes and see if Safari is launched, but that doesn't seem to be an elegant way to solve my problem...

NSWorkspaceDidLaunchApplicationNotification and NSWorkspaceDidTerminateApplicationNotification. (There are equivalent Carbon Events.)

Use kEventAppFrontSwitched in Carbon Event Manager to get notifications when another application becomes active.

Use this code: http://cl.ly/2LbB

// usleep(40500);

ProcessNotif * x = [[ProcessNotif new] autorelease];
[x setProcessName: @"Safari"];
[x setTarget: self];
[x setAction: @selector(doStuff)];
[x start];

This will run the selector -doStuff when Safari runs. If you get an error, uncomment the usleep() line.

Got same problem, but thanks to JWWalker, documentation and google wrote this code:

// i need to register on button event, you can do it even in applicationDidFinishLaunching
- (IBAction)Btn_LoginAction:(id)sender {
    ...
    NSNotificationCenter *center = [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] notificationCenter];
    [center addObserver:self selector:@selector(appLaunched:) name:NSWorkspaceDidLaunchApplicationNotification object:nil];
    [center addObserver:self selector:@selector(appTerminated:) name:NSWorkspaceDidTerminateApplicationNotification object:nil];
}

// remember to unregister
- (void)ManageLogout:(NSInteger)aResult {
    ...
    NSNotificationCenter *center = [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] notificationCenter];
    [center removeObserver:self name:NSWorkspaceDidLaunchApplicationNotification object:nil];
    [center removeObserver:self name:NSWorkspaceDidTerminateApplicationNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)appLaunched:(NSNotification *)note {
    [GTMLogger myLog:kGTMLoggerLevelDebug fmt:@"MainWinDelegate::appLaunched: %@ (%@)\n", [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSApplicationBundleIdentifier"], [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSApplicationProcessIdentifier"]];

    if ( [[[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSApplicationBundleIdentifier"] isEqualToString:@"app.you.monitor.bundle.identifier"] ) {
        // do stuff
    }
}

- (void)appTerminated:(NSNotification *)note {
    [GTMLogger myLog:kGTMLoggerLevelDebug fmt:@"MainWinDelegate::appTerminated: %@ (%@)\n", [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSApplicationBundleIdentifier"], [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSApplicationProcessIdentifier"]];

    if ( [[[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSApplicationBundleIdentifier"] isEqualToString:@"app.you.monitor.bundle.identifier"] ) {
        // do stuff
    }
}