Re: Creating PDF reports

[Steven LeMaire]

I tried adding the [NSApplication sharedApplication] but when I run the program 
with that in the code, it attempts to connect to a X server (which there is 
none in this case) and ends.

For the NEEDS_GUI=YES, do I just plug that anywhere in the makefile ?

thsnks !


On 2013-02-27, at 3:10 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

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> Am 27.02.2013 um 05:07 schrieb Germán "A. Arias" <address@hidden>:
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>> El mar, 26-02-2013 a las 22:04 -0500, Steven LeMaire escribió:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>> 
>>> I'm looking at writing a simple program that will run scheduled on a 
>>> server, which will query a database and using the results, generate a PDF 
>>> report to be emailed to some users. I'm not too sure how I should go about 
>>> doing this, my first attempt at this was to write a tool that creates an 
>>> NSTextView, and simply inserts the text into it. It would then use the 
>>> NSPrintOperation PDFOperationWithTextView method to create an NSMutableData 
>>> object, which could them be written to a file.
>>> 
>>> The problem I'm having now is, it requires AppKit, so I'm building with 
>>> application.make included in my makefile, but it then is complaining 
>>> there's no shared application object.
>>> Basically, I don't want a graphical interface, so I'm not sure where to go 
>>> from here.
>>> 
>>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Steven
>>> 
>> 
>> Make a tool instead an app. You only need add in GNUmakefile:
>> 
>> NEEDS_GUI = YES
> 
> That wont help much. What you need to do is initialize the application. Just 
> add [NSApplication sharedApplication] somewhere in your code before you use 
> any of the other gui classes.
>