As I said, "there is a time when it needs to be in the foreground."

But thanks.

BMichael@... wrote:
> 
> >I am making a little app that Filemaker opens with an apple event, and some
> >data gets passed in the clipboard that the little app then uses to make some
> >thermal labels and send em down the serial port. So far so good.
> >
> >What I'd like is for the little app to hide itself when it's done. There is a
> >time when it needs to be in the foreground, but after that, I want it to
> >remove itself from active duty, interface guidelines be damned! (hehe)
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "needs to be in the foreground"...
> but if there aren't any windows or user-input involved, I'd make this a
> "background-only application", I believe that's type "APPC" instead of
> "APPL". Then it'll _never_ be in the foreground, or visible in the
> applications menu, but it's still perfectly able to send/receive AE's,
> and write to the serial port... And it only "quits" when told to by an AE
> or at shutdown.
> 
> Haven't done one in FB, but I'd guess you'd have to use the
> "mini-runtime" to avoid the QuickDraw initialization the full runtime
> provides...
> 
> Bill
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