Re: Services (Was: Re: Proper way of connecting to apps)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 12:27  pm, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Another one: what happens when there are two providers of service with 
> same name?
Looking at the code, and trying to remember the NeXTstep, OPENSTEP and 
Apple docs for services,

I think that this is not supposed to happen.   I guess that service 
names should be registered with a central
coordinating organisation (which was certainly supposed to be the case 
for file extensions used by apps).

Some services providing apps had many services, and to avoid conflict 
with service names from other apps, they used the appname/servicename 
syntax for their services ... this results in a submenu (whose name is 
appname) of the services menu, with all the services produced by the 
app being placed in the submenu.