Re: Creating PDF reports

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 27.02.2013 um 05:07 schrieb Germán "A. Arias" <address@hidden>:

> 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.