com.blocks.BLifecycle.lifecycle.markdown

Use this extension point if your plugin needs to get a callback at a particular stage in the application's lifecyle. These callbacks map to the standard NSApplication callbacks, except applicationMayTerminateNotification which will get called when the application is asked to terminate, but before anyone has a chance to cancel the terminate process, and applicationCancledTerminateNotification wich gets called if the terminate process is cancled. The reason for using these callbacks, as opposed to registering with NSNotificationCenter to get them is that by using these callbacks you plugin code doesn't need to get loaded until the moment that it is needed.

Examples:

In this configuration example the object returned by [MyController sharedInstance] will be sent callback messages at each stage of the application's lifecycle. This configuration markup should be added to the Plugin.xml file of the plugin that declares the MyController class.

<extension point="com.blocks.BLifecycle.lifecycle">
    <applicationLaunching class="MyController sharedInstance" />
    <applicationWillFinishLaunching class="MyController sharedInstance" />
    <applicationDidFinishLaunching class="MyController sharedInstance" />
    <applicationMayTerminateNotification class="MyController sharedInstance" />
    <applicationCancledTerminateNotification class="MyController sharedInstance" />
    <applicationWillTerminate class="MyController sharedInstance" />
</extension>

MyController should implement the following methods:

@implementation MyController
- (void)applicationLaunching { }   
- (void)applicationWillFinishLaunching { }
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching { }    
- (void)applicationMayTerminateNotification { }
- (void)applicationCancledTerminateNotification { }
- (void)applicationWillTerminate { }
@end

Normally a single controller won't need to get all those callbacks. If you don't need a particular callback just leave out that configuration element in the extension, and then you don't need to implment the callback method.