Getting a cocoa app to talk to the shell?

[michaelsanford]

I'm not new to programming, but very new to objective-c and PB (messaging, etc).

How would I make a cocoa app talk to the shell (execute shell commands, once authenticated in the GUI, like BrickHouse does for example)?

I'd like to (I must) do this invisibly, and not have it execute some ugly script that opens a terminal window (like all of GPG's functions do, ugh!)

I've got an O'Reilly book on Cocoa (the one with a dog on the cover) but it's not useful for this topic.

Any links or code-snippits are much appreciated, thanks!

 

[gatorparrots]

Get the source code for SwapCop or XOptimize. They should be good lead-ins for you.

 

[michaelsanford]

Cool thanks!

 

[slur]

Yep, and the code for "DropScript" should provide a good example too.