Posted on 3/11/10

MacMost Forum / Application v. Preference Pane App

TextExpander just released a new version. In doing so they went from a System Preference (Preference Pane) application to a standard Mac application.

What’s the difference?

Can you make a standard application act as a System Preference application?

– Paulie [eatl/ga]

3 Responses to “Application v. Preference Pane App”

  1. Gary Rosenzweig says:
    3/11/10 at 7:00 am

    A standard application runs in its own space, has document and tool windows, and is independent of other applications. A preference pane would usually alter something about Mac OS X.
    But I wouldn’t say the new TextExpander is a standard application — it does alter Mac OS X and work with other applications. I would refer to it as a OS X extension.
    But it is hard to define the difference between these anyway. It is like comparing motorcycles and cars. They are different, but do some of the same things too.

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    • JCarv says:
      2/2/11 at 8:06 pm

      I have a similar question, I am new to programming and Objective-C/Cocoa is what I’m learning on. My first project is to convert an Application that was written as a preference pane, into a stand alone application. Is this an easy thing to do? Or is it more complicated then I’m hoping?

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