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How do you make Slife 2.1 go into the background the second time?
I installed 2.1 and immediately checked the "Run Slife as a background application" and "Show Slife icon in menu bar" options. I quit and restarted Slife 2.1 and, as expected, it only appeared in the menu bar.
However, during the day a couple of times I like to check the Day View, so I used the "Show Slife" option in the menu bar icon to bring up the full app. That works great, but I don't see any way to put Slife in the background again without quitting and restarting it. During the time it isn't running, "things could happen"... the biggest one being I would get interrupted and forget to restart it. ;-)
Is there a way to close the window and force Slife back into the background without quitting the app?
However, during the day a couple of times I like to check the Day View, so I used the "Show Slife" option in the menu bar icon to bring up the full app. That works great, but I don't see any way to put Slife in the background again without quitting and restarting it. During the time it isn't running, "things could happen"... the biggest one being I would get interrupted and forget to restart it. ;-)
Is there a way to close the window and force Slife back into the background without quitting the app?
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Inappropriate?Nope. On the Mac, one can create a standard application or what's called a background application. Once you have a background application you can change its process type and make it come into the foreground. But you can't do it the other way around.
One option we are still looking at is having a version of Slife that is split into two apps - an observer and a visualizer. The observer would be a background app (small and compact). The visualizer would be a standard app that you can launch whenever you want to look at the visualizations, make preference changes, etc.
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Inappropriate?Thanks, ethomaz! I thought it was probably that, but figured it never hurts to ask.
I wonder how some apps, like Quicksilver, can stay in the background and still pop up windows for preferences and such, though... There's got to be a way to make it work.
Please count my vote for separated observer and visualizer apps in the future! I only need to check what I'm doing a few times a day and I'd rather save the Dock/memory/cpu space the rest of the time.
Thanks again for such a great product!
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