Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Creating an App that Creates a New Process

Unix systems have a program called sort that reads data from standard input, sorts it, and outputs it to standard output. You are going to write a program that invokes sort as a new process, writes data to its input, and reads data from its output. The user will type in an NSTextView, click a button to trigger the sort, and read the result in another NSTextView. It will look like Figure 19.1:

Figure 19.1  SortThem application running

For the record, this is not how we would do a sort in a real application. The NSArray class has a couple of elegant ways to do sorting. This is just a simple example of using ...