How can I write an autostarting dock app for the Mac?

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Published on 2011-01-12T11:50:17Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 11:53 UTC
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I have an application I'd like to build that starts when you start the mac and will appear in the dock.

I have some experience with Objective-C and iPhone dev but none with Mac dev, I'm also a PC user normally so I'm not au fait with the norms of Mac usage. Any guidance here is appreciated.

How do you get an application to autostart?

Can you run an app in the tray bar? (with the clock etc in) or do apps only run in the dock?

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