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Re: Docklet(ing) API & 10.1: Where ????

Subject: Re: Docklet(ing) API & 10.1: Where ????
From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:51:21 +0200

On mardi, octobre 2, 2001, at 11:42 , Matthew Formica wrote:

Dock extras have never been public API, so they were always used at your own
risk. Also, when doing things the new way, you may want to consider writing
a special small app designed to run all the time, have a low
memory/processor footprint, and just run the dock menu. It would then
launch the main app when needed and when given menu items were selected.
The alternative is to make sure that your app maintains a low memory
footprint when it isn't doing real work, so that every running dock app out
there doesn't hog lots of memory even when not doing anything.

Yes you can do that. But:

- you need to launch the application. How do you do this ? StartUpItems, login applications ? In this case, say bye bye to drag and drop installation.

- you need to create a whole application just to do a Dock Extra. On a side note, I don't understand John mention of faceless background applications having a menu in the dock. If they are faceless background, how can they have an icon in the dock ?????

- do you think Windows developers would be happy if Microsoft didn't allow them to add items to the Task Bar ?

--
Stephane

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