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Re: Removing Applications from the Dock Programmatically

On Aug 26, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Kicklighter wrote:

I need to remove applications that were on the the Dock, programmatically (running Leopard 10.5.4). Does anyone have a clue as to how I could accomplish this? 

You can access that information through NSUserDefaults as follows:

NSUserDefaults *theDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSDictionary *dockDict = [theDefaults persistentDomainForName:@"com.apple.dock"];
NSArray *apps = [dockDict valueForKey:@"persistent-apps"];

for(NSDictionary *anApp in apps)
{
NSLog([[anApp valueForKey:@"tile-data"] valueForKey:@"file-label"]);
}

Tread carefully here because you could easily hose the Dock preferences while doing this.

Here's some more reading on the subject of user defaults:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSUserDefaults_Class/Reference/Reference.html >
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