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Re: programatically activating/deactivating Dashboard



You can always get the Dashboard to open by launching the Dashboard.app in
/Applications.  There is not discrete way to dismiss the dashboard.

Thanks,
jl

> Hi all,
>
> On Tiger there existed two undocumented notifications that would
> activate and deactivate the Dashboard ("com.apple.dashboard.awake" and
> "com.apple.dashboard.dismiss") that could be posted to the default
> distributed notification center from a Cocoa application.  These
> notifications no longer work in Leopard so I'm wondering if anyone
> knows of an equivalent method to reliably show/hide the Dashboard.  I
> can simulate an "F12" event from an apple script but this only gets me
> toggle functionality when I'd really like to achieve a discrete way of
> doing this.  Does anyone know of anything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan Bonczek
> email@hidden
> phone: 508.683.2522
>
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