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Re: Hiding the Dock?

Robert's post works great. Thanks!

Except I googled up the property and found that setting the value to '1' made the dock autohide, without effecting the menus. So for anyone just now reading this thread:
You can autohide your dock by opening up your app's plist and adding the following lines:
</key>
</integer>

Your app can be pure java (no cocoa components), and it still works great.

On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Nicholas R. Rinard wrote:
Consider that users might not want you to arbitrarily frob their system ui settings. I sure as heck wouldn't. If an app did what you are saying without at least asking me first I'd be wary of using that software again, but maybe you have more understanding users.

I see your point, and to an extent I agree. But at this point its the lesser of two evils. Either we can autohide the dock, or we can talk about features in documentation that users can't access.

And especially based on my *original* suggestion I agree with you: before we were considering changing the dock's settings. And switching apps would leave the dock hidden. And if the application crashed the dock would be stuck that way. But with Robert's [great] advice its completely safe; even if the application crashes the dock will restore to its original state. Likewise switching apps restores it. So it's ONLY our app that's changed.

I guess we'll have to see it in action. I think users would be pretty understanding of what's going on. But if it makes you feel any better, Nicholas: our final decision here at the office was to open the program, and if we detect a size problem then prompt the user with a dialog (ugh), giving them the chance to fix it... (and warning that they have to restart the app for the changes to take effect.)
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