Re: Adding a doc icon flag
Re: Adding a doc icon flag
- Subject: Re: Adding a doc icon flag
- From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:01:11 -0700
Last I heard--I seem to remember reading it in John Siracusa's review
of Panther at ArsTechnica--even lower level programmers didn't have
access to update Dock icons like that. However, the current OmniWeb
public beta posts notifications on its icon, so either that was never
true, it's changed, or Omni is working around it. Wow, wasn't that
helpful?
On Apr 14, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Andrew Oliver wrote:
I don't know about it ever being non-public. Handling the dock icon,
including sample code on how to change the dock icon during program
execution (using Mail.app as an example) is pretty well documented in
the
Carbon documentation:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/
customizing_dock
tile/concepts/chapter_2_section_2.html>
Yeah, I think I was wrongly remembering this section of Siracusa's
article[1] on Panther:
"This strategy may be in the works at Apple, but it is not here yet.
For example, although Dock-like third party applications are popular,
it is not yet possible for a third party developer to create an
application that completely replaces the Dock. So far, no one has been
able to support things like Dock menus, application icon updates and
alerts, and displaced window minimization, using either private or
public APIs. So anyone using one or more of the popular Dock-like
applications must also keep the Dock running (and possibly also
visible) or be resigned to losing the Dock functionality that cannot be
reproduced elsewhere."
There's already enough that annoys me about that series of articles
without imputing extra wrongness to it.
Mike
[1]
<
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2
-5.html>
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