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Is dock visable [sic] [visible]
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Is dock visable [sic] [visible]


  • Subject: Is dock visable [sic] [visible]
  • From: Dan Feather <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:55:00 -0600

Robert,

I'm not sure what you intend to do, but the following will indicate status of "autohide" in the cur_pref variable.

tell application "System Events"
	tell dock preferences
		set cur_pref to autohide
		if cur_pref = false then
			set autohide to true
		else
			set autohide to false
		end if
	end tell
end tell

If autohide is false, then you KNOW the dock is visible. If it's true, then it's NOT visible UNLESS the cursor is over its "zone." . . . I suppose you could query the preferences to get the zone (more or less; as I suspect that would be a bit dicey with variables such as screen dimens., etc.) AND then get cursor location.

 - Dan


Dan Feather email@hidden



On Dec 10, 2011, at 2:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:

From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
Subject: Is dock visable
To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>

Hi,

I would like to be able to tell if the Dock is/is not visible.

The best example I have found so far is;

tell application "System Events"
tell dock preferences
get properties
--> returns: {minimize effect:genie, springing delay:1.0, dock size:0.428571432829, magnification:false, springing:false, location:bottom, class:dock preferences object, magnification size: 1.0, animate:true, autohide:false}
set properties to {minimize effect:scale, location:right, autohide:true, magnification:false, magnification size:0.5, dock size:1.0}
end tell
end tell


But the only item I see is Autohide and that doesn't seem to do the job.

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