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My apolgies for sounding off.

ATM I’m trying to get the properties of the Docks UI element “Mail Manager” of list 1. Perhaps I can reset property 17, which is ‘false’, and hopefully might indicate the state of the Dock persitance, which is what I’ve really been trying to set. I found a way 12 months ago to create a ‘Stay in Dock’ icon for my App, but user Sierra, a second icon is created. So, I though I’d remove it, and leave my persitant icon alone. Might have to change my approach.

If I ask stupid questions in future, please bear with the state of my memory, cause I‘m constantly having to re-learn things that once came easily.

Brian

On 14 Sep. 2016, at 2:40 pm, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:

On 14 Sep 2016, at 1:47 PM, Brian Christmas <email@hidden> wrote:

I have no idea how to use NSUserDefaults, and copied something I found on the net, which has a dearth of information on the term.

You didn't search very hard -- did you search for "AppleScript NSUserDefaults"? Or perhaps search the two ASObjC books on your hard drive? Or even search for past posts to this list?

Here's a post to this list from February this year:

Code is (for posterity)…

on installDockIcon()
try

set theInfo to (current application's NSUserDefaults's alloc()'s init()'s persistentDomainForName:"com.apple.dock") as record

So I reckon the person who posted that might know at least something about NSUserDefaults. He goes by the name of Brian Christmas. Heck, I can see a post where the same guy used NSUserDefaults back in 2012. Maybe you should speak to him.

OK, I take your point I should not interfere, but if there’s absolutely no way I can remove a dock icon, just say so in plain terms

I don't know whether there is or not -- I haven't tried. I'm just saying don't expect there necessarily is, and stop trying to do it via the property list file, because that's guaranteed to be unreliable at best. If there is a way that works reliably, it will be via defaults and do shell script, or by using NSUserDefaults.

To do it via NSUserDefaults you can use something like this:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later

use framework "Foundation"

use framework "AppKit"

use scripting additions

set defaults to current application's NSUserDefaults's standardUserDefaults()

-- get existing values

set theValues to (defaults's persistentDomainForName:"com.apple.dock") as record

-- modify theValues to suit in here, then set to the new values...

defaults's setPersistentDomain:theValues forName:"com.apple.dock"

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>

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References:
	>Need to remove Dock icon (From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Need to remove Dock icon (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Need to remove Dock icon (From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Need to remove Dock icon (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Need to remove Dock icon (From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Need to remove Dock icon (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)