Re: Momentary lapse into magnification
Re: Momentary lapse into magnification
- Subject: Re: Momentary lapse into magnification
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:40:53 +0200
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I thought it would be cool if you could use the dock with magnification
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turned off, but could temporarily turn magnification on by pressing,
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say, control, while the cursor was over the dock, in order to look more
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closely at a minimized window, for example. I don't think this is
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already possible in OS X, because pressing every button I can think of
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has no effect.
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Could I write a very small program to do this in cocoa? I figure I would
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a) need to be able to send a message to the dock to turn on/off
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magnification. This is probably possible by using NSScriptCommand,
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right?
I don't think that the dock is scriptable, and all the interfaces to it
are proprietary...File a feature suggestion on developer interfaces to
the dock!
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b) need to receive notifications of events from the dock. ie. mouse
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over or something like that.
That isn't possible either, as far as i can see, given the current
implementation.
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Is what I want to do possible? Any advice on where I could find this
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sort of information.
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/ david