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Re: How can you get an app to launch without showing its Icon?!
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Re: How can you get an app to launch without showing its Icon?!


  • Subject: Re: How can you get an app to launch without showing its Icon?!
  • From: Jonathan Feinberg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:31:01 -0400

On 4/16/02 Roger O'Brien <email@hidden> wrote:

>Okay first and foremost, I understand that NSWorkspace has a method that
>does it, but it doesn't work. What I really want is to be able to
>launch my App without its Icon popping into the dock. Is this at all
>possible? God bless the soul who can help me.

Whether or not to show up in the dock is a property of the launched application, and not of the launching entity. If you distribute the app in question yourself, then create a key "NSUIElement" with a value of "1" (yes, the string "1") in the app's info.plist file.
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Jonathan Feinberg email@hidden Inwood, NY, NY
http://MrFeinberg.com
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