Re: Adding and removing application to the dock programmatically.

FROM : R.L. Grigg
DATE : Tue Nov 27 02:56:38 2007

On Nov 22, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Clark Cox wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2007 1:04 AM, Amit8 J <amit8.<email_removed>> wrote:

>> Hi All
>> I have been having a bit of a problem with placing an application 
>> in the
>> Dock. I want to place an application icon in the Dock 
>> programically. Is
>> there some API call which can do this. I Already know another way 
>> to do
>> the same which is by adding the application to
>> "com.apple.preferences.plist" using "defaults". However the 
>> problem with
>> this way is that the dock has to be restarted to show the change.

>
> This is the only way that I know of to do this, and it is a horrible
> idea, for several reasons:
> 1) It is not supported by Apple, and could change with any OS update
> 2) Killing the user's Dock also kills all of the things that the dock
> is responsible for (such as Dashboard widgets).
> 3) If I want something in my Dock, I'll put it there; nobody else 
> should do so.


Tell this to Apple. The installation of iWork '08 and iLife '08 do 
this and its very annoying.
Russ