Re: Programmatically placing an item in the dock

FROM : Oliver Wagner
DATE : Tue Apr 22 19:21:30 2008

I know what I'm wanting to do used to be possible (link is from 2002), 
so I wasn't sure if it had migrated over to 10.5

http://developer.apple.com/adcnews/pastissues/devnews110102.html 
(search for CFPrefDockItems)

Ollie

On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:51 AM, John Stiles wrote:

> This "solution" will also kill all the user's Dashboard widgets, so 
> it's not to be taken lightly.
>
>
> Mike Abdullah wrote:

>> Quite simply there is no public API to control the dock. The 
>> closest (and hacky) solution is to modify the dock's plist and 
>> restart it.
>>
>> Mike.
>>
>> On 22 Apr 2008, at 07:02, Oliver Wagner wrote:
>>

>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I would like to add and remove an item in the dock (preferably 
>>> with a nice poof when removed) programmatically without restarting 
>>> the dock. I can't find a way to do this in 10.5. Do any of you 
>>> know if this is possible?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ollie
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