Well, with great thanks to everybody, I think I now have a relatively
clean implementation that does what I want. There was enough interest
that I think I will present what I have done, but in order not to
waste bandwidth here I have put on my website both the interface and
implementation
On 26/07/2009, at 11:16 AM, Stuart Malin wrote:
Of course, you can have your custom view draw whatever you'd like
(in a 128 x 128 frame).
If the appearance of the view needs to change due to underlying
changes in teh state of your app, just issue the -display message to
the dockTile:
Jay: I hope I am on the mark here with what you are trying to
achieve I have just constructed a rather tiny app that displays a
custom image in the Dock. This custom view is shown in the dock for
the app itself when running (not just when minimized). The app icon
is *not* shown becau
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jay Reynolds
Freeman wrote:
> Kyle, I read you loud and clear, or at least I think I do, but the behavior
> you describe for the app icon image in the dock is not what I am seeing. I
> am running my application now, with my bitmap-hacking code in place,
> and it ha
Jay Reynolds Freeman wrote:
Precisely! And what I am wishing for is a way to specify a window
whose
"existing color" is "transparent", so that the bitmap created will in
essence have (red, green, blue, alpha) = (0, 0, 0, 0), in locations
not otherwise explicitly drawn. If such a window appeare
On Jul 25, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Jay Reynolds Freeman wrote:
On Jul 25, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Kyle Sluder provided a variety
of extremely helpful and pertinent comments:
> I'm also pretty sure you don't want to use -
setApplicationIconImage:.
> That will cause all occasions of your app icon, includin
On Jul 25, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Kyle Sluder provided a variety
of extremely helpful and pertinent comments:
> I'm also pretty sure you don't want to use -setApplicationIconImage:.
> That will cause all occasions of your app icon, including places that
> use +[NSImage imageNamed:] with an @"NSApplica
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jay Reynolds
Freeman wrote:
> I do not want to change the dockTile, and no public method of
> NSDockTile appears to change the dock icon in any case. I am
> indeed using -[NSApplication setApplicationIconImage:], my
> problem is creating a new image that has the c
> You have two choices: change your application's icon using
> -[NSApplication setApplicationIconImage:], or customize the dock
> tile returned by -[NSApplication dockTile]. Neither of these
> changes will persist after your application quits.
I do not want to change the dockTile, and no public m
> If I set a particular background color for the view where I am drawing
> the image...
Sherm's suggestion does not involve drawing into a view at all...
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What Sherm suggests is exactly what I described as my solution,
and it does work, with one serious problem: Capturing the image
that gets drawn in the manner described *also* captures whatever
background lies beyond the transparent portions of the image, and
that is not what I want. That is why
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jay Reynolds
Freeman wrote:
> What I want to do is modify the dock icon while the application running.
> The only interface I can find to do this is
> NSApp.setApplicationIconImage: , which requires an NSImage. I have no way
> to get at the actual view being used
On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Jay Reynolds Freeman > wrote:
The doc tile is the tiny image of the application main window that
appears in the dock when you minimize the application. The dock
icon is (usually) the regular application icon, that appears in the
dock when the application is l
What I want to do is modify the dock icon while the application
running. The only interface I can find to do this is
NSApp.setApplicationIconImage: , which requires an NSImage. I have no
way to get at the actual view being used to draw the dock icon, in
order to subclass it; I have to creat
On Jul 25, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Jay Reynolds Freeman > wrote:
Well, mea culpa, I have not been speaking clearly; what I want to
badge is not the dock tile but the dock icon,
Not sure I understand what you're talking about. Do you mean to modify
the application's icon even when it isn't running
Well, mea culpa, I have not been speaking clearly; what I want to
badge is not the dock tile but the dock icon, and I cannot find a way
to get at the view for that, so as to install a special class: The
interface seems to be through NSApp:applicationIconImage and
NSAPP:setApplicationIconIma
On 25/07/2009, at 4:34 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
I ended up finding a basically sane way to do this -- just
one method, and I did not have to subclass NSView -- but
with a large hack for one feature:
Subclassing NSView is not a big deal. Just override -drawRect, draw
the image you want, and dr
On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Jay Reynolds Freeman > wrote:
I ended up finding a basically sane way to do this -- just
one method, and I did not have to subclass NSView -- but
with a large hack for one feature:
Subclassing NSView is not a big deal. Just override -drawRect, draw
the image you
> I have cause to display something like an application badge on
> the docktile of my app, but [the regular one won't do] ...
Solution (I think ...):
I ended up finding a basically sane way to do this -- just
one method, and I did not have to subclass NSView -- but
with a large hack for one feat
You'll need to draw the custom content yourself by using -[NSDockTile
setContentView:]
On 20 Jul 2009, at 10:33, Jay Reynolds Freeman wrote:
I have cause to display something like an application badge on
the docktile of my app, but the alarums-and-excursions feel of
the standard bright red ba
I have cause to display something like an application badge on
the docktile of my app, but the alarums-and-excursions feel of
the standard bright red badge with zigzag edges is a bit too
strident for what I have in mind. Can anyone point me at a
scrap of code that would give me the functionality
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