Karen wrote:
On 20 Feb 2006, at 01:07, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
Yes, you should be able to do it. Revolution has a global property
called the "icon" which, if set, specifies the icon that is displayed in
the OS X dock. You could write a script that takes a snapshot of a small
image containing the text you want to show, and then set the icon to the
id of that image. If you do this repeatedly using a "send in <time>"
structure, the icon would update dynamically.
Thanks very much for the answer Jacque. I'm guessing that I would also
need to be able to combine the graphic of my existing icon with the
snapshot of the text that I wanted to show. I'll need to try any
figure out how to do that now - I've not done much with graphics in Rev
previously.
Right, you'll need to overlay the text onto an existing copy of your
icon. However, that text is going to be awfully small; I wonder how
useful it will be.
There used to be another problem as well -- the Finder did not update
the dock icon automatically. Even though you have changed it, the Finder
ignores the change until the next time it updates its display. I
imagine there is some kind of shell command that can force Finder to
update -- or maybe that's changed in later versions of OS X. I haven't
tried the technique in a very long time, so a lot of my info is
theoretical only. You'll have to do some experiementing, I"m afraid.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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