[blizzard]

Hey all,

There's a neat little utility that came out a couple of years ago that was sadly dropped soon after. I still get a lot of use out of it, but it would be nice if someone could get it back on its feet again. Its name is IconSticker; I don't know if anyone's heard of it, but here's a link. The author has made the source available; I'd try it myself but I couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag.

http://pekeler.org/software/IconSticker/

Basically it's a screensaver module that can take certain active icons (I don't know how else to describe them; any icons with constantly updated badges, like Mail and Proteus) and overlay them on top of another screensaver, so you can tell without moving your mouse at a glance if you have new email or new IM messages. I swear by it; I think it'd be even better if support could be extended to other programs, like Adium.

Lemme know what you think; it'd be great to see this one develop further.

Ian.

[Devin Lane]

I took a look at it, and it looks like you have to make a plugin for each app you want to support. Also, it seems that it can only be used by programs that do not use a custom subclass of NSApplication, but I'm not too sure about that.

I think it might work better if one was to create an APE module and put in a custom method for setApplicationIconImage:. However, there are problems in that not all changes in doc icons reflect status that the user should see, such as the bars in Activity Monitor.

[blizzard]

Thanks for the reply!

I'm fuzzy on the details...does it seem like a lot of work, or a little?