[Colin Davis]

Ok, I'm looking to replacate NeXT-Style Docks, as I posted in <a href="http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=46;t=007201" target="_blank">http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=46;t=007201</a>

There was one suggestion posted there, but it doesn't really support drawers..

So here's the deal, if one of you will Code me the App I need, I'll give you $25.
I know it's not much, but it's what I can afford. I'm a poor collage kid. But you could still release it as shareware, and make a buck or two that way. (I suspect Apple may eventually want to implement something similiar into OSX. It's just TOO useful).

Create a custom application, that has no main window, just a Dock Window. (Dockling?).
When you click on it, It it brings up a menu. So far, very simple. There are several existing docklings that do this.
The new (afaik) part is that I'd like the menu to NOT be text, but be Icons, the size of the rest of the icons in the Dock.

These icons, when you click on them, are aliases, and would launch programs, similiar to the way programs on the Dock proper do.

The Dockling could be run multiple times. Each time, it would create a new instance in the Real Dock. Each of these could be assigned a seperate icon.

To add a icon to the Dockling's mini-dock, you could drag an application onto the face of the Dockling, and it would create an alias to it (again, like the real dock's behavior). Dragging an application out of the dock to delete it is fine. (Poof of smoke is optional, but nice polish)

I would also like the docklings to save state. Ie, If I restart my machine, I would like a way for them to re-appear, without losing the menu items that they had had.

Basically, I want to create several icons in the dock, which sprout out a mini-dock, each mini-dock acting in much the same way as the original dock.

Is such a thing possible? I would think it would be realitively easy, but I'm new to the OSX world.

I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments on this subject.
Colin Davis

[Mac Boy]

Save your $25 and instead put it towards one of the many nice Cocoa programming books out there today.

And don't tell me you can't afford to buy the Apple Developer Tools.

- Ross

[Noob]

You could just add folders to the dock à la this:
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/chris_redden/dock.tiff" target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/chris_redden/dock.tiff</a>

Edit: link

<small>[ 07-02-2002, 11:38 PM: Message edited by: Noob ]</small>

[Colin Davis]

I'm doing that now, but it's a not really a good substitute. The Folders display a tiny pop-up display. I don't think there is any way to make them display full size icons, that fit with the rest of the dock.

If you could make the folder display the icons full-size, but without a huge border, just the icons, I could create a folder of alias' and point it to that (which is my temporary solution)

But I really would like to have a proper dock.. Maybe in 10.2..

Colin

[davecom]

I'd develop this if one or two other people would partner with me.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Colin, you don't mean something like this, right?

<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/thett/.Public/demo.mov" target="_blank">Demo Movie</a>

Cheers, Thilo

<small>[ 07-05-2002, 04:34 PM: Message edited by: Thilo Ettelt ]</small>