[Simon]

I just wanted to write a little AppleScript which would turn dock hiding on. The idea was that I would save this script as an application and then be able to run it through the terminal like "open /Applications/hide.app" where hide.app would be the script. I would then be able to insert the terminal command "open /Applications/hide.app" in the .xinitrc file, so that dock hiding would be activated when I start XDarwin (I need the extra space when running X11 apps).

My only problem is: How do you script the dock? I wanted to open the AppleScript dictionary for Dock.app but I couldn't find it in the dictionary listing. Do I have to use a Finder class? Isn't there something like:

tell Application "Dock.app"
set Hiding "on"
end tell


Thanks for your help,
Simon

[acur128]

The Dock isn't scriptable (yet), but you could work around it by writing the hiding state to its preferences file & restarting the dock. This should work, but it requires Mac OS X 10.1.2 for the "do shell script" command:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>set dockhide_state to (do shell script <font color = red>"defaults read com.apple.dock autohide"</font>) as text
if dockhide_state = <font color = red>"<font color = blue>1</font>"</font> then
set theBool to <font color = red>"no"</font>
else
set theBool to <font color = red>"yes"</font>
end if
do shell script (<font color = red>"defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool "</font> & theBool as text)
try
tell application <font color = red>"Dock"</font> to quit
end try</font>[/code]
If you don't have OS X 10.1.2 installed, the statement:
tell app "Terminal" to do script with command
could be used in place of "do shell script", but it launches the terminal to run the commands.

[Angus_D]

ASM can turn on auto-hiding for specific apps.