[Dark Sailor]

...eject an external hard drive when clicked on?

Also, I have seen icon sets with icons that look like a power button, which appear to be intended for the dock. How does one make an icon bring up the "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?" window upon clicking?

Thanks in advance for any tips. Much love for the Forum.

[naphtali]

I suppose you could do that in AppleScript by writing something like

Tell application "Finder"
eject "DiskName"
End tell

then compile it as an applet and put it on the dock with a custom icon that corresponds to the hard drive.

I've tried this once with my external drive and it seems to work fine.

I notice that you can do the same for "shut down", though the Finder AppleScript dictionary says it is a legacy command now delegated to other applications (I found it under System Events too). Tried it and the script doesn't bring up a confirmation dialogue before shutting down.