[Justin Hancock]

Alright, I have a program called SnapperHead that takes a screenshot of your desktop whenever someone accesses that page via your IP and it is displayed. I've set it up so it starts automatically with the boot-up.

How can I make it so that program doesn't appear in the dock? And please be specific as I just got my first Mac (an iBook) yesterday and I haven't even begun to get use to it.

[Ghoser777]

Is it a Cocoa App? I have a program at home that will do it for you, I just never released it.

Do you want me to post it on my site, or would you rather get the command line way of doing this manually?

Matt

[Justin Hancock]

Cocoa app? o_0

I don't know what that means.

[BuonRotto]

Cocoa is a toolbox for programmers to write applications with. The other major toolbox is called Carbon. Applications written in Cocoa have some differences with Carbon ones in small ways. This is one of those ways.

Anyway, here's a link to another forum to do just what you mention:

http://www.macaddict.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1590

Note that you also will lose the menubar for this app when you do this.

[JB72]

There's a great, free Google search app called http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mthole/searchling/]Searchling[/URL] that launches w/o a dock icon. Might want to email the author and ask about how he/she did it. Or check the source code.

[Fuzzle]

i was trying to do this...
my solution for some (not all) apps is this
Open up the package (right click-> show contents)
open the Info.plist file with your favorite editor (i use property list viewer)

Add in this string

NSUIElement with a STRING value of 1

I am running iChat without a dock icon...

[Anomalous]

Originally posted by Fuzzle:
i was trying to do this...
my solution for some (not all) apps is this
Open up the package (right click-> show contents)
open the Info.plist file with your favorite editor (i use property list viewer)

Add in this string

NSUIElement with a STRING value of 1

I am running iChat without a dock icon...

You are right. Here is another article about it: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...10701191518268

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by Fuzzle:
NSUIElement with a STRING value of 1

No no no! Use LSUIElement. NS* tags are deprecated and undocumented

[megasad]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
No no no! Use LSUIElement. NS* tags are deprecated and undocumented

Seriously? I've added a NSUIElement to the uControl startup item, to stop it bouncing in the dock at login. It should be LSUIElement instead? I know both work, but which is supposed to be used for this purpose?

[ksuther]

LSUIElement and NSUIElement both work, but Apple doesn't guaruntee that your computer will not start to smoke if you use NSUIElement.

Just use LSUIElement because Apple said they support it, and Apple sometimes does horrible things to unsupported things (*cough* menu extras *cough*)

[ianmeyer]

I had been wondering how to do that! Thanx!

[JeremyA]

Originally posted by Fuzzle:

Add in this string

NSUIElement with a STRING value of 1

I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I think that this technique only works for cocoa apps and I think that SnapperHead is carbon.

Jeremy