[Interest] Dynamically change dock icon under OS X

[Bob Hood]

On 4/15/2015 11:21 AM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
>> Am 15.04.2015 um 13:52 schrieb Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net>:
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>> ...
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>> Anybody have any insights here?  I already suspect it simply isn't possible,
>> but I thought I'd ask anyway.
> I might be wrong, but doesn't Qt Creator also update its app icon by showing the number of compile errors?
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> For sure there exists a Cocoa API for this (which might be easy to embed into your application as platform-specific *.mm Obj-C++ code), but chances are there is no Qt API (yet?).
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> Wouldn't the "Qt MacExtras" module be a place for this (to search/implement)?
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> Then again, I remember discussions even here on qt-interest, and the conclusion seemed to be that all those "Qt WhateverExtras" modules where a bad idea to begin with (for reasons I cannot quite remember right now, but they sounded convincing at the time ;)).
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> If I'm right about Qt Creator your best bet might be to see how they do it - or wait for a better answer ;)

Thanks, Oliver.  I'll see if I can track that down in the Creator code.  
You're likely right, it'll probably be Cocoa-specific.