[Interest] Dynamically change dock icon under OS X

Bob Hood bhood2 at comcast.net
Wed Apr 15 21:58:58 CEST 2015


On 4/15/2015 2:00 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday April 15 2015 13:32:14 Bob Hood wrote:
>
>> Given that, is it possible to remove the dock icon while the application is
>> running hidden with only a systray presence? My application is not
>> interactable, and I don't want the user being able to do so with the dock icon.
> Yes, that's possible. You'll want to turn your application into an "agent". For that you can set the LSUIElement key to 1 or True in the application's Info.plist but I think there's also a Qt:: setting for that.
> If your application doesn't live in an app bundle it's slightly more complicated; you'll have to add some CoreFoundation calls before creating your Q*Application object. Let me know if that's your case.

Excellent!  Thanks, René.  I'll give that a try.




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