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Certain globals and functions are pulled in automatically and through the mac traps thing. Others know much more about this. But i know you do need to import certain libraries out right. Open up some of the mac libraries and you’ll see they include a lot of others so you also get a lot for...

Thanks 🙏 will do!

It says “Alias for folder containing the items”. Then it says further down “List of aliases for items in the folder” does this mean the parameter to the apple event should be a list of aliases the finder should open or do i first give it an alias of the folder containing the items..?

here to help!

Hey all -- Life's kept me busy with unrelated projects but I spent some time on this this week. I'm trying to work my way up to a few new features that involve MacDock getting the finder to do a few things: Show the application in the finder (e.g. command click on the dock item and this should...

Ah yes -- Resourcerer!! Link included because took me a minute to find it and then a second to find it for 68k. I'll work on this. A decent book. Ultimate Mac Programming (1994) had IMHO a better quick intro to apple events than Inside Macintosh's interprocess comm. chapters. I'm noting it...

thx for these - but :-P I've already been looking through them and haven't found any sort of Finder apple events details - just lots of general how to set up apple events stuff.

Yes - thanks. I sew this but I don't know enough to be able to turn that into a proper setup for an AppleEvent call. For example what keywords to use.. do I have to add a parameter to specify the file location etc. etc. etc. Is it possible to determine all of those nuances of setting up an...

Ok thanks -- and that "1.2 Apple Events" link you sent is promising on its own as well!

Hmm -- from what you're saying, I'm not sure it would be useful. I'm looking for some reference that will allow me to build AppleEvents in C that the Finder would understand. Like so that I can build an apple event that tells the finder to open a folder or a reveal the location of an...

Does anyone know how to find the AppleEvents registry for the Finder? I'm trying to use AE's to tell the finder to reveal a file (ie bring open the folder containing a program). From what I can tell, apple had those monthly developer resource magazines and they'd include a CD with "Apple Event...

Thx for confirming the apple event part. And yes - I saw / remembered your post from a while back mentioning the Layer Manager as an in to hack around this.. I couldn't find much on the layer manger -- is it covered at all in Inside Macintosh? The other way I thought could be an option was if I...

Haha @retr01 you won't believe this--- but option+clicking on an app in MacDock will hide the current running app. This is exactly how the standard Mac OS system 7 app switcher behaves (e.g. if you're in SimpleText and you use the menubar's app switcher to select Finder, holding the option key...

Only call BeginUpdate() and EndUpdate() in the in my update event handler so it's not triggered when the computer is idle. I'll add the min. timer for updates also. It's high time. And @retr01 I'll look into the option+click to hide other apps!

Yes this got me once too -- it came on seemingly on its own when I was working and bouncing between an SE and an SE/30. Glad you + @Crutch figured it out!

Fyi for other tinkerers - what did it for me was improving the logic so that MacDock didnt redraw its contents indiscriminately on Null events. So while it still checks all running processes every Null event, it now checks if there are any changes to the running app list and only redraws the...

Im looking into all those ideas that flowed here! I just needed to roll out an update sooner with what I released yesterday. In particular After Dark compatibility (this was a big deal for me personally as I worry about my old screens) and the About Box needed to work too. I was pleased with...

note I noticed a small redraw issue -- fixed it within the same release so all of the above links still work. Sorry about that to anyone who downloaded it in the first 20 minutes since it was released before it was updated. Links above are still the best ones. No change there.

Released - version 1.1 Git repo: https://github.com/retrospectmike/MacDock Direct download of the .sit: https://github.com/retrospectmike/MacDock/releases/download/1.1/MacDock_v1.1.sit Release notes: v1.1 -- 5/8/2023 No longer keeps After Dark screensavers from triggering when idle Reduced...

This is unlikely to align with your problem - but on my SE/30 I had/have similar issues. I noticed if, after inserting the floppy, I used my finger+nail to give the seated floppy when final extra push forward into the machine that it would now be able to format with much more likelihood. I...