Watch for Dock quit

yelly · Post by **yelly** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:55 pm

When the dock restarts, the Adium icon appears as if you were offline (or Adium was closed or whatever). My guess is that this happens because the dock uses the application icon, and Adium doesn't know to change it until your status changes. The easy solution is to have Adium watch for dock quits and change the icon appropriately.

Post by **bgannin** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:23 pm

The easy "user visible" action is to do this, it's not necessarily technically feasible.

Knaledge · Post by **Knaledge** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:06 pm

I've noticed that when using "Quit" via the dock icon for Adium that the application quits properly (no crashes or unexpected close) but the icon still appears as if I am "online" (the duck's eyes are still open).

Any thoughts on this?

Post by **The_Tick** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:58 pm

Hrmm.. well there's no distributed notification for this. We could poll the dock, but that's just ugly.

Tony Arnold · Post by **Tony Arnold** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:40 pm

I'm afraid my only advice on this would be exactly the same as Tick's - Friends don't let other friends poll the Dock for information. You'll need to use something like mach_inject to properly do that, and you're setting yourself up for a world o' pain if you do that.

Isn't there some way to force a dock icon to change back to the default on application terminate? Surely quitting via the dock doesn't skip standard de-allocations and the NSApplicationWillTerminate notification?