AppleScript - Show/Hide dock when ScreenSharing Session starts/ends

Hello,
I'd love to have an Apple Script that shows me my Dock when a screen sharing Session starts, and hides it again when the session ends. And it should do this automatically
Is there a way to achieve that????
Thanks a lot

you can do it as follows.
download and install DoSomethingWhen
http://www.azarhi.com/Projects/DSW/
then paste the following into AppleScript Editor
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "System Events"
tell dock preferences
set autohide to false
end tell
end tell</pre>
save it as an application. then make a rule using DoSomethingWhen to run the above application whenever ScreenSharing launches. ScreenSharing.app is located in /System/Library/Coreservices
then make another rule for when screen sharing quits (change false to true in the above script for that one).

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