Dock applications

Hi, is it rue that too many items in the dock slow down the computer. I have many in my dock and could delete some if it is necessary. I use only a few, just like them there. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Ray

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BUG: Docked Application Control Bar breaks States

I've encountered a bug and I haven't noticed messages from
anyone else about it so I'm assuming it's an unknown:
If you use an Application Control Bar, set it's dock property
to true, and then attempt to change the currentState of the
application to a state that would result in the Application Control
Bar to be removed; the state change fails.
Here's an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute">
<mx:states>
<mx:State name="problemState">
<mx:AddChild relativeTo="{textarea1}"
position="before">
<mx:Button x="368.5" y="323" label="Goto Base State"
click="currentState="""/>
</mx:AddChild>
<mx:AddChild position="lastChild">
<mx:ApplicationControlBar x="170" y="221" dock="true"
id="appControlBar">
</mx:ApplicationControlBar>
</mx:AddChild>
<mx:AddChild position="lastChild">
<mx:Button x="360" y="434" label="Undock Control Bar"
click="appControlBar.dock = false"/>
</mx:AddChild>
<mx:AddChild position="lastChild">
<mx:Button x="366.5" y="464" label="Dock Control Bar"
click="appControlBar.dock = true"/>
</mx:AddChild>
<mx:AddChild relativeTo="{appControlBar}"
position="before">
<mx:TextArea x="229.5" y="403" width="396" height="23"
editable="false" fontSize="12" fontWeight="bold" textAlign="center"
id="textarea0">
<mx:text>Undocking the control bar at runtime fixes
the problem:</mx:text>
</mx:TextArea>
</mx:AddChild>
<mx:AddChild relativeTo="{appControlBar}"
position="before">
<mx:TextArea x="229.5" y="210" width="396" height="105"
editable="false" fontSize="12" fontWeight="bold" textAlign="center"
id="textarea2">
<mx:text>If you try and return to the base state while
the control bar is docked, the state change will fail. The state
change will get "stuck" and you'll have to reload
the Flex application. If there was a third state, you could change
to that to get out of the lockup, but you still can't transition to
any state that would remove the docked Application Control
Bar:</mx:text>
</mx:TextArea>
</mx:AddChild>
</mx:State>
</mx:states>
<mx:Button x="358.5" y="135" label="Goto Problem State"
click="currentState="problemState""/>
<mx:TextArea x="229.5" y="70" width="396" height="57"
editable="false" fontSize="12" fontWeight="bold" textAlign="center"
id="textarea1">
<mx:text>A Docked application control bar prevents
Flex from changing state to a state that would remove the
application control bar.</mx:text>
</mx:TextArea>
</mx:Application>

Hi Harry (and others),
I have seen similar behavior. It seems like the client side rendering for some reason has a hard time processing the collection model wrapping the ArrayList in this particular case. The table renders empty. After sorting in ascending order, the rows are all back (visible) again.
Is anyone aware of issues with the rich table based directly on ArrayList (in combination with a changing set of values and/or sorting)? (seems like a corner case but is still not uncommon). Is there any indication that wrapping the ArrayList in a CollectionModel ourselves might be required?
Harry: do you know whether this issue is introduced with PS3 (11.1.1.4) or already existed in previous releases?
kind regards,
Lucas

Quit all open dock applications at once?

Is there a way to quit all open dock applications at once? I find it time-consuming to go in and quit applications I have used in the dock one at a time.
May be I don't understand why they even stay open after I quit what I was doing with them? Is it possible to set it up that way? I find it is not very Mac-like
to have to go in and quit 5 or 6 items in the dock one at a time. Can you please shed some light on this for me? Thank you for your time and patience.

No, but there is an alternative.
Press command+tab to show the application switcher. While keeping the command key held down, you can press q on a selected application to quit it. The only one you can't quit is the Finder (as this is the application that shows you your Desktop).

Dock application gets killed itself on Lion, how to debug this issue?

Hi, Dock application gets killed itself and it dissappears and relaunches itself after for few seconds, This is happening for every 5 min or so. it is quite annoying problem. how to debug this issue? any help?

When I look the system logs - there is an exception each time I try to run the application or open a window:
9/5/09 10:33:12 PM Linear[23545] Cannot create BOOL from object <Regression: 0x1461f0> of class Regression

Why is the Dock application consuming CPU?

I got a new MacBook Pro 15" retina display, migrated my data from my old mac, and now the Dock application is consuming a ton of CPU on the system.
I have found many other threads in these forums, many of them quite old. They typically suggest a problem with VMWare fusion or Parallels, neither of which I have on my system. They also suggest removing the com.apple.dock.plist file and killing the application, which did not help, nor did removing all applications from the dock and quitting all other applications.
What else can I do to try and fix this problem?

Have you tried restarting the computer? Also,
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
You can also kill the Dock process using Activity Monitor.

Mac icons not showing in dock application folder

that's what displays after install. the proper icon displays everywhere else. the funny thing is if i move the app out of the applications folder, say to the desktop, then back to the applcations folder the icon proper icon shows.. wierd.
any suggestions?

this is only happening in the dock application folder
icon appears correctly everywhere else at all sizes

Create a custom dock/application icon for .jar files built in eclipse

I've spent the better part of the afternoon trying to figure out how to apply a custom icon to jar file that I created in eclipse. I am presently using eclipse v3.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 and have yet to find a way to change the java coffee cup logo in the document icon for my jar files created in eclipse. Is there some way I can call a specific Apple class in Eclipse to change the dock/application icon of my .jar file?
I found this link that uses a class that seems to be specific to XCode to change the icon of the .jar file.
What I mean by change the icon of the jar file, I mean change the icon used in the dock, and also the icon used when the "command+tab" switcher pops up. Presently, I have the black console icon with the text "exec" in the upperleft.
If anyone has any good links on this topic or even better knows the code I need insert into my program I would be highly greatful.
cheers
-ipatch

See http://www.centerkey.com/mac/java/

Best dock application?

Hi, I wanted to know which of all the dock applications out there its the best, I currently use the gnome-do docky theme but it lacks some features, and sometimes icons are very ugly.
I have heard about cairo-dock and Avant Window Navigator, but I guess there are a lot more. Well I dont know which app to install, so I wanted to hear some feedback from you guys to decide which one to install.
thanks in advance

flamelab wrote:Docky is standalone for some months as far as I know. Try docky-bzr from AUR.
That was one of the thing I was confused about, people talk about the gnome do docky theme and docky pretty much like the same app and I didnt know why. Now I get it, the theme was so successfull they decided to do a standalone app for it. I like docky a lot but dont know how to integrate it with gnome do, is there anyway to do it? For example, with gnome do dock I was able to search for anything and then hit the + sign, with docky I cant, is there a way to do this?
regards
PS: docky is in communityu repo, the docky-bzr in the AUR you mentioned, is it a newer version or a rework or something like that?

Icon not showing up in dock Applications menu

This isn't a problem that affects the functionality of my laptop, but it just annoys me and I wondered if anyone knew how to fix it!
I installed a new program, and it works just fine. But the "correct" icon for the program does not appear in the Applications menu. It looks normal on the dock, but the icon in both Applications menus (in the Finder and on the dock) is some kind of error/default icon. It looks like a piece of paper with a pencil covered by a white circle with a line through it (as in the symbol on a 'no smoking' sign.)
Does anyone know how I can get the icon of the actual program to appear here? Thanks!

I just hit this problem as well, earlier this week when my MacBook keyboard stopped responding, so I expected it had something to do with a problem with the hardware or software on my laptop.
Now that I'm doing some diagnostics on the drive and the hardware, I am NOT finding any kind of specific problem that would be causing icons to stop showing in the Dock. As others have clarified, this problem is NOT that icons show up as "not allowed" with the circle-strikethrough icon, but that the application does not appear *at all* - the spot below the icon indicating that the application is running appears, but the application icon will not display. I have had this issue with both applications that are running and applications that have been quit, and either state change can cause the icons to disappear, but I can't find a way to reliably reproduce the issue. Icons just appear or disappear seemingly at random.
Once the surface scan is complete on the drive I've been using as my main boot drive, I'll try the "move-app-from-Apps-folder, then-back-again" trick to see if it gets the icons to appear again.

MCX to Configure Client Dock Applications best Practice?

I want to use WGM preferences to manage which applications show up on a user's dock when they login. The server does not have the same applications installed as the client machines thus do not show up as an available option to add using WGM.
_The Question:_ *Is is bizarre to install client applications on the server so it may be available to to add to a user's dock preference in WGM?*
Currently I'm using changes I've made to the default user template as a work around to getting the dock configured to our needs. Not my favorite way to administer 6 labs, but functional right now. If it's okay, I was thinking about installing all the software we use on our client machines on the server.
Is there a better way of managing the dock for clients in a multiple lab environment?

Run the WGM application from a workstation that has the same applications installed in the same locations as on your client workstations. Do not make changes to the user templates on the server or the workstations. When setting the preferences for the user's dock, do not select the checkbox, 'Merge with User's Dock', as that combines the customized settings you create with the dock settings from the user template.

Finder Opens When I Left Click Any Dock Application

When I wake my system up from Sleep, I have a problem that occurs intermittently. When I left click any icon on the dock, ie. Mail, Finder opens and the Mail application is highlighted. Mail does not open. If I double-click on the application in Finder at that point, the application opens just fine. Has anyone else had this problem?
By the way, I have updated to Tiger 10.4.7, but the problem has occured prior to the update.
Intel iMac 20" 2GB RAM 250GB HD 256MB Video Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Intel iMac 20" 2GB RAM 250GB HD 256MB Video Mac OS X (10.4.6)

When I wake my system up from Sleep, I have a problem
that occurs intermittently. When I left click any
icon on the dock, ie. Mail, Finder opens and the Mail
application is highlighted. Mail does not open. If
I double-click on the application in Finder at that
point, the application opens just fine. Has anyone
else had this problem?
By the way, I have updated to Tiger 10.4.7, but the
problem has occured prior to the update.
Intel iMac 20" 2GB RAM
250GB HD 256MB Video Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Intel iMac
20" 2GB RAM 250GB HD 256MB Video Mac OS X
(10.4.6)
Yes, I had the same problem and also it was an intermittent problem. I was having trouble with Safari and Mail which I used most often. Sometimes after a while it wouldn't give me the problem but usually I would restart and it would work, but later after my computer was asleep it would give me the problem again. I was even having problems with Safari opening windows in a new tab and not the same window even though it was set to open in the same window.
Solution: Drag the preferences 'plist' for the 'finder', 'dock', and 'desktop' to the desktop and restart. You will have to reset your preferences, but the only one that took any time was the 'dock', because I have a lot of apps there. You might even want to try one at a time to see which one might be the corrupt list. /users/your name/Library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist/
Hope this helps you, I don't think anything is wrong with your mouse or your mouse button settings.
Really like Edmonton also.
Jerry D

Within minutes of reboot, apps won't open from the dock, Applications folder or Launchpad. Already running apps appear unaffected. What should I do?

I installed Lion on my late-2009 Mac Mini a few weeks ago. Within the last week, a strange problem has cropped up. Just a few minutes after reboot, my Mac Mini stops opening applications. I can try to open applications from the dock, or the Applications folder, or Launchpad, and nothing opens. Applications that have already been opened appear to be unaffected, as long as I don't close them. If I quit an application, I cannot re-open it.
This does not appear to be related to any updates or changes. The problem began while my Mac Mini was on 10.7.1, and persisted after an upgrade to 10.7.2.

Hello, how exactly did you move these other files, & what were they?
Open the Applications folder, does iMovie & iPhoto work from there?

Missing dock applications

I am having some weird issues... Logged in to my laptop last night and saw a question mark over Safari, and I couldn't open it. Did some googling, ran "repair disk permissions" in disk utility, restarted my computer and now I have question marks instead of icons for Safari, Mail and Preview. I know that the question marks mean that the application is missing (and they are indeed missing when I go into the applications folder, and there seem to be several other apps missing, but I am not sure what, I just see lots of blank spaces where apps used to be.) I know for a fact that I did not go and delete these apps, I was using safari all day Sunday, then it was gone when I tried to use it last night.
I am just at a loss for what to do now. I have firefox installed, so am still able to get online using that. Any suggestions??

Drag the ? marked application out of your dock to the Desktop- they will go puff.
- they will never work once they have a ? on them.
I would then do a shutdowm for 5 minutes and a cold restart.
Then "Repair permission" again and maybe a second time.
Then when you have your icon back for the applications
- then drag them back into the dock from the application folder..

Dock applications are not minimizing on themselves anymore

Did some updates last night, don't know if it's related or not. Anyways, the apps don't minimize onto themselves anymore but instead minimize to the right of the trash. In dock preferences I have "minimize windows into application icon" checked still...I need it to go back, help please!

This is set in System Preferences / Dock

Dock - Application Icons

I haven't been able to find a simillar problem but wondered if anyone could give me some help?
When I open an Application, the icon for that application does not appear in the dock. Could this be a corrupted file or is it just me and they never have displayed in the dock. I am using Spaces and Expose and wondered if that might be the problem.
Thanks in advance

Roger hasn’t responded for a while (maybe went to sleep since it was logged at 4 AM) so I’ll try to help.
You don’t need to delete the .plist files, just move them out of the Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences folder (moving them to the desktop is usually the most convenient). Then for the system to create new .plist files, a restart or log-out/in is usually needed.
The advantage of moving the .plist files to the desktop is that if after the restart it didn’t fix the problem, you can move the old .plist files back to the Preferences folder, replacing the newly created ones, and you will have your old preferences back without needing to restore what you had.

Safari has disappeared from my dock & applications

Not sure why but when I turned on my MacBook Pro this morning I found the Safari logo looking like this
So I dragged it out of the dock and proceeded to the application folder to only find it missing from there too.
I tried downloading/installing Safari 5 from Apples website but got an error message.
How do I go about re-storing it?

I suppose you really mean OS X 10.6.8 as you wouldn't be able to run iOS on a Mac.
Try downloading and installing the 10.6.8 update combo. You can find it on the Apple Downloads site.

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