So it’s been a few months since my last update and since then Dock Library has had a steady stream of people downloading it. We’re not talking stratospheric figures here, but a few hundred a week. This would probably be more if I got a listing on the Apple downloads site but I’m not sure Apple would approve of what Dock Library does.
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Wow! Dock Library was only up for a few hours before reaching 1000 downloads! Now this may not be the kind of astronomical figures Mars Edit or Delicious Library probably reach, but considering the amount of “advertising” I did about it (nothing apart from what you see on my blog), I reckon that’s pretty good. Maybe I’ve hit the right price point or something
Of course now I have more than a handful of users someone reported an bug with the import of zipped styles so I’ve had to do a quick update to fix it (v0.05). Apart from that I’ve heard nothing but good things. To be honest, hearing anything at all warms the old cockles a bit.
Onwards and upwards.
I’m pleased to be able to announce that Dock Library is now available as a free download. Head on over to the Dock Library site to grab yourself a copy.
Dock Library takes the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock. Downloaded styles from sites such as LeopardDocks.com or LeopardDocks.net can be easily imported into Dock Library. Armed with a nice collection of dock styles, you’re a simple click away from changing the look of your dock. No hunting through hidden system directories, just select the dock you want and click “Set Dock”.
Dock Library also automatically backs up your default dock so you can always return to it whenever you want.
It’s no secret that I’ve been messing around with Cocoa development for a while in my spare time. Well I’ve finally got something that may actually be useful to some people. More useful than the millions of “TestApp1″ type applications that clutter my development directory anyway.
May I introduce you to Dock Library.
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My previous post on hiding disclosure triangles in an NSOutlineView was picked up by the Apple Cocoa Dev mailing list. It seems my solution was a good approach which is great, but a couple of improvements were suggested.
Firstly, a more standard way to avoid the compiler warning when calling un-defined selectors would be to implement a category on NSObject.
Secondly, the signature of the selector should probably change so that it won’t conflict if Apple ever decide to implement a method of the same name. For example, if I was to give my subclassed NSOutlineView class the name PCOutlineView, the signature should be something like pcOutlineView:shouldShowDisclosureTriangleForItem:
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