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Authored by: robg on Oct 06, '01 05:38:47PM

The problem is that, as of 10.1, docklings don't seem to have much of a future -- Apple has killed the dockling server, and they don't include any of their own any more. They're encouraging developers to provide feedback via the application's icon in the dock (ala the new iTunes), so someone would have to write a full-blown app.

At least, that's my understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong!).

-rob.



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Authored by: bhines on Oct 08, '01 09:53:42PM

Yes, that's true that docklings are gone, but I don't see what all the fuss is about. A "full blown application" is in some ways, easier to make than a dockling. Cocoa is incredibly simple. It really is an amazing framework.

The advantage of getting rid of docklings (and why it makes a lot of sense) is that docklings all shared the dockling server's memory space. Thus any dockling could crash the dock. Bad. Also they didn't get default usage of OSX's awesome threading capabilities. Putting them in apps is win-win.

-Ben



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