Dock icon - data update

[J. Landman Gay]

Karen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering whether there is any way in Revolution to show text  on 
> the dock icon in Mac OS X?  I'm updating my Stock Portfolio  program and 
> one of the neat features that has been suggested is the  ability to see 
> (say) the current value of your portfolio on the dock  icon.  Since it 
> is very platform specific, I wasn't sure whether  Revolution could do it...

Yes, you should be able to do it. Revolution has a global property 
called the "icon" which, if set, specifies the icon that is displayed in 
the OS X dock. You could write a script that takes a snapshot of a small 
image containing the text you want to show, and then set the icon to the 
id of that image. If you do this repeatedly using a "send in <time>" 
structure, the icon would update dynamically.

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