Scripting the Dock?

[rmustard]

I have noticed that for several applications it is preferable to change the dock preferences when then application launches (i.e. hide the dock when some application that takes up the whole screen is launched, and then show it when the app quits or is not key.)
would it be possible to do this with apple script?

[Ray_Barber]

Howdy Neighbor, the Dock itself is not a scriptable application, but this can be done via GUI Scripting…

–Click here to open this script in a new Script Editor window.

tell application “System Events” to get name of every application process whose visible is true and name is “Safari”
if the result contains “Safari” then
tell application “Finder” to activate
tell application “System Events”
tell process “Finder”
tell menu bar 1
tell menu “Apple”
tell menu item “Dock”
tell menu 1
click menu item “Turn Hiding On”
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end if

http://scriptbuilders.net

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Be sure to check mark the box for “Enable access for assistive devices” in the Universal Access Preference pane.

[Dennis_Cox]

Or you could use this one line script:

tell application "System Events" to keystroke "d" using {command down, option down}

Greggo, now where in the world do you think I learned that?

[Ray_Barber]

Thanks Dennis, but why do it the easy way if there’s a hard way? ;¬)