Actually, no. If the Carbon app uses a bundle, you can add that key/value pair to its Info.plist and it works fine. If not, you should be able to add the relevant information to its 'plst' resource. I just did it with iTunes (which is a bundle), and it worked fine.

Unfortunately, there's a side effect - no menubar. Good for LaunchBar, which is designed to have its menubar hidden, but not so good for Joe Random Program.

I seem to remember there is another key you can use, something like "ShowInDock", that -just- removes it from the dock, not anything else. Can't find it now though.

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"If not, you should be able to add the relevant information to its 'plst' resource."

uh... like... how do you do this?

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What I did - (to get rid of dock icon for PiDock)

• make a copy of PiDock.
• Open ResEdit (works just fine in Classic)
• Open PiDock in ResEdit
• Open the plst resource
• To the right you see scrunched up xml. Select one of the key/string pairs that's there including the "^" delimiter and paste it in next to itself.
• change the value of the key element to NSUIElement
• change the value of the string element to 1
• save it, close it, launch it.
• Voila. No dock icon.

cool.

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In Jaguar, they have apparently changed the plist item named NSUIElement to LSUIElement. Although NSUIElement still works, you should begin to switch to the new terminology.

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Does this still work in Panther? I've tried setting NSUIElement and LSUIElement to 1 in wClock's Info.plist file, and wClock still shows up in my dock.

Scott

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The NSUIElement works with wClock, but I had to log out and log back into my account before it would hide the dock icon.

The only thing was that I not only lost the menu bar but I lost the ability to call up the calendar as well.

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I am not a guru and i wanted just that outlook express icon doesn't appear on the dock when the application has been opened.
I haven't found any .plist file that refers to outlook express, and opening the .app file with resedit i can't find any "plist resource".
Isn't there a normal way to persecute this simple aim? (I am a windows programmer and with that terrible OS all this things are very simple to do)
thanks (I am really getting crazy for this problem)

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