Friday, November 9, 2007

The Mysteries of iCal, Revealed!

Jens Ayton:

One of the minor yet shiny new features of Mac OS X 10.5 is that iCal’s dock icon now shows the correct date even when iCal is not running. Some assumed this to be hard-coded functionality in the dock, but a few brave souls—well, one, being me—decided to find out. The following lines in iCal’s Info.plist are a bit of a hint…

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[...] Via Michael Tsai: Predictably, someone looked into how Leopard’s Dock manages to keep iCal’s icon up-to-date so that it always shows the current date – even when iCal itself is not running. [...]

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