Add spacers on left
Last modification: Thursday, June 11, 2009 08:30 pmAdds an element to the left side of the Dock that has a blank icon and does nothing when clicked. The element can be dragged around and can serve as a spacer.
Implementation
-- Check requirementsif requireSystemVersion({__major:10, __minor:5, __revision:0}) is false then return false
-- Ask the user how many spacers to add
set _spacerCount to askForIntegerWithPrompt(localizedString("spacer_count_prompt"), 1)
-- Quit the Dock, allowing recent changes by the user to be saved
tell application "Dock" to quit
repeat 30 times
tell application "System Events" to if (exists process "Dock") is false then exit repeat
delay 0.1
end repeat
-- Launch the Dock
tell application "Dock" to launch
repeat 30 times
tell application "System Events" to if (exists process "Dock") then exit repeat
delay 0.1
end repeat
-- Modify the Dock preferences and restart it
repeat _spacerCount times
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type=\"spacer-tile\";}'"
end repeat
do shell script "killall -hup Dock"
on askForIntegerWithPrompt(_prompt, _default)
activate
repeat
try
return text returned of (display dialog _prompt default answer _default) as integer
on error _eMsg number _eNum
if _eNum = -128 then error _eMsg number _eNum
beep
end try
end repeat
end askForIntegerWithPrompt
on localizedString(_string)
set _supportedLanguages to {"en", "de"}
set _targetLanguage to systemLanguage()
if _targetLanguage is not in _supportedLanguages then
set _targetLanguage to item 1 of _supportedLanguages
end if
set _stringKey to _string & "/" & _targetLanguage
if _stringKey is "spacer_count_prompt/en" then return "Please specify how many spacers you want to add:"
if _stringKey is "spacer_count_prompt/de" then return "Bitte geben Sie an wieviele Trennelemente hinzugefuegt werden sollen:"
end localizedString
on systemLanguage()
try
return first word of (do shell script "defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages")
on error
return "en"
end try
end systemLanguage
on requireSystemVersion(_args)
-- Declare a few additional necessary functions
script RequireSystemVersion_Extras
on systemVersion()
try
-- Use system_profiler command line tool to get the information about the system version
set _spOutput to paragraph 1 of (do shell script "system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType -detailLevel mini | grep 'System Version: '")
-- Remove the label "System Version" from the line
set _prvDlmt to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "System Version: "
set _versionString to text item 2 of _spOutput
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _prvDlmt
-- Find the position of the first numerical character
set _firstNumPosition to false
repeat with _i from 1 to count of _versionString
try
get (character _i of _versionString) as integer
set _firstNumPosition to _i
exit repeat
end try
end repeat
if _firstNumPosition is false then error "No numerical character found."
-- Break the string at the position of the first numerical character
set _prvDlmt to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set _versionString to characters _firstNumPosition thru -1 of _versionString as string
-- Get the text before first space
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set _versionString to text item 1 of _versionString as string
-- Get the text before first space
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
copy (text items of _versionString) to {_major, _minor, _revision}
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _prvDlmt
-- Transform strings to integers
set _major to _major as integer
set _minor to _minor as integer
set _revision to _revision as integer
on error _eMessage
-- Reset the delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _prvDlmt
-- This alternative will work for systems that do not support the do shell script command
set _hex to system attribute "sysv"
-- Get the revision
set _revision to _hex mod 16
set _hex to _hex div 16
-- Get the minor version
set _minor to _hex mod 16
set _hex to _hex div 16
-- Get the major version
set _major1 to _hex mod 16 as string
set _hex to _hex div 16
set _major2 to _hex mod 16 as string
set _hex to _hex div 16
set _major to (_major2 & _major1 as string) as integer
-- Concatenate the version string
set _versionString to (_major as string) & "." & (_minor as string) & "." & (_revision as string)
end try
return {__major:_major, __minor:_minor, __revision:_revision, __string:_versionString}
end systemVersion
on localizedString(_string, _var)
set _supportedLanguages to {"en", "de"}
set _targetLanguage to systemLanguage()
if _targetLanguage is not in _supportedLanguages then
set _targetLanguage to item 1 of _supportedLanguages
end if
set _stringKey to _string & "/" & _targetLanguage
if _stringKey is "requirements_not_met_dialog_title/en" then return "System not supported"
if _stringKey is "requirements_not_met_dialog_title/de" then return "Nicht unterst" & (ASCII character 159) & "tztes System"
if _stringKey is "requirements_not_met_dialog_message/en" then return "This script requires at least system version " & _var & ". "
if _stringKey is "requirements_not_met_dialog_message/de" then return "Dieses Skript erfordert mindestens die Systemversion " & _var & ". "
end localizedString
on systemLanguage()
try
return first word of (do shell script "defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages")
on error
return "en"
end try
end systemLanguage
end script
-- Get the current system version
tell RequireSystemVersion_Extras to set _currentVersion to systemVersion()
-- Check if requirements are met
if (__major of _currentVersion) < (__major of _args) then
set _requirementsMet to false
else if (__major of _currentVersion) = (__major of _args) then
if (__minor of _currentVersion) < (__minor of _args) then
set _requirementsMet to false
else if (__minor of _currentVersion) = (__minor of _args) then
if (__revision of _currentVersion) < (__revision of _args) then
set _requirementsMet to false
else
set _requirementsMet to true
end if
else
set _requirementsMet to true
end if
else
set _requirementsMet to true
end if
if _requirementsMet is false then
-- Display a dialog if requirements are not met
set _requiredVersionString to (__major of _args as string) & "." & (__minor of _args as string) & "." & (__revision of _args as string)
tell RequireSystemVersion_Extras
set _dialogTitle to localizedString("requirements_not_met_dialog_title", null)
set _dialogMessage to localizedString("requirements_not_met_dialog_message", _requiredVersionString)
end tell
activate
try
if (__major of _currentVersion) ≥ 10 and (__minor of _currentVersion) ≥ 4 then
display alert _dialogTitle message _dialogMessage buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" as warning
else
error 1
end if
on error
display dialog _dialogTitle & return & return & _dialogMessage buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" with icon 2
end try
return false
else
return true
end if -- _requirementsMet is false
end requireSystemVersion
