NSAlert without bouncing dock icon

Question

If you put up an NSAlert while your app is in the background your dock icon starts bouncing and keeps on bouncing until you switch back.

I find this annoying.

Does anyone know how disable that for a single app?

Answer 1

Not that I'd recommend it, but there is a Haxie that may help: Dock Detox.

They allow you to intercept the bouncing and do other stuff, I think.

A quick google showed up:

- (void)cancelUserAttentionRequest:(int)request

But I really don't know if this will work for your purposes.

Answer 2

Create your own subclass of NSApplication, and implement something like this:

- (int)requestUserAttention:(NSRequestUserAttentionType)requestType
    {
        if (dontDoThatBouncyThing) {
            return 0;
        }
        return [super requestUserAttention:requestType];
    }

Don't forget to change "NSPrincipalClass" in your Info.plist from NSApplication to your own NSApplication subclass.