the dock

[nikki]

Hi, does anyone know how to get a program to bounce when its in the background and needs attention.

Thanks

[Bruce_F]

Is it not working with any one application or to all of them?

Are you talking about Jaguar or Panther? If Panther... did you Repair Permissions after installing it?

[nikki]

I'm running panther, and i did repair permissions.
Is there a setting some where as it doesn't work with any app that I've used

 

[kelly]

Don't know.

Try Apple Menu > Dock > Dock Preferences.

Turn On/Off Animate Opening Animations.

Assuming it's still there.

[giantmike]

I don't think that's what nikki means. I think she is looking to have the icon bounce once when an application creates an error, or needs attention (say the page you were trying to load in Safari timed out or you got a new IM in iChat).

I don't not think there is a system wide setting for this effect. It is indivual application controlled.

That said, I know of no "fix" for this behavior.

[kelly]

Yeah Mike. I knew what she meant.

Just a case of try anything.

[Mrious_be]

QUOTE(giantmike @ Oct 26 2003, 4:08 PM)

I think she is looking to have the icon bounce once when an application creates an error, or needs attention.

 I'm not sure on Panther, but on Jaguar this is what i did for such a thing:
Go to your Speech preferences.
Select the "Spoken User Interface"
Check the box "Anounce when a program needs your attention".
This does NOT need to have Speech activated, it works  on it's own.

What happens now, when a program runs in background while you are doing something else, and it needs your attention it will come up with an allert (you can random put an allert message in).
Note: it does NOT work when an application stopped responding.
A force quit from the contextual menu in the dock is the only thing that helps (or through the shortcuts).