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

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.