'Oscar the Grouch'

[adambyte]

It's not that animation isn't possible in a dock icon. The problem is that, how do you animate a grouch coming out of it, without making the trashcan itself any smaller?

Agreed. Tricky coding. There must have been some tricky coding in the first one, too.

Truly the work of a master.

[albloom]

Oscar the Grouch was retired when the Muppetmasters' attorneys
screamed bloody murder. Many years and OS's ago.

[Krevinek]

Well, the coding for the OS9 one was simple: find the location of the desktop item for the trash can, and then draw the animation OVER the icon rather than replace it. It wasn't very tricky and used some pretty standard calls. You will also notice it completely locked your machine while it ran, hinting that it was simply an animation it was drawing by hand.

[kainjow]

Hmm you could do the same thing then... just find the height of the Dock (via plist?) and then estimate width and height of trash icon from there and draw into a transparent window placed directly over the trash's icon.. but if you did anything to the dock while the animation was running it'd get all jacked up, unless it autoresized with the dock.... pretty much a waste of anyone's time

[roystonlodge]

Sorry for posting to such an old thread, but I thought y'all might be interested in the workaround (cheap-ass substitute?) for the classic Oscar app that I set up on my Mac Mini. You can download it (for free of course) at my website www.stephengilman.ca.