Dock Wars

[Dan T. Abell]

Restarting the machine fixed the problem.
(Don't know if just logging out and in would have worked, too.)

Thanks!

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 12:16  PM, Scott M wrote:

> I am not sure why this happens, but I don't think it's an OmniWeb
> issue, more likely a Finder/Dock issue.  I have seen this myself
> before; a logout/login (or maybe a restart?) should clear up the
> issue.  You might just try killing the Finder and the Dock as well to
> see if that helps.  Process Viewer in /Applications/Utilities/ is
> great for this, just highlight the process name and then choose Quit
> Process from the Processes menu.
>
> Let me know how it goes for you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Scott
> Support Engineer
> The Omni Group
>
> On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:14  AM, Dan T. Abell wrote:
>
>> Okay, maybe the subject line IS a tad extreme, but ...
>>
>> I just downloaded OmniWeb 4.2.  It looks good, so now I want to
>> access OW 4.2 from my dock.  This is supposed to be easy!
>>
>> I moved OW4.1 to my OldApps directory and put OW4.2 in Applications.
>> On my dock I removed my old OW icon and dragged a copy of the new
>> (v.4.2) OW's icon to my dock.  Now when I launch OW from the dock,
>> guess what---it's 4.1 that fires up!  Now I have two beautiful OW
>> globes in my dock.
>>
>> If I ask the dock icons to show themselves in the finder, they claim
>> to be what I think they are.  The icon dragged from 4.2 shows me
>> OW4.2 in the finder; the icon for the running app shows me 4.1 in the
>> finder.
>>
>> Now I ask the running app (4.1) to keep its icon on the dock.  When I
>> quit OW, I still have the two icons in my dock OW4.1 and 4.2.  Now if
>> I click on one icon, it's the other one that bounces up and down: the
>> 4.1 icon launches 4.2 and vice versa!
>>
>> What's wrong with this picture?
>>
>> 	-Dan
>> --
>> Dan T. Abell  <dabell at bikerider.com>
>> A dog is just a dog until he's standing right
>> in front of you; and then he's Mr. Dog.
>>
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