Make Mac Dock icon bounce

General JUCE discussion
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Hi, is there any way to do this from JUCE so that an app running in the background can notify the user that something needs to be addresses?

Thx

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Does this help?
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsapplication/1428358-requestuserattention

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This isn’t supported directly. A more modern alternative would be to use the PushNotification support to tell the user a bit about the event.

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thx - intersting about the push notifications but if that just puts a banner up in the corner of the screen I find that quite easy ignore for something urgent that requires attention.

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thx, yes - saw this, just wondered if it was supported natively. thx

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Code if anyone else is interested:

#import <AppKit/AppKit.h>

void bounce_dock_icon( void ) {
   NSApplication *app = [NSApplication sharedApplication];
   [app requestUserAttention:NSCriticalRequest];
}
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