The problem I am trying to solve is quite simple.
When I open the lid of my MacBook I like to have the Dock on the left side of the screen, but when I get home and connect my MacBook to my Cinema display and set up dual monitors, I want the dock on the bottom of the Cinema, not on the left side of the MacBook.
I don’t want to have to go in to preferences every time I connect/disconnect my Cinema display.
I have a solution for 50% of the problem, namely, I have written the following Applescript code to switch the location of the Dock based upon my screen resolution, but I have to manually invoke it.
tell application "Finder"
-- Determine Resolution
set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop
set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize
set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize
end tell
if screenWidth is less than 1900 then
--MacBook Display
tell application "System Events"
tell dock preferences
set properties to {magnification:true, screen edge:left}
end tell
end tell
else
--Cinema Display
tell application "System Events"
tell dock preferences
set properties to {magnification:true, screen edge:bottom}
end tell
end tell
end if
My questions are:
Can I hook this code in to OSX sleep/wake events directly within Applescript? Is there some place where you can "register" scripts to be invoked on OS events that I am not aware of?
If not directly, what are some other options for hooking in to OSX events?
Do you have any recommendations for improving the above Applescript code?
Thanks.