Often when I’m working on an app or something I end up running several different versions of it in a short period of time. There’s usually some bug that I’m trying to fix and I want to make sure that the bug occurs in the old version and doesn’t occur in the new version.
Sometimes though I get confused which version I’m running. Is the app in the dock the old version, or the new version or something else?
So today I had an idea: Why not put the version number on the dock tile?
Here’s the code to do it:
if (DEBUG) {
id badgeText = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"D-%@",[[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] valueForKey:@"CFBundleVersion"]];
[[NSApp dockTile] setBadgeLabel:badgeText];
}
This assumes that you’ve got DEBUG defined somehow and that you have an infoDictionary with the relevant keys and values set.
And here’s what it looks like in the dock:
Regular version on the left, development version on the right.
I’m not sure how useful this will actually be, but it seemed a handy trick for development.