Minimize Waiting Operations

Summary: Puts progress windows for waiting operations in the Dock.
Requires: DropDMG 2.7

Description

For better performance, DropDMG creates a maximum of four images or archives at a time. Other operations are queued and are said to be waiting. This script minimizes the progress windows of the waiting operations.

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Script

tell application "DropDMG"
    
set theOperations to every operation whose waiting is true
    
repeat with theOperation in theOperations
        
set w to window of theOperation
        --
write «property minU» instead of "miniaturized", since the latter
        --
conflicts with an AppleScript Studio verb
        
set w's miniaturized to true
    
end repeat
end tell

Last Modified: 2007-08-17

Running the Script

You can use the /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility program to enable Mac OS X’s built-in Script menu. To run the script, just select it from the menu. FastScripts and the free FastScripts Lite provide a similar menu that supports keyboard shortcuts and other features.