macOS Need help adding an Icon to the dock using "defaults"

[bensonang]

The code below works perfectly in adding an icon to the dock.

NSAppleScript* placeInDock = [[[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"do shell script \"	defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '<dict><key>tile-data</key><dict><key>file-data</key><dict><key>_CFURLString</key><string>/Applications/myFolder/</string><key>_CFURLStringType</key><integer>0</integer></dict></dict><key>tile-type</key><string>directory-tile</string></dict>'\""]] autorelease];

My problem is that when I add the Dock icon, it is a folder and I want it to show as a FOLDER icon, not the stacks.

How do I do this? I tried to add
<key>displayas</key><integer>1</integer>
after <key>tile-data</key> but it does not work. Instead, the code won't work anymore.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[larkost]

The easiest way to do this from the command line would be to use dockutil. For full disclosure I have contributed some code to that project.

 

[kainjow]

Another solution that I've used before Add Item To Dock