Jeff: Yep, the taskbar dock was on the left and the sys tray on the top. Both under 128. Thanks for your work. OD+ has been an indispensable program for me since it was very first released (in beta). I love it. Thanks again.

I'm seeing something that Lotherius mentioned in reply #58: The mouse cursor occasionally freezes while OD+ is running. It usually happens when applications (including OD itself) are in the process of displaying menus. Once the complete menu is displayed, the mouse cursor un-freezes.

rickbert: does the mouse cursor itself freeze? or does just ObjectDock's zoomign freeze? Thanks!

With regard to the freezing, I've found that having "Reserve edge of screen" turned on causes far more freezing/stuttering that with it off. I've also observed the Start button being constantly redrawn during the stuttering.
OD is configured with a normal dock on the bottom (showing some shortcuts & running tasks) and a tabbed dock on the top edge set to auto hide. "Reserve edge of screen" was set for the bottom dock. This is all on Vista Ultimate 32bit if it matters.

A couple of other issues I've noted:
1) On XP, when the screensaver comes on it seems to kill OD
2) Certain systray apps do not respond to either double-click or displaying their context menus e.g. Windows Live Messenger.

JMBdev: As Lotherius responded, the mouse cursor itself freezes temporarily. I am using a single zooming bar, normal layering, no tasks in the bar, and "Reserve edge of screen" is unchecked. This is an XP machine with Intel graphics and a Logitech mouse. Version 1.58(.008 is the last version that does not exhibit mouse freezing for me.

JMBdev: Tried on Windows XP both with and without the tray and can't say that there is much to choose between them, although, for me at least, the effect is not as noticable on XP as it is on Vista.
I'll try it on Vista later when I get home from work.

I am recieving same bugs on both vista ultimate and xp home.

If the dock is place anywhere but at the bottom it does not work properly.It is near impossible to click icons if dock is place on sides. You have to fumble around and hit it just right to get it to launch.Also on xp with dock at bottom the taskbar is having issues unhiding.I normally use auto hide not the hide function from the dock.

Koasti: XP or Vista? Wireless or plugged? Thanks

Yeah new build is coming today. Feature-complete so hoping this can be a final beta, we'll see how it goes. Amoung some other things, there is a new "Troubleshooting" dialog that should allow for quicker troubleshooting of problems by providing quick-access to disabling abilities of ObjectDock. Hopfully this will help us out in troubleshooting the mouse-lagging problem some have seen

JMBdev: Right, done some more testing. I'm not sure that XP is so much of an issue now - maybe it was an earlier build as it seemed fine all afternoon.
As to Vista, I've managed to get a reproducible scenario where the cursor lag/stutter is in effect:
Set OD to Reserve edge of screen & Always on top (in fact just doing that causes some lag)
Start Internet Explorer and then immediately launch Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc. If you move the mouse at all, then it lags all over the screen.
Observations on the above:
The IE icon remains in the "Bounced" state until the lag has stopped
The Task Manager icon does not appear until the lag has stopped, although its window does
With IE running, starting Task Manager it takes approx 20 secs for the lagging to stop & the icon to appear. Closing Task Manager takes around 13 secs, and, although the icon disappears straight off, the space it occupies remains with the lagging.

The other most notable area fo lagging is when playing movie files, although this is not as readily reproducable as the above.

Set OD to not reserve the edge & Hide off screen when not in use and all is fine. It also doesn't make any noticable difference whether the tray is on or off, or if Docklets are disabled (don't think I'm running any anyway)

Hope the above is of some use!

Lortherius/Samurai/rickbert: the laggy mouse problem has been solved! I'm going to update again tomorrow evening (Wednesday) with the fix. I think that was the last major problem we were seeing, was it not? Did I miss anything? Last build takes care of everything else pretty much I feel. (Yes I know, the troubleshooting button isn't hooked up properly if you click it from a *tabbed* dock's properties dialog )

-Jeff

I put this in its own entry, but then I saw this thread....


Bug with OD+ 1.6.532u
Start Menu Control on secondary monitor popup is weird
By Foobie
Posted April 17, 2007 23:25:17
OD+ Bug: Start Menu Control on secondary monitor popup is buggy/erratic.

How to reproduce:
1) Have dual monitor setup under vista ultimate, nvidia video card, object dock plus latest beta (see title
2) Move OD to *secondary monitor* on the bottom of the display.
3) Add "New 'Start Menu' Entry to bar
4) Click on new start menu icon.

When you click on the icon, the icon will either appear in one of three places, depending on where you click on it:

1) Off the bottom of the screen on the secondary monitor (the upper left hand corner of the menu appears at the click point). It first flickers in the right position (#3 below) before going into this bad position.
2) On the primary monitor on the far right hand side (not desirable)--not on the secondary monitor at all. It does flicker in the right position first (#3 below) before moving, usually.
3) In the correct position, where the click point is the lower left hand corner of the start menu on the secondary monitor. This happens rarely.


Please advise, or let me know if i can provide more info. I love this program!

I'm running XP Pro SP2 with cursorXP ATI AllInWonderX800 Logitech wireless MXLaser100 Mouse. Even with the new update The mouse slows down when you open a new menue or window or starting a new program. Seems to work fine after starting.The Scrolling function is verry jerky not smooth like it should be. The dock itself with all functions seems to work fine. I Have a Majong game that wont play at all because the mouse seems to move all over when you try to play. Not sure if the game is a related issue but it worked fine before the last couple of updates.

Hello
With the latest build (532u) by OD+ is now working again (i had the same problem of BlueDev) but it seems to have a little bug affecting flyout menus: after clicking its icon, the flyout shows up, but the outmost icons seems to be _under_ the dock instead of hovering above it (as if being on a lower layer, so to say). After a complete turn of the wheel, though, all comes back to normal. My machine is running WinXP SP2

P.S.: OD+ is really a nice piece of work, thank you for this software and your time spent on all these feedbacks