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Frogboy
kwyjibo
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Reply #26 November 19, 2002 7:01:49 PM
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You don't need me to say it, but I can sleep better at night knowing I've voiced my ideas. So! A few feature requests:

-The mouseover text in the real OSX dock kind of 'falls' behind the dock when focus is lost.
-Custom mouseover fonts
-Custom dock background
-Dock to any edge
-Skinnable context/right-click menus for dock items
-Recycle Bin context menu, with option to empty without having to Explore the bin...
-Custom text shadow direction (X,Y)
-Custom dock transparency
-Autohide

I put a bunch of icon's i've collected in the dock's folder. Naturally, these are high quality, and can be large (120K per icon). If I have a couple hundred of them, things get very slow. It takes a good couple of minutes on my P3-500 to bring up the list of icons when changing one. After I've changed a couple, it slows to a crawl, until I exit OD. Possible memory leak...

On a lighter note, I love it! Thanks a lot.

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Frogboy
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Reply #27 November 19, 2002 9:08:31 PM
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This is wayyyyy kool. Now, make it better!!!
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Frogboy
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Join Date 06/2002
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Reply #28 November 19, 2002 9:25:35 PM
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Now make it available for win98 as well and you got a winner!
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Frogboy
feline
Join Date 04/2001
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Reply #29 November 20, 2002 5:58:00 AM
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this isn't going to replace my beloved ObjectBar, but it is Seriously cool and impressive!
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Frogboy
Garoo
Join Date 07/2001
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Reply #30 November 20, 2002 9:17:19 AM
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One thing would be great: having ObjectDock respond to Alt-Tab.
Feels weird to see all the beautiful icons down there, and then when I want to use Alt-Tab I have the old ugly ones again, so I have to memorize two icons for each running program
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Frogboy
JMB1984
Join Date 03/2001
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Reply #31 November 20, 2002 9:35:05 AM
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Hey I'm glad the dock is working great for all of you New release coming out hopefully today with some nice improvments.

hehe feline: I don't want it to replace your beloved ObjectBar! Actually, I hope to be able to have ObjectDock use ObjectBar for its menuing system at some point.

Garoo: Interesting idea... I wonder how ObjectDock taking over alt-tab would look. Hmmmm.....
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Frogboy
DixonHill
Join Date 07/2001
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Reply #32 November 20, 2002 10:33:48 AM
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Well, while everyone's in the mode of making suggestions, since it seems we're all falling in love with ObjectDock... here's a couple:

1) How about task grouping? If xx number of windows of same app are open at once, group them under one icon, with a little arrow to expand by way of a pop-up menu.

2) If too many windows are open, the dock sometimes sizes itself beyond the edges of the screen. Perhaps the dock could automatically shrink if too many icons are added. Though, task/app grouping might help take care of that problem.

3) Perhaps the "grouping" concept would also allow for grouping apps not just active tasks. That way, I could have an "MS Office" icon or something, with 4 or 5 apps available from the popup menu. This could also allow for pop-up access to the start menu, or tray items.

Just my 2 cents...
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Frogboy
DixonHill
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Reply #33 November 20, 2002 10:44:23 AM
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Sorry to do two posts in a row like this, but in regards to loupy's comment about the custom icons being around 120K or so... I don't know if the performance will be the same on every machine, but I've made a bunch of PNG files that keeps the size low, and the speed is excellent. I have a 1.2GHz and a Radeon 3500 so that probably boosts the graphics performance, but just the same, the PNG's work very well, and my largest one is only 34K.

The easiest way I've found to do it is to open a favorite XP-style icon in GIF Movie Gear, and export the largest frame as a Photoshop file. Open in Photoshop, resize the image if necessary, and save as a PNG file. As long as it's the size of your zoom setting, you'll get a pretty high-res image, even when it scales it down.
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Frogboy
werewolf
Join Date 04/2001
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Reply #34 November 20, 2002 11:49:45 AM
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JMB1984: How will the updates be handled? At www.objectdock.com? or CM or how?
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Frogboy
RoodVargas
Join Date 07/2001
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Reply #35 November 20, 2002 1:18:23 PM
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Looks like starduck is keeping out windows 9x,everything is now xp/Win 2000
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Frogboy
Surj
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Reply #36 November 20, 2002 1:22:20 PM
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>>Looks like starduck is keeping out windows 9x,everything is now xp/Win 2000 <<

perhaps thats because 9x doesnt support any of the kew effects. Upgrade your OS
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Frogboy
Carlitus
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Reply #37 November 20, 2002 1:35:27 PM
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i can resist to post this screenshot (of OjectDock):
http://www.carlitus.net/public/noiaobjdock.jpg

My first 128x128 icons in a OSX like dock under WinXP!



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Frogboy
Frogboy
Join Date 03/2001
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Reply #38 November 20, 2002 1:45:45 PM
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Wow! Very cool!
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Frogboy
DixonHill
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Reply #39 November 20, 2002 2:40:04 PM
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we really need a full-out ObjectDock discussion forum.

Now that beta 0.51 is out... it's great to see that some of our suggestions have been implemented, specifically the label font, and some options for how the magnification is handled.

Keep up the great work, Stardock.... maybe we'll see an objectdock newgroup soon
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Reply #40 November 20, 2002 2:53:31 PM
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0.51 is out ? Rushes away...
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dukeofchutney
Join Date 05/2001
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Reply #41 November 20, 2002 3:15:47 PM
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Eh? Did some one say .51 is out....?

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