ObjectDock 1.9 released

Faster, Prettier, Easier to use, and more usable!

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Stardock has released ObjectDock 1.9.  ObjectDock is a free program that adds a configurable, skinnable dock to Windows.  Once installed, users can add short-cuts, display running tasks, and add mini-applets called docklets to their docks that can display weather information, time, system info, or much anything else.

ObjectDock 1.9 adds a host of new features including a Start menu docklet (for bringing up the real Start menu in the system tray), live thumbnail previews on Windows Vista, a new weather docklet, minimize and restore effects on Windows Vista, free-form screen positioning, a new graphics engine for massively better performance, reduce memory requirements, new tileable dock backgrounds, and much more.

ObjectDock is a free download at http://www.objectdock.com.  Stardock also has ObjectDock Plus which adds support for multiple docks, tabbed docks, system tray support, additional mouse-over effects and more.

Article: ObjectDock gets a facelift
 Screenshot: Tileable dock backgrounds
 Screenshot: Start Menu docklet
 Screenshot: ObjectDock explained
Download: ObjectDock 1.9

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ZubaZ
Reply #21 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:22 PM
the "ram and CPU" docklet also doen't work (it craches the program when I try to use it)
What docklet?  I don't see a RAM or CPU default docklet on my default install.

the "windows start" docklet doesn't work. Everytime I try to use it, objectdock ask me to "try later"... strange.
Have you rebooted?

seldomseen
Reply #22 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:57 PM
  I want a RAM and CPU docklet  ...isn't one on the docklets list...oh well

xDeVsFaN1830x
Reply #23 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:14 PM
NICE JOB guys. but can ANYONE from the stardock team tell me when u plan to add 64-bit vista support so can use the start menu docklet and the system tray features PLEAAAAAASE.

Nikay
Reply #24 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:59 PM
Weather does not pick up Canberra, Australia

It did in the other version, any tricks to getting this set up?

Kinger
Reply #25 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:09 PM
No problems here. Everything works like a dream. Even fixed some odd problems I'd been havivg for a while.Thanks to all

Nikay
Reply #26 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:11 PM
I even tried the location ID for the weather docklet, and still no go

Thanks for the hard work you guys put into this.

ALMonty
Reply #27 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:12 PM
I setup my docks with some of the new docklets and saved the theme. When I went to apply it to see if everything was saved it gave me a dock on the bottom with nothing on it. I went into programs\stardock\objectdock\themes folder and it wasn't there, so I did a search for it and found it Documents\Objectdock Library\Backup and the .ini file was 2kb when I opened it up it had nothing todo with my docks or my settings.

So how do you save themes? and I never understood why there is an ObjeckDock Library in the docs folder when all my icons and pngs are in the programs folder.

It did crash on me a few times: Crash Dump with the following error MDMPҤ(Q

Delgc
Reply #28 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:10 PM
Guys,

I've found a way to solve the IE slow problem. In the Objectdock properties/General/"Troubleshooting Options" check both the "System Hooks" checkboxes.

Thanks that, my IE is OK again.

Del.

rslima78
Reply #29 Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:35 AM
What docklet? I don't see a RAM or CPU default docklet on my default install.



the "RAM docklet" was part of the previous version of object dock. When I installed the 1.9 version, it kept the previous docklets in the list.


Have you rebooted?


Yes, I rebooted. always says: "ObjectDock was unable to find the start menu to show. Can not show start menu at this time, please try again."

bilbo1930
Reply #30 Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:50 AM
Od 1.9 plus, like rlsima78
My vista machine the original startmenu docklet doesn't work. Everytime I try to use it, objectdock ask me to "try later"... strange.
But startmenu v2 docklet by AndreasV , work fine.

rslima78
Reply #31 Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:08 AM
But startmenu v2 docklet by AndreasV , work fine


It worked. thanks!

Life is a Game
Reply #32 Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:51 AM
job well done stardock   

it does seem to work much smoother then before   

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #33 Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:08 AM

Verrrry smooth zooming   

Couple of small niggles. The start menu docklet sometimes triggers DEP in XP and the weather docklet doesn't work for locations outside the US.


bilbo1930
Reply #34 Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:25 AM

weather docklet doesn't work for locations outside the US.

Fuzzy ! Work fine for me here in Europe .
Just build startmenu don't work



bobbyhundreds
Reply #35 Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:03 AM
I've been looking forward to this and it certainly doesn't disappoint.Great stuff!  

firstandonly
Reply #36 Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:11 AM
Fantastic... Love the new upgrades and features - I wouldn't be without this program now and have it installed on my computers at home and work. One quick question though... Any chance of released a full icon pack for the new bundled icons, coz they're great!

JDavidHarper
Reply #37 Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:05 AM
This is awesome. I love the fact that the thumbnails for the taskbar are "live." As I scroll up and down a webpage, the little firefox icon's thumbnail image scrolls up and down too! That's really neat.

reverse84
Reply #38 Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:17 AM
How can you do that? Are you using plus?

whiterabbit007
Reply #39 Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:35 AM
I think that's a vista feature. On XP, even with plus, it only displays the contents of a window when it's minimized so it just basically takes a screenshot of it. I still love that feature, that and the "show only minized windows in taskbar" option - before that I never used the taskbar in object dock because it would get very big very quick but with this thing it's actually usable now. Kudos!

I found a small bug though - if you set it to hide off screen on maximized applications, it doesn't restore the dock if the maximized application has been minimized and no other windows are open. If there's another window that is not minimized then the dock comes back.

reverse84
Reply #40 Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:00 AM
I'm using Vista, and i can't get live thumbnails only with windows media player. Is that an OD+ feature?

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