Showing contents of a folder maybe?
Friday, February 27, 2009 by Jalida | Discussion: ObjectDock
Hello,
Is it possible either in the free version or the plus version that I can drag a folder from my desktop to object dock and when I mose over it, the contents of that folder would show all the files as their own representive icon?
Basically what the weather dock does now with the way it shows each of the days. I guess you could call it nested menus in a sence. What Im trying to accomplish is simply that I keep folders on my desktop like "games" or "web design" "graphics" etc. And inside of each is the shortcut to individual programs. Well if I were to dump all my short cuts to programs, data etc onto my desktop I'd have too many and would fill the screen.
Well, I want them on the object dock, but putting that many would be too many unless I could put nested icons on the dock that open up the contents of the folder.
Is something like this available in Plus or free?
I don't want to have multiple docks all over my screen, that does nothing for my tastes, I like it all to be in one dock and easily accessible.
Thanks,
P.S, I like objectdock, the only shortcoming it has is no ability to round off icons. And it looks seriously whacked to have some really beautiful object dock base icons along with traditional square windows icons, it makes it downright fugly at times. Would be great to have a program that would take the traditional icons and make them into round 3D looking buttons.
Reply #2 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:40 AM
Edit: Cavan1 had a better answer.(I'm new to OD+)
For the rounded icons,you may want to check out the gallery for an Icon package or two that suits you.Once extracted,they can be put into your OD library and used with ObjectDock,not just with Icon Packager.
Reply #3 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:59 AM
Thanks Wizard1956 the stacks docklet does exactly what I was after.
Cavan1, there is no option for Add > New custom flyout menu in my objectdock. But it's all good, the stacks docket works close enough to how I want it to that it's manageable now.
Yeah when I had a current subscription to object destop or whatever it is called, I use to check out the gallery, I could rarely find icons that were for specific games and or applicaitons that I run, and had to choose nes that for me never really represented the item in question visually like I would have wanted so just went back to the square icons.
Perhaps when I have more time I'll just convert them myself in paintshop pro, do one a week or so and I'll be done at least before Im dead and buried 
Edit Oh, Cavan1 is talking about plus version. I'd have to see how it handles my way of wanting to do things better than the stacker docklet does before wanting to pony out more money to stardock right now.
Reply #4 Friday, February 27, 2009 11:02 AM
I am glad you caught that before I so rudely edited it out,then. I used them when I had OD free and as I said,they work well and reduce the number of icons in your dock. Happy to help out.
Reply #5 Friday, February 27, 2009 1:09 PM
Yes. it is a plus feature; when I want this type of shortcut I tend to use Stacks docklet myself. On my low end system, 2.4 gig celeron, I find the flyouts are very slow to open.
I did not mentions Stacks in my first reply as It was bed time and I did not have a link for in handy.
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Reply #1 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:40 AM
Right click on dock, Add, New custom flyout menu, link to folder you want, you will need to click icon for it to flyout, no mouseover action at this time.
Right click on icon, Dock entry properties, Change image, you can use any icon or .png image you wish too.