ObjectDock BETA 2 (0.51) now available
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
A new version of ObjectDock is now available. ObjectDock is a program that provides a taskbar and launchbar and does it with style by allowing for very interesting visual effects for mouse overs. It's inspired by the MacOS X dock.New in this version is a new magnification option for mouse overs (not on by default, go to settings to change it) along with significantly faster performance, slightly less memory usage and several new display options.
The website is www.objectdock.com.
ObjectDock is freeware. Please feel free to post this news elsewhere.
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Emmitt_Nervend
Reply #23 Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:25 PM
Reply #23 Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:25 PM
This little beauty is an example ofwhy I am happy to be a paying ODN user: very useful apps that are also lovely eyecandy! My OSX-look system is finally complete! 
As far as my needs go, all I need is the option to auto-hide the dock, or at least make "always on top" an option.
As far as my needs go, all I need is the option to auto-hide the dock, or at least make "always on top" an option.
dyoda
Reply #24 Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:17 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:17 PM
Excellent! I can whip up an ObjectBar that give me a start button and a systray, but the only thing I miss is being able to right-click on individual items to close/maximize/minimize them.
Teikoshen
Reply #25 Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:33 PM
Reply #25 Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:33 PM
same here dyoda. i need a systray and start button.. oh an being able to save themes function would be nice 
instead of crashing and have to recustomizing it *hoping that for the next update *
i notice that the feature that "Allow windows to take screenshot " feature causes some programs to crash, winamp3 is one of them. When that is unchecked however, things run pretty smoothly
instead of crashing and have to recustomizing it *hoping that for the next update *i notice that the feature that "Allow windows to take screenshot " feature causes some programs to crash, winamp3 is one of them. When that is unchecked however, things run pretty smoothly
tww
Reply #26 Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:22 PM
Reply #26 Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:22 PM
I'm really at a loss as to why every one is so excited about this program; after all it just an animated launch bar. Its pretty; but as far as being useful it does not even begin to compare to a program like PowerPro. If Stardock wants to do something that is more than "eye-candy" why don't they buy the rights to PowerPro incorperate it into ObjectDock and sell it to us. Of course I guess they could respond that eye-candy is there game and they have made millions at it thank-you very much.
No-I am not the author of powerPro nor am I in any way affliated with it other than being a long time PowerPro user.
I don't really mean to rain on anyone's parade - I just don't get why anyone would be thrilled with ObjectDock.
No-I am not the author of powerPro nor am I in any way affliated with it other than being a long time PowerPro user.
I don't really mean to rain on anyone's parade - I just don't get why anyone would be thrilled with ObjectDock.
c242
Reply #27 Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:00 PM
Reply #27 Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:00 PM
Need PNG's ? 
http://www.planetnexiz.com/clotz2005/webpages.charter.net/clotz2005/index-1.htm
http://www.planetnexiz.com/clotz2005/webpages.charter.net/clotz2005/index-1.htm 
jark
Reply #28 Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:40 PM
Reply #28 Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:40 PM
another odd thing that i have noticed with objectdock is that if my screensaver activates and i come back to the computer later then objectdock is no longer running. it just goes bye bye all by itself. this happens both on windows xp and windows 2000 boxes of mine. both are running desktopx so i am not sure if it is limited to running objectdock with desktopx or not.
another thing, speaking of desktopx, is that if i first load desktopx, or objectbar, and then attempt to load objectdock the system freezes up and i have to kill the objectdock process. then unload either of those apps, load objectdock and then load one of those apps in order for things to work properly. this is only on the 2000 box though.
another thing, speaking of desktopx, is that if i first load desktopx, or objectbar, and then attempt to load objectdock the system freezes up and i have to kill the objectdock process. then unload either of those apps, load objectdock and then load one of those apps in order for things to work properly. this is only on the 2000 box though.
ladyluck
Reply #29 Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:53 PM
Reply #29 Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:53 PM
Objectdock is working fine, I did notice the Winamp bug myself, but Im sure that will be fixed very soon. As for features, a start menu (system command) would be nice, maybe some type of icon to show grouped browser windows (ie a number next to the globe to indicate the number of grouped items.) Well thats my take so far, animations are fast, work well and easly resizable. Keep up the great work guys and ladies!! 
Frogboy
Reply #30 Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:41 PM
Reply #30 Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:41 PM
ObjectBar takes care of system trays and Start menus. www.objectbar.net.
Autumnmist
Reply #32 Thursday, November 21, 2002 6:15 PM
Reply #32 Thursday, November 21, 2002 6:15 PM
Running: Windows XP Pro, (w/o SP1)
> I have found that when Object Dock crashes, it crashes hard, bringing down
> explorer with it (winxp home, PIV) requiring a cold reboot.
For some reason, ObjectDock crashes when trying to display some icons. I haven't figured out what's doing it yet. One Mozilla icon I have would crash OD, then, OD would attempt to load when I restarted it and it would crash again. When OD crashes, my taskbar stays gone until I reload and unload OD, which is pretty bad (thank goodness for the start button on the keyboard and ctrl-esc), but doesn't require the total reboot.
Great job though!
> I have found that when Object Dock crashes, it crashes hard, bringing down
> explorer with it (winxp home, PIV) requiring a cold reboot.
For some reason, ObjectDock crashes when trying to display some icons. I haven't figured out what's doing it yet. One Mozilla icon I have would crash OD, then, OD would attempt to load when I restarted it and it would crash again. When OD crashes, my taskbar stays gone until I reload and unload OD, which is pretty bad (thank goodness for the start button on the keyboard and ctrl-esc), but doesn't require the total reboot.
Great job though!
Wet Monkey
Reply #33 Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:34 PM
Reply #33 Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:34 PM
I think this is a pretty cool little application but I really wold like to be able to move it to another position on the screen. Hope this comes out in a future version.
Jafo
Reply #34 Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:37 PM
Reply #34 Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:37 PM
Hmmm seems it's more suited to LiteSTEP users....we have our trays handled separately...and I never even see Exploder, so it cannot conflict at all...
MogWaEE
Reply #35 Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:25 PM
Reply #35 Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:25 PM
c242: Thanks for the link!!! Great pngs there! I got my dock looking real sexy now.
SilverSurfer2k2
Reply #36 Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:20 PM
Reply #36 Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:20 PM
This one is good but...... Make it better!!! 
kevinb
Reply #37 Friday, November 22, 2002 9:31 AM
Reply #37 Friday, November 22, 2002 9:31 AM
Great stuff!!!
Possible Bug: Recycle bin no longer shows "full" status. I did change the default images.
Also is there any way to get the icon files to render sharper when zoomed, or will this rely more on png's?
Possible Bug: Recycle bin no longer shows "full" status. I did change the default images.
Also is there any way to get the icon files to render sharper when zoomed, or will this rely more on png's?
kevinb
Reply #38 Friday, November 22, 2002 9:59 AM
Reply #38 Friday, November 22, 2002 9:59 AM
Fixed Recycle Bin Bug = copy config files, delete originals, rename copies to original.
stark23x
Reply #40 Friday, November 22, 2002 10:40 AM
Reply #40 Friday, November 22, 2002 10:40 AM
WOW.
No, seriously...WOW.
I just spent the last 2 hours making png images to use as icons and playing with ObjectDock. Very cool, and very fast and stable, even on my less-than-stellar 16MB graphics card in my laptop.
And of course I just saw the link to all those great png files. Now I feel like a tool.
No, seriously...WOW.
I just spent the last 2 hours making png images to use as icons and playing with ObjectDock. Very cool, and very fast and stable, even on my less-than-stellar 16MB graphics card in my laptop.
And of course I just saw the link to all those great png files. Now I feel like a tool.
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Reply #21 Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:35 AM
The icons window is quite a pain now that I have lots of icons, and it became completely unusable (and occasionally crashed) when I put png's in there.