Well, it's basically a full on version of the icon transparency option.  If you wanted a REALLY clean desktop, this would let your entire dock be invisible until you moved your mouse into the area.

For me, I think I will use it to replace some semi-transparent fences I have.  I want some things "on hand" but not always in my face and this would be another way to do it.

Similarly, I have a dock of Internet Links that currently auto-hides off the top of my center screen.  This might be an alternative to that...

Pondering and experimenting.    

^ I see, thanks.

Is there a way to close or exit the dock without "unloading" OD+? previous version had right-click and select "exit".

Edit: Nevermind (again )...indeed, unloading = exit/close!

Is the flyout menu and weather docklets still in dev? I cant find them in the beta. Otherise, this thing runs SMOOOOOOOOTH. Finally I can use it as a taskbar replacement on my win 7 x64 machine.

Top of screen lcoation for Silver Fox icons/reflections are not correct. Icons are placed to far in front of "deck" causing them and reflections to float in space rather than on the platform.

Heh I was going to ask that question about the weather docklet. Seems to be a lot of questions here but no answers...yet

EDIT: WOW, didn't realize the flyout menu was actually missing as the ones I had made with v1.9 are working in v2.0b. Now

I go to make another Flyout menu and the option is gone

Requests for improvements for Windows 7/Vista:

Please have links (My Music, My Pictures, etc.) allow links to corresponding Libraries rather than hard coded to c:\user\{user}\{mediatype}.  I do not keep Music and Photo's on those paths..but have adjusted my Libraries to point to them.

Weather Docklet has to be added onto the dock you wanted. IT WORKS....WOOT!

for flyout to work, right click on the icon and choose Custom menu:Flyout

Edit:Sorry forgot the flyout I had was originally from previous OD.

But the weather Docklet is available and does work.

My first impressions on my Vista Ultimate X64 notebook (Quadro FX3700 M graphics [latest Dell-approved drivers], Q9300 processor, 8GB RAM): it runs well if nothing else is running, but once I load other apps, even with a negligible CPU load (Object Dock being the main user at, say, 2-5%), it is generally (not always) sluggish.  The weather docklet may take 2 seconds or so to expand (popping up and collapsing goes quickly, but the fanning out is slow and variable), e.g..  When the dock expands or contracts as taskbar icons are added or removed automatically, the frame rate for the animation seems to be usually about maybe 4-5 frames per second.  If I do the same OD action repetitively without interruption, it tends to get a bit faster/smoother.

It really varies a lot, but it's not, on my system, particularly pleasant to use just yet.

BTW, this is very similar to the behavior of the regular 1.9 versions on this same system.  Maybe it's something about my computer, but if so, I do not know what, and would love to find out.

I'm running into an inability to change icons on some running apps.  I can confirm this with the 64 bit version of Newsbin Pro (Windows 7 x64).  When I select "Dock Icon properties", I get an error requester saying "ObjectDock cannot access information about this window.  It is likely that it has been ran (sic) as Administrator while ObjectDock has not."

Running both/neither application as Administrator has made no difference.

Note that the Show Windows as Thumbnails is broken with this program as well, so they might be related.

Other programs like Google Chrome, Filezilla work as Thumbnails.

Also, Explorer windows aren't showing their thumbnails either.

I'm starting to suspect that native 64 bit apps (Newsbin Pro and Explorer) are breaking thumbnail/icon support in the new ODPlus 2beta, whereas 32 bit applications work as expected.

I hope this helps.  8)

Well I'll be damned if I can figure it out. It does not show up under "Add" --> "Docklets"

I have: Calendar, Clock, Battery Meter, Web Search, Start Menu, Show Desktop, Recycle Bin, Configure/Unload Object dock, but

no Weather Docklet. I can SEE the docklet in the docklets folder but cannot figure out how to get in onto my

dock.

BUG1: on Zoomer dock when you right click --> View --> Show Minimized Windows. If you open Explorer (ie. My Computer)

and minimize it, it does not show up on the Zoomer Dock but does show up if you select "Show all running Windows"

BUG2: I've set up a small seperate Zoomer Dock to hold my System tray icons, would rather have them on a tabbed dock

but... anyway. Right Click --> Configure System Tray Icons, I have "Safely Remove Hardware & Eject Media", AnyDVD, &

Rainlendar2 checked off. However ONLY AnyDVD & Rainlendar2 show on the dock. If I check off "Show all tray icons at all

times" then all the system tray icons show on the dock. If I instead check off all the icons then only AnyDVD, Rainlendar2,

Object Dock, and Spyder3Utility show up but there should also be Tuneup Utilities & Realtek HD Audio Manager. So out of 7

icons, only 4 show up when checked off individualy, while all WILL show up if "Show all tray icons at all times" is checked.

I couldn't figure out how to get the realtek audio manage onto the dock (1.9 on win 7 x64). Everytime I would drag the shortcut, I'd click on it and get "unspecified error."

[Tabs] Custom +/- images do not seem to work. I have tried re-directing the code in the .ini to point toward "ObjectDockPlus2\Backgrounds," but this did not work.

[Feature Request] It would be nice to be able to access the W7 jump lists through the dock icons. Maybe a right-click on a dock icon could produce a jump list, and one of the options on the jump list could be "ObjectDock settings."

Under two machine installs weather is the last docklet after websearch...and before start menu..and have been set up for 2 different addresses, my home and sisters home....

1.  Looks really pretty.

2. Has less features than object dock 1.9, seems odd

3. start menu function broken, only half image.

4. is it possible to have docks on separate monitors only show those windows minimized on that monitor?

5. since you can only check one option, either show all open windows, show all minimized, show systray, it takes essentially 3 docks before you should disable the taskbar?  not to mention systray stuff on the dock doesn't seem to respond well either.

6.  how come no systray tab setting?

7.  no flyout?  no stacks? no sub docks? no new features?  really confused.

8.  is there any sort of upcoming feature list we can see to get an idea of where this is going to go?

Ditto:

Darcelicious-Ok..that's a big problem!

Pictures are worth a thousand words!  Based on your screenie, ObjectDock Tray is NOT on my list.  Therein lies the problem methinks.