Winstep Nexus Dock v11.6 FREE released
Now with built-in support for animated icons!
Monday, July 11, 2011 by JcRabbit | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Winstep has released Nexus v11.6. The new release features built-in support for animated icons (just drag & drop, no need for 3rd party docklets), eighteen different dock mouse over effects that can be combined with the Magnify effect, and MUCH MORE! Read the full change log HERE.
The Winstep Nexus dock is a FREE dock for Windows. Every feature you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and others not available in most other docks, such as live icon reflections, in-dock system tray, Win7 'superbar' abilities for running applications, automatic blur-behind (Vista/7) of semi-transparent dock backgrounds, and much more. Completely customizable, Nexus has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.
Nexus runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 and currently supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.
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Reply #22 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:11 PM
Same here, I'm too lazy these days but if anyone has worked with Litestep, Aston or .msstyles, they can easily skin Winstep. I've made several themes for my girlfriend (she's a big Winstep fan) but a "builder" would be a motivator to skin more for sure.... 
Reply #24 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:56 PM
Just for interest sake - I use Rocket Dock, which has an add-on to open folders on the dock in 'stacks' or 'grid' fashion - like Mac. Simple but fantastic way to quickly find & open programs, folders etc. Does Nexus or OD have this capability?
Reply #25 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:12 PM
Nexus Ultimate (NOT the free version of Nexus) supports multiple level sub-docks, which, functionality wise, are pretty much the same thing, or even better because you can put non-file system stuff into them.
Eye-candy wise, sub-docks are not as 'flashy' as Stacks, which is why a native version of Stacks is on the to-do list for Nexus Ultimate. This said, there is something called 'Cris'n'Softs' stand alone Stacks which you can use with the free version of Nexus.
Reply #26 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:41 PM
As soon as you bring out a beta of the builder, JC, I'm gonna be all over it! 
Reply #27 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:03 AM
I'll do an open beta on it as soon as I have something 'edible'.
Don't build up your expectations too much, though, my idea is to start (and perhaps end) with something simple: Categories with GUI settings, but with previews being done by the applications themselves (e.g.; you change the settings on the builder, click the Preview button and the builder sends a command to the running Winstep Applications which in turn show the results).
Perhaps implement some kind of drag & drop for images too so you don't have to remember image names (e.g.; wsfullbody.png) which are fixed in Winstep, but I'm still not quite sure what is the best way to implement something like that.
Anything beats editing configuration files by hand, though.
Reply #28 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:46 AM
What I would really like to see is being able to let subdocks have definable multiple rows. That way stacks would be sort of obsolete. Nevertheless, the subdock function is great.
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:27 AM
But then it wouldn't be a 'dock', it would be more like a Shelf.
Anyway, don't worry, this will all fit together very nicely once I finish adding the most important things on my to-do list.
Reply #30 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:16 AM
One thing I really like in Objectdock is the "Flyout Menu" option. Comes in handy when assigning sub-folders. The sub-dock option in Nexus is sorta like it, but.. aw, I'm just spoilt.
On the plus side, Nexus has so many cool features missing in Objectdock.
Reply #31 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:41 AM
Eye-candy also matters, eh? Winstep focus was always on adding functionality first then eye-candy... Kind of lost sight of the eye-candy part for a while, though, but, with a ton of functionality already there, the last couple of years have been very much focused on adding eye candy too...
No other dock for Windows has the kind of mouse over (and other) effects Nexus currently features, for instance, and Nexus was the first to add real time icon reflections. Lots more eye-candy related stuff on the pipeline too (for instance, a lot can be done with the way sub-docks open).
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Reply #21 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:59 AM
Quoting 2of3, reply 13How easy is it to skin (skin editor program vs .ini files and notepad?) and can I convert my objectdock backgrounds to work with this?
You don't need to convert anything - Nexus is compatible with skins for *all* 3rd party docks.
As for skinning, because of the above, you can use whatever skinning format you chose (RocketDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, etc...) to skin Nexus...
Currently Winstep is working on it's own Winstep Theme Builder application so users can make native Winstep skins. Previously, skinning options were part of the applications themselves, so you would skin them via the GUI, but since very few users actually do skins they were removed and are currently being migrated into a dedicated theme builder application.
This is great news!