objectdock 0.99 not displaying properly
Saturday, September 13, 2003 by giyorg | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
When I hover my mouse on the dock, the icons seem to disappear. Its like there's only a small square of visible area and as i hover my mouse from left to right, they disappear behind this "window". It looks OK when I'm not hovering my mouse on it.
My screen res is 1280x1024, XP pro. any thoughts are welcome. Same thing happens with other dock programs. I am up-to-date with my video driver. Thanks.
My screen res is 1280x1024, XP pro. any thoughts are welcome. Same thing happens with other dock programs. I am up-to-date with my video driver. Thanks.
giyorg
Reply #2 Saturday, September 13, 2003 8:59 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, September 13, 2003 8:59 PM
I uploaded a screen shot of objectdock acting up during mouse hover in the screenshot section. Thanks. Do you have any idea what would cause it?
yrag
Reply #3 Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:17 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:17 PM
Don't have a clue where you uploaded to....open 'Edit Account' and upload it as your desktop. When you click on your Nick it will show there.
giyorg
Reply #4 Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:45 AM
Reply #4 Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:45 AM
ok, I've uploaded it as my desktop 
sorry, i didnt understand what you wanted me to do in the first post. Its there now.
sorry, i didnt understand what you wanted me to do in the first post. Its there now.
yrag
Reply #5 Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:16 AM
Reply #5 Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:16 AM
Can't say I've ever seen it do that.....you might want to try going into OD config/appearance and toggle screen position to 'on top' 'on bottom' 'z-order normal'. Also in appearance tweaks play with the two 'effects' settings...... 
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #6 Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:21 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:21 AM
OD0.99 seems pretty twitchy to me too.But I havnt had your prob. Does it do it in all screen positions?At all sizes and transparency levels?
Does it do it in all screen positions?At all sizes and transparency levels?
hashonboat
Reply #8 Sunday, September 14, 2003 3:30 PM
Reply #8 Sunday, September 14, 2003 3:30 PM
giyorg, try a different dock bacground and a different dock theme altogether. Make sure you don't have a separator in there that may be essentially a .blank png or .ico ....It also may have to do with the bacground ini file stretching or tiling the background image incorrectly. in any case if you use a whole different background & theme I have a feeling you wont have the problem anymore.............Let us know what you find out. I'm real curious.
giyorg
Reply #9 Sunday, September 14, 2003 4:32 PM
Reply #9 Sunday, September 14, 2003 4:32 PM
I tried your suggestions hashonboat, but unfortunately, the problem is still there. 
giyorg
Reply #12 Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:59 AM
Reply #12 Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:59 AM
I just found a related problem. When I try to drag a desktop icon, it doesnt appear to be dragged (its not following my mouse cursor), but once I release the mouse button, the icon reappears in that position. I feel that this is related to the problem I'm having. If any of you can help, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
rpeterclark
Reply #13 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:54 PM
Reply #13 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:54 PM
Hey giyorg, did you ever get this problem resolved? Turns out I'm having the *exact same* issue. None of the solutions above worked for me either and I also have that icon dragging wierdness.
What type of video card are you running? I'm wondering if maybe that's what we have in common and it's a hardware/driver issue or something. I'm running a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650.
What type of video card are you running? I'm wondering if maybe that's what we have in common and it's a hardware/driver issue or something. I'm running a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650.
rpeterclark
Reply #14 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:48 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:48 PM
Good news! I decided to look into the disappearing icon issue more thinking it had somthing to do with it. Turns out it is a common problem with new Dell systems. I found a solution to it here:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_video&message.id=71274
Fixing the icon problem also fixes the ObjectDock problem.
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_video&message.id=71274
Fixing the icon problem also fixes the ObjectDock problem.
giyorg
Reply #15 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:32 PM
Reply #15 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:32 PM
cool. Thanks peterclark. I'l try this out tomorrow.
Blame it on my overtaxed brain to not remember the exact video card on my system but as far as I can recall its an NVIDIA GeForce FX.
If it worked on your Dell system then I'm quite certain it would work on mine as well. I'll keep you posted.
Blame it on my overtaxed brain to not remember the exact video card on my system but as far as I can recall its an NVIDIA GeForce FX.
If it worked on your Dell system then I'm quite certain it would work on mine as well. I'll keep you posted.
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Reply #1 Saturday, September 13, 2003 8:22 PM