Bug with objectdock?
Friday, January 14, 2005 by Yoav1234 | Discussion: ObjectDock
Hey everybody...
I have stumbled upon an interesting bug here. I was working with OD 1.1 shareware and everything was fine and then I installed the Plus edition and the troubles started. First of all I have to admit that I did not follow the installation guidelines. I have installed the plus on top of the shareware without uninstalling first or something like that. Ok, so the strange problem is this;
I can see the tabbed bar, but when I go to the OD menu, the one that's supposed to show all the different OD bars, it's empty... Meaning that I cannot erase the bars I currently have...
I hope I made myself clear here...
Uninstalling everything and reinstalling didn't help... It stays messed up.
Oh, and bars that are added still do not appear on the list and again cannot be erased...
Help?
Thank you,
Yoav.
I have stumbled upon an interesting bug here. I was working with OD 1.1 shareware and everything was fine and then I installed the Plus edition and the troubles started. First of all I have to admit that I did not follow the installation guidelines. I have installed the plus on top of the shareware without uninstalling first or something like that. Ok, so the strange problem is this;
I can see the tabbed bar, but when I go to the OD menu, the one that's supposed to show all the different OD bars, it's empty... Meaning that I cannot erase the bars I currently have...
I hope I made myself clear here...
Uninstalling everything and reinstalling didn't help... It stays messed up.
Oh, and bars that are added still do not appear on the list and again cannot be erased...
Help?
Thank you,
Yoav.
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webarnes
Reply #22 Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:54 AM
Reply #22 Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:54 AM
I have been running object dock plus for around six months.
At first I took much time to customise 4 docks. One on each side of my monitor.
Everything worked great for about two weeks.
Then I found some 3d desktop application, installed it and experimented with it.
The 3d software application destroyed everyone of the object docks I took sooooo much time to create and customise.
The 3d application was a pain to use so i immediately unistalled it.
It was at this point that I had the same exact issue that has been previously described:
The "My Docks" window shows no docks despite the fact that I have several on my screen.
After a uninstall and reinstall of the stardock application I was able to get it back up and running.
Once again the tedious process of setting up and customizing 4 docks on my monitor.
Along comes a windows update:
Zap: I now have 3 objectdocks.
Along comes another windows update:
Zap: I now have 2 objectdocks.
Along comes another windows update:
Zap: I now have 1 objectdocks.
Yes, This morning Along comes yet another windows update:
Zap: You should be able to guess.
My last objectdock is an objectdock no more.
I hope this helps paint a picture of potential key points in the application codebase that may need review.
William
At first I took much time to customise 4 docks. One on each side of my monitor.
Everything worked great for about two weeks.
Then I found some 3d desktop application, installed it and experimented with it.
The 3d software application destroyed everyone of the object docks I took sooooo much time to create and customise.
The 3d application was a pain to use so i immediately unistalled it.
It was at this point that I had the same exact issue that has been previously described:
The "My Docks" window shows no docks despite the fact that I have several on my screen.
After a uninstall and reinstall of the stardock application I was able to get it back up and running.
Once again the tedious process of setting up and customizing 4 docks on my monitor.
Along comes a windows update:
Zap: I now have 3 objectdocks.
Along comes another windows update:
Zap: I now have 2 objectdocks.
Along comes another windows update:
Zap: I now have 1 objectdocks.
Yes, This morning Along comes yet another windows update:
Zap: You should be able to guess.
My last objectdock is an objectdock no more.
I hope this helps paint a picture of potential key points in the application codebase that may need review.
William
92b16vx
Reply #23 Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:03 AM
Reply #23 Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:03 AM
I opened the registry and remove ALL Stardock values, and it worked fine. I was having similar problems during the transition from Shareware version to full.
orko60
Reply #24 Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:23 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:23 PM
Maybe I missed something, but I tried the same thing. I uninstalled EVERYTHING from Stardock, went into the registry and deleted whatever I could find that was stardock (maybe i need a full list), but when I reinstalled OD+, it did the same thing. Actually, when I first ran it, it had the "default" theme on, but it was an untabbed dock, which was how I had it at the end before I uninstalled it. That leads me to believe something was left behind. 92b16vx, if you could type up a checklist for me of what you did, I would really appreciate it. This is driving me nuts 
chuck bird
Reply #25 Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:00 PM
Reply #25 Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:00 PM
Please let me add my name to the list of those who can't modify tabs. i believe it can summed up this way:
In ObjectDock Properties we click on the "Tabs & Styles" link. This displays a page with the words "Tabs" at the top of the window, and "Tab's Appearance" in the middle of the window. There are NO entries in either box. If one tries to create a new Tab it get's assigned the name of "New Tab" but now won't let you rename it, or apply colors to it. You can add shortcuts to the new tab with no problem.
Does that sound about right for the rest of y'all?
bird
In ObjectDock Properties we click on the "Tabs & Styles" link. This displays a page with the words "Tabs" at the top of the window, and "Tab's Appearance" in the middle of the window. There are NO entries in either box. If one tries to create a new Tab it get's assigned the name of "New Tab" but now won't let you rename it, or apply colors to it. You can add shortcuts to the new tab with no problem.
Does that sound about right for the rest of y'all?
bird
orko60
Reply #26 Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:43 AM
Reply #26 Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:43 AM
Yes. Is it doing the same thing in My Docks for you? I have no list in either of them.
92b16vx
Reply #27 Monday, February 14, 2005 4:42 AM
Reply #27 Monday, February 14, 2005 4:42 AM
Honestly I don't have a list of all registry entries, I just opened the find box out of the edit drop down menu in regedit, typed in stardock, and then deleted. Keeping entering "stardock" and hitting "find next" in the same box till it searchs the registry and comes up with nothing. Also check your temp folders, common folders, anything you have cached and zip file storage history you may have.
Have you tried making a tabbed dock, then going in to my docks > tabbed dock X number of tabs > edit this dock on the configure dock window?
The 3D app. is probably what's killing you. Maybe your graphics card can't handle what you are doing and dumping what it can't handle. I know I had a 3D intense screensaver that crashed my whole graphics driver.
Through personal experiance the best advice I can give is save your themes often save them and then copy the file to somewhere else so you can get it again with out having to store it in Stardock folders incase you have to remove and reinstall. It is still buggy, especially if you are running more than one application (WindowFX is the worst at killing my system). I get weird things happening all the time double docks, jumpy graphics, changing PNGs, but hey, it's still fun.
Have you tried making a tabbed dock, then going in to my docks > tabbed dock X number of tabs > edit this dock on the configure dock window?
The 3D app. is probably what's killing you. Maybe your graphics card can't handle what you are doing and dumping what it can't handle. I know I had a 3D intense screensaver that crashed my whole graphics driver.
Through personal experiance the best advice I can give is save your themes often save them and then copy the file to somewhere else so you can get it again with out having to store it in Stardock folders incase you have to remove and reinstall. It is still buggy, especially if you are running more than one application (WindowFX is the worst at killing my system). I get weird things happening all the time double docks, jumpy graphics, changing PNGs, but hey, it's still fun.
Bones2112
Reply #28 Monday, February 14, 2005 6:17 PM
Reply #28 Monday, February 14, 2005 6:17 PM
Same here, no list for tabs or docks. Tried deleting everything I could find, including registry entries. Still not working correctly. 
JMB1984
Reply #29 Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:05 AM
Reply #29 Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:05 AM
good news, v1.11 coming out this week should take care of this problem 
NightRowan
Reply #31 Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:55 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:55 PM
What date is v1.11 coming out. I've searched all over and can't seem to find anything about it anywhere and don't want to waste my time downloading the same version again and again on the off chance that today's the day.
Dman72
Reply #32 Friday, February 18, 2005 10:57 PM
Reply #32 Friday, February 18, 2005 10:57 PM
Ok. Hope this may help someone. I was having the exact same problem as well. There were no entries under manage my docks. It had been working fine on my pc, but I was having problems with other stuff and had to rebuild it. After that no matter what I did, uninstalling, editing the reg, deleting all traces of Stardock made no difference. I ended up giving up. Then I needed to install the AdminPak on my XP machine but it would only install on SP1 or later and since it was a fresh rebuild I was at pre service pack levels. So to make a short story long, I dowloaded and installed SP2, rebooted and then for kicks reinstalled Object Dock... and presto, it's working fine now. Maybe this can help some of you? Peace. -D72
human
Reply #33 Friday, February 25, 2005 10:03 AM
Hey, two weeks passed and we were still waiting good news.
Reply #33 Friday, February 25, 2005 10:03 AM
| good news, v1.11 coming out this week should take care of this problem |
Hey, two weeks passed and we were still waiting good news.
Chris TH
Reply #34 Friday, February 25, 2005 9:05 PM
Reply #34 Friday, February 25, 2005 9:05 PM
OD+ V1.11.009 has been available on SDCentral since 21 Feb.
human
Reply #35 Friday, February 25, 2005 10:10 PM
Since when do we need SDCentral to download OD+?
When I bought it, Stardock sent me an e-mail to download it.
That make things simple.
Anyway, I tried my previous SDCentral account to see if there is indeed OD+ there.
But I did not see it.
Please make the download link apparent for REGISTERED customers.
Thanks,
Reply #35 Friday, February 25, 2005 10:10 PM
| OD+ V1.11.009 has been available on SDCentral since 21 Feb. |
Since when do we need SDCentral to download OD+?
When I bought it, Stardock sent me an e-mail to download it.
That make things simple.
Anyway, I tried my previous SDCentral account to see if there is indeed OD+ there.
But I did not see it.
Please make the download link apparent for REGISTERED customers.
Thanks,
Koasati
Reply #36 Friday, February 25, 2005 11:58 PM
Reply #36 Friday, February 25, 2005 11:58 PM
...... you can still get by going here... https://www.stardock.com/support.asp
human
Reply #37 Tuesday, March 1, 2005 9:22 AM
Reply #37 Tuesday, March 1, 2005 9:22 AM
Thanks a lot. I just downloaded the new version and it did fixed ALL the problems.
Now I can enjoy the configurations.
Now I can enjoy the configurations.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, February 9, 2005 6:05 PM