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RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha-blended application launcher that is similar to ObjectDock. RocketDock renders quickly like MobyDock, has the visual sharpness of Y'z Dock, and the stability that neither seem to possess.
It is compatible with every dock skin format we are aware of. In fact, if you have a skin that doesn't load properly, send it to us, along with a screenshot of what it should look like and we'll see what we can do about integrating the format...

Features:
• Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
• ObjectDock Docklet support
• Unicode compliant
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• True multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended ICO and PNG icons
• Icons zoom and transition smoothly
• Auto-hide
• Popup on mouse over
• Layering options
• Horizontal and Vertical offsets
• Fully customizable
• Runs great on slower computers
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• And best of all...its FREE

Supported Languages:
Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

System Requirements:
• Windows 2000/XP/2003
• 500Mhz or faster CPU
• 10MB RAM free

Changelog:
• Complete rewrite of rendering code
• Improved performance on systems with newer video cards. Older systems will vary in performance
• Icons now slide and transition smoothly like the OS X dock
• Icons and docklets now bounce when launching or getting your attention
• Icons now do a "poof" animation while deleting
• Icons now are solid so you cannot "click through" transparent areas by mistake
• Added support for RK Launcher skins
• Improved support for skins that use tiling (in various formats)
• Better ObjectDock Docklet SDK support
• Popup on Mouseover no longer interrupts fullscreen applicaitons
• Drag 'n Drop from the Start Menu now works
• Dropping files/folders onto folders in the dock now performs a copy operation
• Dropping files/folders onto any ReycleBin icon will now act properly
• Dropping files/folders onto programs on the dock now launches the program with the dropped file as an argument (much like explorer)
• Added a new error catching system to ensure that RocketDock loads properly. If it has a problem loading it will now ask you if it should revert to defaults
• Redesigned zoom algorithm to solve visual glitches and to support new effects
• Massive restructuring and organization of the entire project
• Simplified and (hopefully) fixed thread syncronization...
• Added "Update" menu item when right-clicking on the dock
• Popup on Mousover now works when using "Always on Top" layering
• New option to treat all your monitors as a single large one
• Fixed a nasty bug where RocketDock would crash while loading
• Fixed separators vanishing durring drag operations
• Fixed unnecessary saving when items are locked and you try to drag one
• Fixed Icon Labels appearing under the dock skin
• Removed Screenshot capabilities due to the new rendering system. This may return in a future version
• Settings are now stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\RocketDock
• Removed Monitor clipping due to the new rendering code...

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This post has been edited by Herby: Aug 21 2006, 17:43

not bad but YZ-DOCK is still top-dawg

thanks, i'll check it out.

I've been using it for a few days now and it's great. It got me to get rid of RKLauncher which originally got me to get rid of Y'z Dock. I hope they implement an indicator icon in a future build.

this is a good dock. Thanks!

after intsalling this, using it a bit, i really like it.. BUT.. since then i've lost the ability to scroll up/down, left/right on my laptop. an external mouse works..

when i place my finger on the right edge of touch pad, it does the scrolling, but not anymore..

anyone else affected by this?

Awesome. I will be updating this on my system as soon as I get home tonight.

Just started using this after about a year (maybe more) of using object dock. I must say it is very good.

I've been using Y'z Dock for like a year now but i think i'm gona give this dock a go see wat its like

what yzdock has that rocketdock doesn't?

Someone will have to do a review of all the free docks on the wwb.
yzdock, rocket, Rk, objectdock, others if any

y'z has far less features compared to RK, rocket and OD.. RK launcher is slow in launching apps compared to rocket dock and OD... OD's transition is too fast even at smoothest settings.. so rocket dock wins hands down...

Nice to see the updating! Time for me to update mine!

I've tried it, but i just cant seem 2 move away frm Y'z Dock

Y'z dock isn't available anymore, so when I get Windows back I think I'll use this.

I never even got to use Y'z dock though

Thanks for the notice.

Much better than OD. Are you planning on adding different animations to the icon activation?