0.52
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-improved labels
-movable to any side of the screen
-easily skinnable background (includes "brushed metal" presently)
-included also is background_.png" - rename to background2.png
for a "background overlay"
-crashed window removes itself from dock when the dock moves,
-X'ing out of the config does not crash anymore

http://www.stardock.com/files/objectdock052.exe

Mirror (thanks to beric) http://www1.freewebs.com/beric/objectdock052.exe

i really dont think stardock will like the fact this is posted its like pirating freeware


other than that

Pirating freeware.....LMFAO....

Thx for the link....

What the hell is up with that.... I imagine other implementations of it will be nice, I think it's more just to give an idea of what it's capable of... But at the moment it's quite ugly... I'm sure someone will be able to take advantage of this feature to create some nice effects....

its not a secret, its on stardocks page lol. i dowloaded it 3 days ago

Edit:

The link on their page still says .51, but when you download it, its .52 version.

this is .55

This is a "secret", it's version .55 Alpha actually, the one available is .52 labeled as .51....

Get your $hit straight....

No. This is a new version.

It says 0.55 in the about dialog.

a DOCK! COOL

this version works extremly well for me, it isw now my dock of choice .

There's a reason that version wasn't released. It's very very slow due to a bug. That's why it didn't make it past QA and get released.

An official 0.60 will be relesed this next week that is much faster and may have auto-hide in it on top of the dock positioning, skinning, and other features.

Frogboy: Actually, I see speed improvement over the last version. In terms of what is slowed down? I really don't feel it.

Runs fine for me.... I'd rather be able to play with this one until the new one comes out... This way I can at least put the dock on the top or sides.... And I like being able to change the background and the overlay.....

someone should make a grass fore- and background. It looks really cool on the mac, so how about a PC version too?

I'm getting a 404 on that file, does anyone have a mirror?

just change the 2 to a 1.

edit: stupid question but can you put it on the side of the screen?

Yes you can as it says in the release notes...

u can't position the dock in v 0.51

0.51 = 0.52 Alpha

that's still the same 0.51 (0.52 alpha) as a few days ago, was anyone able to download the 0.52 file?

i have .55 and you can dock in on any side of the screen now. Here is what mine looks like:

The download link is down, anyone as a working link ?

Thanks, Paulo

it looks like they cut the link for .55 it used to be at http://www.stardock.com/files/objectdock052.exe and that gave you version .55, but now it doesnt work. if anyone really wants .55, PM me and maybe ill email it to you or something

Wow the new version is impressive !!
visually it's as good as Y/Z !!
it's definately the best dock now !!

hi k33nu,
how do i change the dock's skin? thanks

you can use your own image. i just made a blank 31X43 image so that mine is now trasnparent:) if you want transparency, i can send you the blank image lol. this is what it looks like transparent:

I think .55 work slower than .51???

i made another png white white some alpha transparency
right click , save as

Edit - replaced the attachement with a link

Transparent Background

Anyone have a working link??

I set up a mirror for ver .52 PLEASE DO NOT KILL THE SERVER
I recomend you to wait maybe a few days for the official release but if you can't wait...
here is the link

Cool. Thanks.

Beric server already down !

"Server has an internal error"

You´re right rafael ... Problem with DAP.

Thanks,
Paulo

the link is working here...

anyone know where i could find some more kde crystal icons?

Like I said previously, that version won't ever be officially released because it was rejected for quality assurance reasons. It's much much slower than .51 or .60 (which I have). While you're getting features early, you're paying a significant performance penalty for them which 0.60 won't have.

Frogboy:
Do you know when a new build is going to be released ?

Is a "system tray" feature going to be included in future releases ?

Its the only thing missing, for me, for completely substitute of the windows taskbar, nice work

Thanks,
Paulo

dude


he said wait a week or so...

give the guy a break!!!!

ObjectDock won't ever have system tray or start menus and the like in them (it's a dock).

ObjectBar already handles system trays:

ObjectBar

There's even links to where you can get system tray objects for ObjectBar on the ObjectDock page.

Ok, Frogboy



Thanks for your quick response.

Paulo

sorry jeff for making the mirror. i got rid of it.

It's just bouncing me back to this page

The link is still working, right-click it.....very slow tho.....

Wow that's really damn slow.... You guys can pick it up from my server (which is much faster) here.....

Anyone knows where to find decent MacOS X icons?

Thanks

OBJECTDOCK 0.52 RELEASED

http://www.stardock.com/files/objectdock052.exe

@Rafael Reverte, now is 0.55 out


http://www.stardock.com/files/objectdock055.exe

Frogboy, good work man!. Its more smooth this version. But what about memory consumption?. Eat a lot of memory (more than "big" programs)... And the autohide option?.

Trust: Don't thank me, Thank Jeff. He's doing this in his spare time.

Regarding memory "consumption", don't trust everything the task manager tells you.

Do you really think, for instance, that Internet Explorer uses 40 or 50 megs of RAM? The problem is that on NT OSes, shared DLLs get charged to every process using them even though they're only in RAM once.

ObjectDock makes use of a lot of shared DLLs in the system. The real question should be, does it make your system swap more? Does it slow down your systme? The answer to these questions should be no.

I must say that,

I too was an Object dock hater. I think it comes from people's bad experiences with stardock. The fact that window blinds had some poorly optimized skins back in the day and it was slow on 98 and 2000, before uxtheme, and from the fact that windowfx2 STILL doesnt' work correctly on Nvidia graphics cards.

But I have to say that Object Dock (as of .55alpha) is the best dock.
Hopefully Auto Hide will be added....

where can i get new icons for object dock??