We Got a DOCK! Kinda...


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You mentioned something about eating up server time...Well, on my site I am going to be featuring a 'tech-corner' with a 'humorous twist'. Me and my co-developers (i also developed and still work on www.plawithgun.com as well as 4 other sites that i cannot mention due to contracts...) are trying to put together something that is NOT on a PHP Nuke backend like you see popping up everywhere on new sites in the past year especially. I don't know about the norm, but I think no matter what skin people use, it's still PHP Nuke and it gets old when you start noticing roughly 50 - 60% of the sites you visit have that same style. All they do is modify some settings and graphics and add some user info....and....Boom! Site In a Box! Lame! Anyways, the tech corner will start beta development and public previewing once I fill at least one of the two staff positions open. Anyways, It incorporate many reviews (remember, with a humorous twist), space for skinners that do not have their own site as well as application (free only) developers and will also have a feature of the week/day/or whatever interval people think is fair type of 'attraction' and during that time people can download it and vote for it, send the author reviews on how it could have been better, and refer their friends so you get more fans...etc. Best of all, it gets hosted on my colocated Highly Secured FreeBSD 4.4 RC2 Box running on a 1G/sec throughput Net Card so it can take advantage of the phat pipe it runs on in the Northeastern US (it's an OC3 line, w0ot, can you say sp33d?!). All you developers of themes/skins/icons/skinnable apps want to get your work featured? Contact me for more info, I need your opinions while i start development and I need at least one staff position filled by this weekend...I don't put things off, and when I say I am going to do something I don't care what people have to say in response, i'll still do it and do it by the time I set my goal for. Just click my sig to review the site's current status....

:D thnx :D

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ok heres the point. its FLASH and if there is someone that can figure out how to save it from that site let mek now cause rite now it runs from her site and i don't want to use her bandwidth when its not mine to use.

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download the SWF file from a program i think on download.com which extracts Flash files, edit the file, when the Dock icons expand when u roll the icon over add a Java or VB property like add commands to open my computer, internet explorer and all dat

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Thnx for the positive feedback. :D As for everyone else, voice your opinions and suggestions on the site. Or drop me or anyone on my staff (preferably me at this current time) an email or IM and try to refrain from bothering neowin's board too much about the site, you can talk about it all you want, just use common courtesy....I appreciate everyone's support and will mst likely be putting a neowin button and some other buttons for people that deserve them on the affiliates bar..I just wanted to get the word out to skinners/developers/fanatics about what could turn out to be something really unique and appreciated only by those can see behind the norm of the human species... :D

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Some download that flash file and rip it (i dont use flash because its not my bag) i would think a java applet would be much more of a useful way of going about compiling it. It would also be cross platform then :D - If some can rip the swf and the graphics...etc I could help with getting it ported to *.jar and use flatfiles like txt or ini to allow peeps to config they own, including apps/icons/etc....

My aim: kinky lobster ill be on it as soon as I reboot like i planned on doing a year ago...lol...brb

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After looking at some Flash 5 code, how in the world would the average person be able to customize it? Is there a way to write a simplified front end for it? Timan, or whomever. . . .please make available whatever you have come up with.

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Its not what you guys think. Its just a small vb app that fills you desktop (not the taskbar) which instantly gets directed to a web page mentioned earlier. It's just a flash animation. You cant launch apps, you cant alter the wallpaper etc...

Basically a desktop sized web browser.

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Yeah, but if it's not a protected movie/animation it can be altered. Heck even if it is protected, there is a way around that (I think) using a hex editor. And if what you say is 100% accurate, then what is Timan trying to work on?

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ok im on the case now and i dont know flash extreamly well but i think i can figure out how to make the things get bigger as the mouse moves nearer. i can use generator so u can have as many icons as u want and ive got this app that will let u run exe from a Vitual desktop.

so the dark avenger thinks that i can do it. ne 1 who has done sumin like where the buttons get bigger as u get nearer or knows of sumin on the net i can use as a template basicaly a .fla file cheers

pm me if you can cheers ppl ill do my best

lets have our dock in windows.

then im working on a c version to replace the taskbar with a m8 but that will take time im the graphics d00d realy but ill try my damb hardest to get this baby to run like a dream.

ill post whereever ppl tell me to when ive dun it ok.

:)

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Originally posted by linux2

Yeah, but if it's not a protected movie/animation it can be altered. Heck even if it is protected, there is a way around that (I think) using a hex editor. And if what you say is 100% accurate, then what is Timan trying to work on?

Of course what I say is 100% accurate, I've got a copy of the program and I've been talking to Timan. We cant find a way to rip the dock from the web site, so if anyone else can, go ahead.

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OK today i will still try and rip the flash from her awesome site. And some other good news!!! We are also working on a real dock at aqua-soft! But this is mainly a web browser but i'm working on it so u r able to pick ur own desktop and still trying to find out how to show icons. but please bare with me the second i rip it from the site i will post it i can not send it out simply because it runs off someones server thats not mine. Thanks AND YOU WILL GET IT. Just a matter of time...

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