Published on December 26, 2008 By Island Dog In OS Customization

ObjectDock is one of my personal favorite applications from Stardock.  It is the best way to organize your desktop, and have quick access to applications.  ObjectDock Plus adds to that the ability to have tabs which can make organizing shortcuts into different section even easier.

Here is my current ObjectDock Plus setup on my laptop.

  • Stardock tab: Pretty much all Stardock applications
  • Office:  Microsoft Office 2007 applications, Expression Web, Live Writer, and Evernote
  • Games:  All types of games
  • Media: Applications like Windows Live Gallery, Roxio, WMP, etc.
  • Internet: Filezilla, Skype, MSN, Live Mail and TweetDeck
  • Graphics: Photoshop, Corel Painter XI, Camtasia Studio, SnagIt, and more
  • Applications: Parallels, CCleaner, etc.
  • General:  iTunes, Outlook, Browsers, etc.

tabbed_dock

Post your tabbed dock and show us how you are organizing your desktop.


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on Dec 26, 2008

I love that skin. Where did you get it?

on Dec 27, 2008

That's the matching dock for Plastic Fantastic.  These were made by messiah1, and recolored to match the Christmas version of PF. 

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=15106&libid=29

on Dec 29, 2008

on Dec 29, 2008

Admin: C Drive, CD/DVD Drive, Control Panel, Print utilities

Network: All of my varied network drives

Adobe: Adobe apps. (duh!)

Programs: The programs folder, CD Burner XP Pro, Scan utility, MS Word, MS Excel, CrossFont, AMP Font Viewer, 7-Zip, Snipping Tool

Stardock: All the Stardock Apps I use.

Man, do I love tabbers!

on Dec 29, 2008

Man...you guys are lucky...I don't have any of those!

on Dec 29, 2008

Man, you're pretty good at skinning something you don't have!

on Dec 29, 2008

Here are two of my tabs (set up as single's or drawers)  These are the Aero Midnight ones I did to match the skin of the same name released by Stardock Design.

 

I love that skin. Where did you get it?

 

Make munkeh feel good.  Although ID isn't using the custom Plus/Minus images that were included.  Which is weird because it should be.  Must be ID is using that pesky OD folder inside My Documents....

 

 

on Dec 29, 2008

that pesky OD folder inside My Documents....

I rather like that "pesky" folder. Besides, I discovered how to keep your docks in that folder and utilize the custom +/- images.

on Dec 29, 2008

They are nice docks Messiah - think i need to update my dock and icons - ive not changed them in so long

on Dec 29, 2008

I rather like that "pesky" folder. Besides, I discovered how to keep your docks in that folder and utilize the custom +/- images

 

I know it can be done, but it doesn't work as well as the original way.  You are an experienced user.  Most aren't, which is why the .dockzip came into play in the first place I think.  Just click and use.  But it messed up the way we code our ini files to use the plus minus images.

on Dec 29, 2008

You are an experienced user.

But it messed up the way we code our ini files to use the plus minus images.

Aww crap. You mean I found a work around for the work around?

on Dec 29, 2008

Aww crap. You mean I found a work around for the work around?

Well...what's your workaround?  This:

 

Copy the enclosed "jawndo_minus.png" and the "jawndo_plus.png" files inside of the following directory:

C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock

 

That's a way of doing it, but it requires a shutdown of OD (if the user has a dock using the plus/minus images already running).  The easy way of doing it is to put the plus/minus images in the same folder as the actual dock background, then code the ini to point right to that folder.  (This is how Webgizmos and myself do it)  This way, the user never has to copy/paste anything each time they change a background, it would auto change upon selection of that background.  However, .dockzip files go into a different location, so it breaks the link that the ini is pointing to.

 

Now, if we were going to use .dockzip only, then we could change how we write the ini codes, but not everyone uses .dockzip.  So if I coded for .dockzip, then the folks that do it the old way wouldn't get all the features, and if I code the old way, the folks using .dockzip don't get all the features.  So which way do we do it?  Zoomba or ID or whoever should do a poll on how many use the .dockzip versus the older way of putting the files in C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock\Backgrounds.

 

Here's the code in my ini for the plus/minus images:

[Extras]
PlusImage = Backgrounds\Plastic_Fantastic\Tab_2\plus.png
MinusImage = Backgrounds\Plastic_Fantastic\Tab_2\minus.png

 

Notice it starts out at Backgrounds\...it's assuming C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock.  The location in My Documents has a different folder structure and so the ini doesn't work the way it should.

on Dec 29, 2008

forget it. i found them. how did i miss those in the first place?

on Dec 29, 2008

and where are these aero midnight docks?

Right here: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=15099&libid=29

on Dec 29, 2008

forget it. i found them. how did i miss those in the first place?

It matters not how you missed them, what matters is, you have found them.

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