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Published on November 18, 2002 By Frogboy In WinCustomize News
Stardock has had ObjectDock floating around internally for a long while. But with the recent releases of a host of "dock" programs we figured it was time to go ahead and let people give it a try.

ObjectDock is a task manager / program launcher that does it with style. It was created to test out new Object Desktop technologies for seeing what could and couldn't be done reasonably on Windows 2000/XP. It's inspired by the dock on MacOS X (which is one of the reasons why we've never made it available previously and why it's freeware).

Feel free to post news on this elsewhere. This isn't a "product", it's more of a technology demo that we've made freely available. Make sure you read the page carefully.
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on Nov 19, 2002
really smooth app but a bit taxing on memory!!
on Nov 19, 2002
Wow this is neat.
Looks like it would be fairly easy to skin.
I love the screenshot as background for minimized windows.

I need two things before dumping the starbar entirely:

1. A start button

2. Systray
on Nov 19, 2002
Try ObjectBar. (www.objectbar.net). It can take care of the rest.
on Nov 19, 2002
Thanks for the tip c242
on Nov 19, 2002
This is really cool. It would be cool to have a right click close/minimize/maximize menu but I can live without it. Very sweet app, I think I am going to use this. Now I just need to figure out how to do the start button only with objectbar or find a way to use desktopx to get what I am missing with the start button.
on Nov 19, 2002
maybe someone can make an object bar theme to go with objectDock
the object bar can have the systray and probably startmenu
on Nov 19, 2002
Very nice, curry and rice - lap it up in chunks!

The Custom Engine works a treat on my old 400Mhz, 192MEG RAM, 8MEG Graphics, steam-driven clunker.
on Nov 19, 2002
great--;O) byby MobyDock
on Nov 19, 2002
I didn't think I was going to find a use for this but it is wayyy cool!

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on Nov 19, 2002
if only it could work on win98.I know that that it needs the alpha blending sh*t but still, would there be a 9x version in the future?
on Nov 19, 2002
You don't need me to say it, but I can sleep better at night knowing I've voiced my ideas. So! A few feature requests:

-The mouseover text in the real OSX dock kind of 'falls' behind the dock when focus is lost.
-Custom mouseover fonts
-Custom dock background
-Dock to any edge
-Skinnable context/right-click menus for dock items
-Recycle Bin context menu, with option to empty without having to Explore the bin...
-Custom text shadow direction (X,Y)
-Custom dock transparency
-Autohide

I put a bunch of icon's i've collected in the dock's folder. Naturally, these are high quality, and can be large (120K per icon). If I have a couple hundred of them, things get very slow. It takes a good couple of minutes on my P3-500 to bring up the list of icons when changing one. After I've changed a couple, it slows to a crawl, until I exit OD. Possible memory leak...

On a lighter note, I love it! Thanks a lot.

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on Nov 19, 2002
This is wayyyyy kool. Now, make it better!!!
on Nov 19, 2002
Now make it available for win98 as well and you got a winner!
on Nov 20, 2002
this isn't going to replace my beloved ObjectBar, but it is Seriously cool and impressive!
on Nov 20, 2002
One thing would be great: having ObjectDock respond to Alt-Tab.
Feels weird to see all the beautiful icons down there, and then when I want to use Alt-Tab I have the old ugly ones again, so I have to memorize two icons for each running program
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