Documentation for ObjectDock

Published on January 10, 2009 By palyne In ObjectDock

I feel like I must be blind or something. Surely it's somewhere. But I cannot find user manual, documentation, how-to, etc. anywhere. I don't find it in ObjectDock and I don't find it in the Desktop app that has all the programs; the 'about' page seems like it just takes me to the sales page.

Surely there's a write-up on how to DO stuff. Specific questions I have after messing with it:

1. Can I keep the window farther from the dock? I don't think there is a setting for that--that would be nice, like a margin. I keep accidentally going too far on programs where I need to click right near the edge, and then the zooming icons flash up, it's bugging me. I guess I can resize all my application windows manually to be a little smaller but that's a bother.

2. How do I get to/set up the 'tabbed' dock?

3. How do I set up multiple docks?

4. I use GMail (browser-based web mail) (btw, groovy icons available if you search!), and also I have several googledocs I'm working on. I want to put them in my dock, but I can't figure out how to say, "open a browser window and go to address X". Is the only option opening the browser and then using my iconic bookmarks in that? OK if so, just wondering.

5. I heard about "curved" docks, how do I do that?

I did look around. If there's a user manual somewhere that could walk me through this stuff I'd appreciate a pointer to it. Thank you!

P.S. On install I had a few problems with Desktop thinking my serial wasn't ok, and then it wouldn't run because the 'desktop window manager (uxsms)' was not running. I switched my windows theme back to Vista/Aero, I enabled Windows Defender, I put my Windows Updates in place -- probably had no effect but I didn't know what to do! After googling for awhile I went to control panel > system > windows experience index(link) > then clicked 'update my score' and then closed everything down and rebooted. I don't know what part of all of that worked (maybe just the reboot) but when it came back up and I opened Impulse, the Desktop app (the one that does .dreams, I forget the exact name) worked fine. A little confusing finding images, but fine.

Lovely glossy-cool Matrixian theme Impulse has.

Palne

-- I chose and after hard booting, the problems seemed to go away

desktop window manager not running (uxsms)

Comments

Hankers

on Jan 10, 2009

Try here - WinCustomize Wiki

palyne

on Jan 10, 2009

Thank you.

After further reading at your link and some linked off that, I thought maybe the problem is that although I bought the $49.95 "Object Desktop" package that includes Object Dock and Dream Desk (those were the two I wanted), in Impulse, the icons (on 'desktop') that allow me to install, the ObjectDock had said 'free version available' and I installed from that, but it didn't occur to me maybe it was the stripped down version.

I just went and uninstalled that, as the writeups you pointed to said "be sure you uninstall any free version before installing OD+" or whatever. But now it just says the free version is available like it did before.

Am I profoundly misunderstanding the point of may paying 50 instead of 20 for Object Desktop -- it said it included object dock. Does it not include the full version? I thought maybe the reason I can't figure out how to USE object dock besides a few basic settings, might be that I had the freebie version so the stuff I was looking for wasn't there perhaps.

Now I'm not sure what to do. Should I reinstall the 'free' version that Impulse mentions, is it really installing the full version because I registered, and only mentions free? I have registered and have my serial, shouldn't Impulse be automatically unlocking ObjectDock for me like the other things it contains?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm rather poor right now and bought it on impulse this morning after seeing the winner of the current Dream contest and wanting to have it RIGHT NOW and only having Vista Home.

Thanks a ton,

Palyne

ZubaZ

on Jan 10, 2009

ObjectDesktop does not include ObjectDock. It's a seperate purchase.

You may need to contact sales@stardock.com if you bought the wrong product.

palyne

on Jan 10, 2009

I see. I think being brand new to the whole idea and sleep deprived before coffee, I mixed up 'object dock' and 'object desktop' -- I thought the latter was a 'fuller/bigger' version of the former. My mistake. I'll go get the real 'object dock' now and I'm sure it'll all be so much more obvious!

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