The Expression suite is the most impressive thing I've seen come out of the Microsoft stable in many years, perhaps even ever. Expression Blend (which was originally called Sparkle in the old days) is especially cool. Mark my words - in a couple of years time this technology will totally change the face of Windows thick *and* thin client GUIs. Nick
Am I alone in thinking that the trending of sales only makes ANY kind of sense in an environment of unlimited supply? Probably. I have no doubt at all that some idiots will be ignoring the supply situation and tolling Sony's death nell with this "news". :/
Did we get a Dock equivalent of BandVWM (Virtual Desktops) yet? Without that I can never throw out the standard Taskbar. I ask for it every version, so, here's the request again.
Not particularly, that looks to be far too heavyweight for what I was thinking of. There would be no executable application for managing/viewing links and therefore no files to persist them. In fact, the whole idea of storing such link information in a file flies in the face of the concept which is to be able to immediately set and get file relationships from the files themselves without having to read it from somewhere. It would be built into the s
I'd like to see some mechanism for linking related content together. For example, to link a proposal document to its bidsheet you could hold down a key combination, click and drag the document and drop it on the spreadsheet. You'd then have some visual device to let you know that links exist on the two documents and the ability (possibly from an addition to the context menu) to see a graphical representation of the links for that file, with the abili
visualization and implemenation are not mutually inclusive My comment is based on earlier statements that Virtual Desktops were re-implemented to make them "integration-friendly" (e.g. for ObjectBar). If the component is already engineered to support integration then it's really just a matter of exposing the functionality, i.e. visualisation.<br
PLEASE, I am literally begging you, please, integrate your Object Desktop modules. Specifically, virtual desktops and Object Dock. "Virtual Desktops" is *the* single most useful component of Object Desktop and now that Apple have unveiled "Spaces" will likely receive renewed attention. I would love to use Object Dock in place of the Windows Taskbar but I can't do that until you implement some way of exposing the virtual desktops through the Object Dock interface. It'
Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff. Nick
What do Stardock think about the future of DesktopX in light of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer? Expression is very similar in terms of being able to quickly develop outstanding user experiences for either Windows Vista or XP SP2 applications backed up by the power of the .NET 3.0 Runtime. I've been playing with Expression and it's very impressive, providing a similar design vs. code separation paradigm to DesktopX but seriously amped up in terms of rich media, 3D, vector graphics et
File size doesn't matter anymore for office documents, with the price of HD space so low. Seriously, MPG, AVI, HD files, etc. take tons of drive space. Excel and word docs...bah. We can already get the exact same space savings by just setting the documents directory to be compressed in XP. Similar compression ratio, faster decomp
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A related question is whether ObjectDock should even have its own native docklet API any more. It would be far more consistent across the OD product suite to standardise on DesktopX for all such components, whether they're in ObjectBar, ObjectDock, or standalone in the form of gadgets. Even RightClick uses DesktopX these days so I'm pretty sure that's Stardock's vision but they're not quite there yet. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wi
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It's frustrating to see how well this product is turning out, knowing that it's useless to me without support for virtual desktops. I would love to use this to replace my taskbar but I simply can't operate without BandVWM or an equivalent. I would have thought that DesktopX technology would have arrived in this product by now, as it as with ObjectBar for example, in w
That's funny, because I seem to have lost support for Word icons myself. Happened a couple of weeks ago. Nick
Pllllllllllllease say that the virtual desktops will be accessible from the updated ObjectDock that's in the works! I want to ditch the Windows task bar and move to a dock but I can't live without my BandVWM. If I could have the desktops as docklets then I'll be mucho happy. Hopeful thanks in advance.
I'm guessing, yes once you pay for it. Duh, that'll teach me to read the announcement properly.
Will people who purchased the original Aquarium Desktop be able to upgrade to this (e.g. from within Stardock Central)?
Whatever folder I selected to install in, it added an "\IconX" on the end of it. Did it insist on installing into an IconX folder for anyone else? Nick
Incompatible with Band VWM. The configurable wallpapers for each VWM desktop are ignored in favour of the default Windows wallpaper. Nick
Well I upgraded my OD+ and there still doesn't appear to be VWM support. I thought that the new VWM component had been developed in such a way as to be usable by OB and OD? Maybe there's a docklet I can download from somewhere? VWM is still my most valued component out of the entire suite and I simply can't use my machine without it any more so any help would be appreciated. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="ab
Does it have virtual desktop support yet? I can't ditch my taskbar until I have a replacement for BandVWM.
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the component in question does not supply a property equivalent to onreadystatechange. The documentation just states: # Declare a variable for the listener. Dim WithEvents myListener as TibrvListener This declaration triggers VB to automatically define a private subroutine callback stub named myListener_
Unfortunately WithEvents is not supported in VBScript. I'm wondering if JScript will help. Either that or I might have to write a plugin which seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to. It just seems a shame - Stardock have given us the ability to embed ActiveX controls but that support is very limited if we cannot consume their events. Nick
Anyone have any ideas on this? I know the COM component is working because I can publish messages from DX3 and see them in other applications but whatever I try I just can't get the myControl_newMessage callback to fire. If I can get this to work then I can upgrade to DX Pro and start cranking out Gadgets... Nick
I'm playing around with scripting objects. I have a COM control "myControl" that has a method "subscribe" to create an asynchronous subscriber of messages: myControl.subscribe "params" This control actually creates a callback called _newMessage which it fires whenever a new message arrives, so in my case I need to code something like this: sub myControl_newMessage [Code to handle the
Please make an ObjectDock docklet version so I can get rid of my task manager!