Tiny ObjectDock 2 beta video demo
Sunday, March 21, 2010 by Frogboy | Discussion: OS Customization
The beta begins this month…really!
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Reply #22 Monday, March 22, 2010 12:55 PM
none of that talk here.
Yeah, thanks.. my toenails just curled under..
Reply #23 Monday, March 22, 2010 2:14 PM
Sorry Jafo...I disagree...the reflections as they show in the video are impossible. A reflection cant be behind or higher than the reflected object. It CAN be lower...if the object is floating...that would at least look realistic.
Reply #24 Monday, March 22, 2010 8:44 PM
I hope the "new and improved" coloring function works much like the one in Windowblinds so we can more accurately recolor the docks to match the blinds. As it is right now in 1.9, it recolors the whole thing to one color, whether the original dock bg was a multi-hue gradient or not (ie not smart coloring).
Reply #25 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:57 AM
Reply #27 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:54 AM
I just can't wait to get my hands on this build...
3rdEye
Reply #29 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:33 AM
Thoroughly aware...I also have the proggy too..so see the effects first-hand....
Reply #31 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:03 PM
are there actually new features? the only new feature i've seen is the moving tabs. is there a feature list anywhere?
Reply #32 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:20 PM
Yay! News! Even better, it's good news! 
Looks like the wait is worth it. 
Can hardly wait for the beta. . .
Thanks for the update, Frogboy! 
Reply #33 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:21 PM
The smileys in the previous post are missing reflections... 
Reply #34 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 3:27 PM
Hrmm coloring function not new and improved actually. Though that is something that i'd like to do. (Hue rotating / adjustment option vs straight 'colorize')
Reply #35 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:48 PM
Oh please do. 
The "coloring" in OD currently is kinda sad at best, and near impossible to match a recolored blind (accurately) without actually recoloring all the background images, and who wants to do that? WB does it for us extremely well, OD should too.
Reply #36 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:57 PM
lol oh whatever!! it recolors, plenty of people just want to make a theme their favorite color and thats all hue rotating / etc is pretty straightforward, its on the list
Reply #37 Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:02 AM
oh and the reflections are not configurable in the program itself at the moment... you set them up in the skin file. though i do hope to put in some sliders to allow for adjustment.
for the upcoming release i've tweaked all the reflections in each of the applicable skins to be super-sharp looking "in my opinion", but if you don't agree go ahead and make a copy of the skin you want to change and modify it up, i've left comments in the skin definition files! to modify a skin just right click it in the skin browser and choose to open the skin folder.(note, you will want to make a copy, so that your changes don't get overwritten during updates)
Reply #38 Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:14 AM
That would be great because as we've seen before, most people like to be able to do it the easiest way. Having them set-up in the skin file currently will probably limit the amount of people that will actually 1. know how to do it and B. actually do it. IMO, things like that would def. be best suited to the control/configuration panel. Whats the saying? K.I.S.S.?
On another note about having them in the skinfile...some people might not want to have icon reflections and if the maker of a skin has them in the skin file, someone would have to go in and edit the file to take them out. Going back to my two points above. I know I only like having reflections below my icons if I'm using a tray type dock. They look stupid on a flat zoomer or tab IMO.
A simple check box to display reflections or not would be great.
Reply #39 Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:30 AM
hehheh...buttons,sliders and switches are nice tho...
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Reply #21 Monday, March 22, 2010 11:32 AM
none of that talk here.