Pixel18, If you have a shortcut to the game or make one & it works fine, I would copy the path from the "Target" in the shortcut's properties. If the shortcut works but the dock shortcut won't I would re-install Object Dock. Just back up your ini files first, or use the Kk Menu Editor to see if that works. That's a very starnge error!!!!!!!

wow, i want to use this.....but it all goes in one ear and out the other.....someone plz explain in HIGH detail how to set this beast up. it sounds like a great prog

I put the full path name to IE in the link field.

I put the www.wincustomize.com in the arguments path.

Works great for me

Here are some detailed instructions for those who are having problems.

Extract the zip file to your OD folder so that the contents are in a folder by itself called menu or kkmenu or whatever.
Inside this folder yo will notice 2 more folders, 1 called menu and 1 called skins. Unlike the previous kkmenu each menu you create needs it's own seperate .ini file. If you look at the files that are in the menu folder you can get an idea as to how each line works to run a program. Here's the beginning of the kkofficemenu.ini file:


[Office]
Word = "IS","office word.png","c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE","",0



First of all, notice that each item is separated by quote marks and commas, this is the breakdown:

[Office] - This is the title of the menu, name it whatever you want using the brackets around it, the old kkmenu used to use this as the argument to run the menu, the new version calls to this for the submenu (explained later). Each submenu must have it's own .ini file also.

Word - this is what you want the menu to show for the title of the program, obviously in this case, Word.

"IS", - this just tells the program it's a shortcut. "IM", would be a submenu and you would type the parameters for a submenu after this.

"office word.png", - this is the .png you want to use as the icon for this shortcut. Not that all the shortcut .png's must reside in the menu folder.

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE", - This is obviously the path to the program you want to run

"", - 2 quotes means the end of the line for this particular shortcut

0 - This is the flag how you want the shortcut run - 0 for normal, 1 for minimized, 2 for maximized, and 3 for default.

To create a submenu, you would start the line the same, with the title you want, followed by IM instead of IS, the .png file you want to use for the icon (this is not necessary though) then the name of the submenu. A power submenu line would look like this:

Power = "IM","powering.png","Powering"


It's quite simple once you get the idea as to how this works. Get all your .png's together in the menu folder, fire up notepad and start making your .ini files using these parameters. You could also use one of the ones provided and just edit it with your own parameters to save time. If you want to put a separator in, type S1 = "S" on a line by itself in between the shortcut lines you want to separate. Once you have your menu done save it in the menu folder, naming it whatever you want but don't forget to give it the .ini extension, and make sure it's saved in unicode, not ANSI.

Once you have your menu .ini finished, create a shortcut to kkmenu.exe on your dock either by dragging it directly onto the dock or by using the menu to add a shortcut. Right click on this new item on your dock. and in the line for arguments type in the name of the .ini menu you just created, a space, then the name of one of the skin .ini files in the skins folder. For example, using files already provided with the menu, the arguments for an office menu would look like this:

kkofficemenu.ini kkskinmenu.ini


So, for each menu you want on your dock, you create a dock shortcut to kkmenu.exe and in the arguments line for each one you have the filename of the menu and the filename of the skin you want to use separated by a space, that's it!

Oops!! I gave the wrong info about submenus. The submenus do not need a separate .ini file, the submenu info is written into the original menu .ini file with the title of the submenu in brackets as you did at the beginning of your original menu.

Hope all this helps!!

I really should have gone over everything before I posted!!! Pertaining to separators in your menus, if you have more than 1 in a menu they must be consecutively numbered, for instance, if you have 3 separators in your menu they would be named as follows:

S1 = "S"
S2 = "S"
S3 = "S"
etc.

If anyone notices anything else I omitted or made a mistake on please post it so people don't get screwed up!!

Can a single Kkmenu have only one submenu?I tried two but the second one is blank.Please help (

Thanks Mr. Smith, it works fine now. The game will just have to be a seperate shortcut. I have one more question for you guys. I want to add a my computer (like the default item) to a "my computer" menu containing other items like control panel, my firewall, and my Anti-Virus. I have the control panel, the firewall and the A.V working, but when i tried to use the same link for my computer that the bar uses by default = ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} it wont work. Has anyone succesfully added my computer to a menu? Its driving me nuts (

This is what I have.....

"Link" = E:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe

"Arguments" = ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

I have multiple disks & OS's so yours might be C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe

Your'e tha man Hash. It works perfectly. Lol, now I have another one for ya
If I want to add the power menu that does the same thing as the start menu when you hit "Turn Off Computer" the log off, restart and shut down dialogue box...what do I link to?? I tried using the "powering" menu, but it dint work the way i wanted it to. I want it to work exactly like the start menu does when you hit "turn Off computer". What program opens that dialogue?

Pixel8 Put the following in a xxx.VBS file. Then run it.

Option Explicit
Dim Shell
' create Windows Shell Application object
Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject ("Shell.Application")
Shell.ShutdownWindows

to bring up that dialogue box, open notepad, enter:

Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.ShutDownWindows

save it as shutdown.vbs and drag the file onto your dock / link to it in your menu
I think that's what u r after anyway!

ok, i can do that. But the main reason why i wanted to know what the actual file that was run when you clicked "turn off Computer is because I want to skin it. Its is still the same old crappy winXP colors and I wanted to change it. But thanks for the other idea though.

That works great by the way

wow!! the new dynamic folders are incredible!!
But i think it means people who made new skins for v2 need to update them - I'm using Judge's brushed skin, and it doesn't display the scrolling arrows on the menu, so i have to click around to find where they are before I can scroll

Ok i just found an annoying bug - with the latest release I can no longer open web pages from the menu... it just opens IE and goes to the homepage.

Jiri Hi. I just downloaded 2.50 but KkSkinner doesn't seem to work properly: The menu view shows the frames for scroll up and down, but I can't see them all. Plus when I click on any box that shows a frame I get a scroll list popup but if I scroll through it I don't see anything until I move the mouse over the image itself.

Ah OK. This isn't quite what I wanted. What I would like to be able to do with a folder is to have the contents displayed in the first level menu. So if I have:

'A Folder = "F", "folder.png", ""'

I see the contents of not a menu that has one item called "A Folder" that pulls-right into "".

Can that be done?

Hmm. That comment didn't work. I'll try again:

A Folder = "F", "folder.png", "whatever"

would show the contents of "whatever" in the first-level menu, not an item called 'A Folder' with a pull-right arrow that shows the contents of "whatever".

One more thing: The scrolling doesn't work if I just press the mouse down where the scroll arrows are - it only scrolls if I move the mouse around a little. It stops scrolling as soon as I stop moving the mouse around.