tab docks and number of entries

I'm not sure about the font - I like the default - but to increase the size of a tabbed dock, open it, then hover your pointer over either side of the dock. The pointer will turn to a "left-right" style, then simply drag to change the size. Note that all tabs will change at the same time, and if you set it too small, the text on the tabs themselves will get cut off.

By the way, you can also move the dock itself left and right by opening a tab, clicking and holding in an empty space, and moving your mouse side to side.

I see that I can hover over the bottom of an entry and drag up/down to add/remove rows. I can't seem to reduce the number of entries per row. The pointer won't turn into a left/right.

Hover over the side or at the corner, just like sizing a window.

If you mean the mouseover text, open an ObjectDock Properties dialog > Miscellaneous Options > Label Fonts .... make your changes there.

Turns out the problem is that I was using a Leopard 3D style. The left/right resize can't be done. I changed it to a box stye and it worked.

koasati, you are right. Seems silly to hide it there intead of on the Appearance tab. Thanks.

The lack of documentation is a big minus for these products, which are otherwise pretty cool.

By the way, what does a system tab do? It's just an empty tab. Is it supposed to do something special?

Hrm...so it only works on natively tabbed docks?

Do you mean resizing? Yes, you can only resize a tabbed dock.



There is a bunch of stuff at the WC Wiki. And of course, you always have us, your friendly neighborhood skinners.   

I don't know what you mean by natively, but it does not work on the 3d Leopard style or the Vista Glass. Seems it must be a box style in order to be able to grab the edge.

Koasati, I was wrong about that font choice on the Misc. Tab. It does not change the font of the text under each entry. So it appears there is no way to do that.

What I meant is those backgrounds that are listed as being "Tabbed." For example, Simple Tabs or Aero Tabs.

Those backgrounds have a box around the dock (even though they are called tabbed) so they work. The two I mentioned do not, each entry has a little "tray" or ring under it, with no box around the entire dock so there is nothing to grab.

When I say "entry" I don't mean the tabs themselves, but the individual icons within each tab.

I was able to change the dock style, resize it, and change it back.

OK, so you are using the "Show Names" option (right click tabbed dock > View > Show/Hide Names). Those labels will be the same as the tab font (OD+ Properties > Tabs & Styles > 'Adjust the font used for text on tabs')
Using the Show Names option makes your tabbed dock bigger than if it's turned off (Hide Names). If you Hide Names, you will get the name of the dock entry on mouseover, and that font is controlled under the Misc Options I spoke of.

The text on the show names is most definitely not the same as on the tabs. When I change the fonts on the tabs, the text under the individual entries does not change.

The fonts are the same for me.......

I've updated and tried to adjust this again.  I've found that the dialog box changes for font, bold, italics affect both the tab text and the text under the icons, but the size does not, i.e. if you change the size the tab text changes but the text under each icon does not change.