Object Dock and webex

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I use webex to do sales demos at work. I would like to use Object Dock during my demos, as it (should) streamilne the process of switching between open windows, which is something i do alot of. In the webex meeting i only share the specific applications that the client needs to see, not my whole desktop. 

 

That being said, in a webex meeting i turn off object dock, as it appears as 25 different open applications, which makes it inconvenient to sort through all of those applications to get to the one or two that i actually need to share. Is there a way to make objectdock appear as only one open application, which it is (2 if i have a tabbed dock open) in Webex? Has anyone else encountered this issue? Just to clarify, this is solely an inconvenience, as i am more than capable of shutting object dock off, running my meeting and then turning it back on, but i actually bought object dock for the purpose of making organizing my open windows during a meeting easier, and i have yet to be able to do that!

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Are you seeing 25 instances of ObjectDock in Task Manager?

This may be a bug in how WebEx is detecting windows and it may be considering each shortcut one.

Can you post a screenshot?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I unfortunately cant...the forum will not allow me to post pictures for whatever reason... No, i am not seeing 25 instances in Task Manager (26, actually, i just counted) just 2, 1 for the main dock, and another for my tabbed dock (i have 2 screens at work, so i keep the main dock pretty empty, it just acts as a task bar, and the tabbed dock on the other screen holds all of my programs.) I thought of that being a bug as well, but i only have 18 shortcuts on the tabbed bar, and i just checked with only having chrome open on my computer and it is still reading 26, so to test it, i opened 30 different programs, as well as object dock, my dual monitor manager (which doesn't show up in object dock at all) and windows blinds, and it still counts 26 instances of Object dock when i go to share a window...

I even just removed everything from object dock and shut every program down except webex, and it still shows up as 26 object docks...I have looked with and without windows blinds, with and without display fusion, and it always shows up as 26 instances of object dock to choose from to share. Like i said earlier, this wouldn't be a huge problem except that i have a large amount of windows open at once during a demo, and i have to be able to pick and choose which ones to share on the fly. If im not already sharing a window, i have to go through the drop down lists, and because there are so many instances of object dock, i frequently have to manually search for the window to share, as the drop down lists will only hold so many applications...

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I did always know how to do it, i just couldn't seem to get it to work correctly last week...

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Interesting...  I'm not sure exactly what those are referring to, but let's try a couple things.  First, try turning this off and restarting ObjectDock:

If that doesn't help, try going into the 'Troubleshooting Options', and turn this on:

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Rosco, that's not a problem with Objectdock, it's an issue on how Webdex filters the windows that it shows on that menu. Each icon in ObjectDock is a window with certain attributes set so it doesn't show up on the Taskbar or in Task Manager, according to Microsoft rules. Webdex is obviously not following those rules and ends up listing windows that it shouldn't.

I'm not familiar with Webdex, but I suggest that the op sends an email to Webdex developers with the following links to Raymond Chen's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/29/46371.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/10/08/5351207.aspx

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 7
Each icon in ObjectDock is a window with certain attributes set so it doesn't show up on the Taskbar or in Task Manager, according to Microsoft rules. Webdex is obviously not following those rules and ends up listing windows that it shouldn't.
End of JcRabbit's quote
Quoting Zubaz, reply 1
This may be a bug in how WebEx is detecting windows and it may be considering each shortcut one.
End of Zubaz's quote
You know you are doing something right when JcRabbit agrees with you.  :)

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 7
Rosco, that's not a problem with Objectdock, it's an issue on how Webdex filters the windows that it shows on that menu. Each icon in ObjectDock is a window with certain attributes set so it doesn't show up on the Taskbar or in Task Manager, according to Microsoft rules. Webdex is obviously not following those rules and ends up listing windows that it shouldn't.

I'm not familiar with Webdex, but I suggest that the op sends an email to Webdex developers with the following links to Raymond Chen's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/29/46371.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/10/08/5351207.aspx
End of JcRabbit's quote

I'm gonna go with his answer...

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks, guys! just for clarification, its Cisco Webex, by the way, but i do appreciate the advice. I will contact Ciscos customer service and post back here what they say if they can offer a fix!