docklet ideas/suggestions/requests

A dishwasher docklet that wash my dishes. A laundry docklet that does the launtry when I click. Oh, a a Bill docklet that pays the bills every month.

for the RecycleBin and stickies, I can port my AveDesk desklets to Object Dock, need to release 1.1 first though

The Systray -> I tried and succeeded partially, due to lack of time, I abandoned it for a while (just wondering now where the hell did I leave the source-code ).

I would like a Hotmail checking docklet. That would be pretty cool to see.

Also, a docklet that ties into Media Player would be cool. I know you have your AVS player, but I think one that tied into either WinAmp or Media Player would be good to have. Skinnable like the AVS one too.

I had another idea too: A web page docklet. Just one that pops up a small text box when you click on it that you can type the adress into. Skinnable, and easily configurable. Heres an image of what I mean:



What do you think of that?

Heres an image of what I mean:

Hey it's invisible.

I think I could skin that

You cant see that? Uh-oh.... Oh well. Heres a link to the image: http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/cerebrojd/images/ODidea.jpg
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I still can't see it Justin, but it's not your fault. I'm at work and the firewall here keeps blocking it

Also, a docklet that ties into Media Player would be cool. I know you have your AVS player, but I think one that tied into either WinAmp or Media Player would be good to have. Skinnable like the AVS one too.

The AV3 player docklet is pluginable . If someone knows how to interact with WMP or WinAmp, me a line and I will write the plugin for it.

A web page docklet.

I already have that here, not really skinable, but hey, it works

Sent me an e-mail to get it.

Andreas: I may have found out how to interact with Media Player from another program. I'm still getting details, but its showing promise.

This http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e43cbe59-678a-458a-86a7-ff1716fad02f&DisplayLang=en is the WinMedia Software Development kit, and it says in the information about the download that Media Player is accessible through C++ coding and other languages. I've downloaded it and now I'm looking through it.

oooh

Bump.

I dont really know what I'm looking for in terms of hooking into Media Player with C++. Have you gone through the SDK, Andreas?

Not yet, not yet, spend my whole day writing PowerPC assembler code , but I already downloaded it!

BTW, I'll get you the improved URL Docklet ASAP.
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Thats good. Thanks in advance for your work on that docklet!

if you still have request, plz post them. Nimix and I want to write some stuff, so post!!!!

LeXus

OK here is my request. A toolbar that when clicked opens like the startmenu docklet but instead shows your desktop icons, my computer and reciclebin as menus and my documents as menus that when opened show the folders in it as menus as well a challenge right? I know you can doit LeXus, show me the skills. I think this can be done just by linking the already existing desktop toolbar that can be place in the start menu(right click, toolbars, desktop)with the docklet.

for the animated icons,,, can you make them icons on the dock for the image to start a shortcut?,,,, for example, i have the MSN messenger animated icon, but i cant associate it with the msn executable......is there a way?

thanks

I have an idea for a docklet. It would work kind of like a menu, but more like taskbar groups than anything. This docklet would add shortcuts to the dock when you click on it, and remove them when you clicked it again. What shortcuts it displays when clicked could be configured through the docklet properties.

For example: You have an instance of this docklet called Games. When it is clicked, it creates 4 shortcuts on the dock, aimed at Minesweeper, Solitaire, Hearts, and Spider. Each shortcut works just like a normal shortcut, and opens the game when clicked. When the docklet clicked again, it deletes these icons from the dock.

In this way, its like a menu that expands or collapses the dock. Make sense?
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What is the command that makes the cdrom open remotely?

I'm gonna try to mold it onto my object dock as an experiment

#16 by Skinner CerebroJD - 6/2/2004 1:32:56 PM

I like that idea, CerebroJD. I had a similar one where a docklet acts like a cabinet. Click on it and it opens(slides out) perpendicular to the dock with several icons inside. The user can add or delete what is in the cabinet. There is a similar function in some of the XWindow managers.
Very functional and saves space.

Yeah!

@ jakehale: You can use this https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=animated+shortcut&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29 docklet to facilitate your animated icons opening up a .exe file or whatever...

Someone also mentioned a docklet that could chack Hotmail accounts, cant this https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=email&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=29&Docklets=on docklet be fiddled to do just that?

@ CenebroJD: Nice idea

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cant this docklet be fiddled to do just that?

Nope, Hotmail isnt a POP3 account.

However I think that outlook express is... And the latest version of outlook express can be fiddled into receiving your hotmail messages