[Ronnie Coleman]

Does someone want to make step by step tutorial about making Hard disk desklet with usage in percent on the right side?

See attachment...

[ppoppe]

@Ronnie: there really isn't a need to make a step by step tutorial, it's fairly simple. The desklet itself will help you set up the sublabel, just go to the label format tab and follow the guidelines there. As far as putting it on the right, all you have to do is set your label vertical position to "bottom" and horizontal to "center", and position it on the right.

[Ronnie Coleman]

I know. But when I take screenshot my desklets is not visible

[SirSmiley]

Ronnie Coleman said:

I know. But when I take screenshot my desklets is not visible

R U taking a screenshot of the Desktop or Active Window? Had same problem with Xnview but, just added the Screen Capture Docklet & resolved that.

[Unbeliever]

Ronnie Coleman said:

Does someone want to make step by step tutorial about making Hard disk desklet with usage in percent on the right side?

See attachment...

Are you even trying? I KNOW labels and sublabels are explained in details in the tutorial.

Here's a quote from the tutorial:

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Type – You can choose regular label style (always showing under the desklet) or no label. If
check “Only visible on mouse-over” option is checked, label will appear when a mouse cursor is
hovering over the desklet.
Caption – Contains font, font color, shadow (and shadow settings) and background settings.
Shadow settings (“Settings” in the Caption section) control shadow color, alpha (transparency of
the shadow) and Offset. Offset controls the position of the shadow in relation to the desklet.
Sublabel – marking this field will enable sublabel which usually displays extra information of the
desklet. These can be number of files, drive size, free space, FTP upload speed or anything else,
depending on the desklet. Font and shadow settings are set in the same manner as those for
normal labels.
Alignment and Rotation – This section controls the label position and depends on the Position
setting. Horizontal alignment can be set to center, left and right. It aligns label to the left, center
or right. Vertical alignment can be top, middle or bottom. All these are set within and dependant
on Position setting.
Position and Size – Sets the label position relative to the desklet image. Can be set to bottom, top,
left or right. (Ex. “Left” will put the label on the left side of the desklet image). Margin controls
the distance of the label from the desklet image. So if you set it to “0” the label will be set just
under the desklet image. Max width & Max height control the maximum width and height of the
label.

Drives
Drives desklet is responsible for representing drives as your AveDesk desklets and is used ONLY
for drives. Besides the basic desklet options (described in previous chapters), Drives desklet
contains few specific options. First of them is label format. This tab lets you choose the
information that is being displayed by the sublabel and its format. Format is set by entering the
preset sublabel strings. User can choose to display number of files ( by entering %f in the field),
number of directories (%d), total drive size (%t) (drive size is automatically adjusted depending
on the drive size), free space size (%s) ((drive size is automatically adjusted depending on the
free space size), percentage of the free space for the drive (%p) (NOTE if you enter only %p, you
will see just the percentage of free space without the % mark. To display the % symbol next to
the free space percentage meter, enter %p%% ). To add a new line to the sublabel use %# string.
The new line will appear under the first one.
In “Label format” tab you can also set your desklet to display drive name that appears in My
Computer and add drive letter before the caption in the Label.
“Images” tab gives an option to set a drag-n-drop image for Drives desklet. This image will
appear when a file is dragged over/in the desklet.
The “Drive” tab lets users choose the drive and hide the desklet when the drive is not
mounted/present in the system.
TIP: Use “Hide when drive is not mounted option” to have a CD/DVD icon popping up on your
Desktop when media is inserted/disappearing when it's ejected from the drive.
TIP: If you drag a file to a drive desklet, it will make a copy of it in the drive that desklet is
pointing to. If you want to move a file, hold the shift key while dragging.
Folder
Similar to drives desklet, folder desklet represents folders. The “Label format” tab holds the
setting for information that is being displayed by the sublabel and its format. Format is set by
entering the preset sublabel strings. User can choose to display number of files (by entering %f in
the field), number of directories (%d), size of folder in bytes (%s) (size is automatically adjusted
depending on the folder size). To add a new line to the sublabel use “%#” string (without quotes).
The new line will appear under the first one. You can also set folder to automatically update
desklet label to folder name.
“Images tab” sets the drag-n-drop image for the Folder desklet. This image will appear when a
file is dragged over/in the desklet. In “Folder tab” user sets which folder the desklet points to.

[Unbeliever]

This is not a ACDSee thread. Stay on topic, please.

[shmoolikilpod]

thank u for this files

[snap1500]

hey guys. ive done all i can trying to get avedesk going the way i want but i just want someone to confirm the steps to installing a new docklet/desklet and adding it so it can be seen and used.

heres the deal-

i download a new docklet. the instruction says just unzip it to the docklet folder in avedesk. then add it...

i unzip it in the folder like they say. i go to avedesk to add it but it doesnt show up for me to add it.

i try another method, i manually copy and paste each file, (such as config file to config folder, script file to script folder...) and then when i go add it, it shows up in the list and i click add and it works..

i dont think i should have to do this every time with new docklets...since the instructions says to just unzip it into docklet folder, it should just work. right?


someone please confirm the proper way for me...i getting dizzy looking around for instructions again and again.

[stovepipe]

Why is everything a ".aveinst" file..when it clearly should be a .rar/zip file :S...You don't have any programs that asociate with it..they just change the icon...why..?

[Unbeliever]

.aveinst files is the new format of auto-installing desklets.

Just set AveDesk to open them.

[chaniela]

I need help.
i download a desklet and unziped it to the desklet folder, but then it doesen't appear in the control panel. So i cant add it.
I also tried to install some .aveinst but it doesen't work....
Someone please help me

[Fiztan]

I download the 1.2 version, but I cant download the manual because i need more privileges, how i can obtain more privileges?

Me he descargado la version 1.2 pero no se muy bien como funciona, me gustaría poder descargarme el manual pero dice que necesito mas privilegios, como los puedo obtener?

Thanks

[nightcrawler1089]

Uh, there's actually a 1.3 version and no manual yet. You don't need more privileges. Play around with PidlShortcut and look in all the options--that should get you started .

-NC

[maatriks]

Can anybody tell me, when tutorial for 1.3 comes. I have theme, which only works with 1.3 but i cant understand this program at all:(. Just tell do you finish it in summer or not. I am waiting for it, truly i am.

[slaytanic]

Great man! so cool

[Irishllama]

I'm on the same boat with ronnie (Yes I Downloaded the tut). When I try to setup the "My computer" desklet to tell me how much space I have used on it, I get nothing. Just the My computer still.

(But good tutorial)

[JPakaSwizz]

When I first wanted to install aveinst files the Open With dialogue box opened, but I could never make AveDesk go into this box by for browsing it (it would never be added to the list) now I have to just drag the files into the desklets control panel, this is a real pain is there any fix fr this?

Thanks

[nightcrawler1089]

Are you still using AveDesk 1.1, or have you updated to AveDesk 1.3 or 2.0 Beta?

-NC

[JPakaSwizz]

im using 1.3, the files are show as being recognised by avedesk (the icon is the box) but they dont open when i double click them...

[nightcrawler1089]

Maybe you didn't register the program correctly. Go to the main AveDesk folder, and then try clicking "Unregister.bat." Once that's done, click "Register.bat."

Hope this helps,
-NC