[herd]

Hello, AveDesk friends.

Ever wanted to right click on your desktop and add a desklet as easily as a new folder or shortcut?

This small DLL does this. Extract the contents of the zip to a folder of your choice. Double click on adutil-register.bat. Click on OK. For uninstall, double click on adutil-unregister.bat.

Now, when you right click on empty space on your desktop, up to two menu items are added: "Start AveDesk" or "Stop AveDesk" (depends on AveDesk) and "New Desklet", if AveDesk is up and running, which will expand to a sub menu of all available desklets.

Issues:

• On 2000, it will place the desklet where the last click occured, if you have 20+ desklets, you'll have to move it up or so.
  
• On XP, it will place the desklet where the right click occured in the first place.
  
• It can't distinguish between the real desktop or a desktop opened in explorer, however the result is always the same.
  
• Don't ask me to build the control panel access into it, because:

Futures:

• Starting with AveDesk 1.2, this thing will also implement a property sheet page in the desktop control panel item so that the AveDesk control panel will be available there, by clicking on Properties in the same menu.

Enjoy!

Attached File(s)

•  adutil.zip (21.13K)
  Number of downloads: 2305

[Unbeliever]

HOLY CRAP!
this is better than ice cream!
i`m going to try it right now

[nightcrawler1089]

Very nice! Extremely Useful.
If you plan on developing this even further, I suggest an AveDesk context submenu (like the Winzip submenu, among other things), with even more options.
You could move the existing things that come up when you right-click a desklet (Remove, Lock etc...) in this submenu. Definitely, however, allow saving by right-clicking. I think this is a fairly common gripe- the number of steps it takes to save a theme.

Already, though, it's fine as it is!

Great job herd! I can think of no one else as good as you to take over in Ave's stead.
-nightcrawler1089

[Pe8er]

It's great and works like a charm, thank you herd

[aashish13]

WOW HERD!!! :woot: Thank you!!!

[deadzombie]

Wow, would you also post this on Aero-Soft under the widgets section? PLEEEASE?

This roxors my boxors.

[herd]

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Originally posted by deadzombie@Sep 12 2004, 01:22 AM
Wow, would you also post this on Aero-Soft under the widgets section? PLEEEASE?

This roxors my boxors.
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
I did this because I got rid of the taskbar and all desktop icons
under 2000, so I had no taskbar notification icon to click on and wasting an
entire ObjectDock icon for that seemed overkill....

[Ghostwalker]

Great addition thank you Herd

[shmengie]

sweet.

[idicula]

thanks!!!!

[juno]

Avedesk is still going to be developed? By whom? Only you know?
This is great, thanks.

EDIT
Do you want this in the news post? Click the link in my sig to see the new "rules" I created.

[castroman]

Very good idea herd ! good work.

thanks.


/aviel

[.: iD :.]

Hot sutff...

[nightcrawler1089]

I don't want to speak for herd, but all AveDesk development was turned over to him by Ave. There's no one I trust more- I know you had your part in AD 1.1, herd. Just out of curiousity, what exactly is COM Implementation?

Again, this context menu extension is a really great idea.

-nightcrawler1089

[kmccormi]

fantastic ... just what i was looking for, though i would have also liked a link in the context menu to avedesk's control panel. is this possible?

thanks herd!

[herd]

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Originally posted by nightcrawler1089@Sep 12 2004, 06:39 PM
I don't want to speak for herd, but all AveDesk development was turned over to him by Ave. There's no one I trust more- I know you had your part in AD 1.1, herd. Just out of curiousity, what exactly is COM Implementation?

Again, this context menu extension is a really great idea.

-nightcrawler1089
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@nightcrawler
Wrong. Nobody, and definitely not Andreas did turn anything over to me. He just needs some time to get his things sorted out. He has been silent on this board since September, 4th. He'll make an official statement about his application whenever he wishes. I'm just trying to keep it Rock and Roll. Yes, nobody told me to.

COM means Component Object Model and is the fundamental, eh, fundament for MS technologies like ActiveX (As in OCX controls or ActiveX Scripting), OLE (The industry standard glue that allows embedding of a spreadsheet into a word document and most cardinal: OLE Automation). Similar tech is employed all over Visual Basic, in each office macro, etc. Whenever there's a script telling AveDesk to do this or to tell that, scripted effectlets, your PC'll be processing my code, (about 10%) however what you see and work with is all Andreas (90%). This DLL steers AveDesk by COM, so does AveFocus and hopefully some more stuff. I am nowhere near to take over. I can but contribute.

@kmccormi
Read the readme.

[dede]

great work herd!

this features make really easy and fast the administration of avedesk...

Thanks!

[nightcrawler1089]

Open mouth, insert foot. Boy was I wrong. Good thing I put that disclaimer in Sorry herd for jumping to conclusions.

I know all about Ave's silence- let's discuss it no more. I think we're going slightly OT.

Again, great work, and thanks for the explanation of COM.

-nightcrawler1089

[DoctorOHM]

Thanx herd, this is what i 've always wanted, but did'nt know i could have.

[Null8Fuffzehn]

GREAT to see you keep on rockin' :-)