Panta Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Please post your XWD-related feature requests at this thread. Remember though that nothing says that they'll ever get implemented... think of them as 'food for thoughts!' Link to comment
skdj Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Let me know what you think...http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showpost.ph...171&postcount=1 Link to comment
AndrewYY Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 hmm... realtime icon reflections (or at least ones that update sometimes) would be nice Sometimes I minimize progress bars into the dock, and it'd be nice to see them update Link to comment
nodeffect Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Adjustable position for indicators and icons? hmm Link to comment
Layer Cake Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Adjustable position for indicators and icons? hmmI second that. At least the indicator so we'll can make skins with indicator in the front line. Link to comment
iJesse Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 A dock notifier for windows or messages, like if you get a instant message a dock icon will bounce until activated. Link to comment
suckingfaces Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 A dock notifier for windows or messages, like if you get a instant message a dock icon will bounce until activated.I asked about a docklet to do that, like something similar to iChat or Adium, a while ago. Nothing ever came of it though, so I will second your request. Link to comment
matonga Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 A good way to implement iJesse's request would be as follows:(warning, technical content follows)- Intercept FlashWindow API call.- Whenever the function is called, search for an existing dock icon of the corresponding app, and make it jump.There's a little detail with RocketDock (dunno XWD dock) where if the icon jumps while the dock is auto-hidden, I can't see the icon jumping (Mac OS X displays the icon jumping over the screen border... looks kinda funny). Link to comment
shishimaru Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I had an idea about stack animation called "wind blow" You can also download an animation version below. Thank you Stack Animation - Wind Blow.zip Link to comment
Panta Posted January 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 (Mac OS X displays the icon jumping over the screen border... looks kinda funny).OD behaves just like that too, so, it's possible... Link to comment
Elevati0n Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Wow...never saw that stack icons animation on my leopard....hmmm... but it's an idea..why not for XWD? if we can we 'll do! Link to comment
atreiu Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I had an idea about stack animation called "wind blow" You can also download an animation version below. Thank you Lol, great Ideas, Shishimaru I certainly will take a look at the new animation-plugins. Your demo looks great! Do you already have kind of an algorithm for your animation? Link to comment
shishimaru Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Lol, great Ideas, Shishimaru I certainly will take a look at the new animation-plugins. Your demo looks great! Do you already have kind of an algorithm for your animation? Of course not. I don't know any code , just made animation by motion-tween. Thank you. Link to comment
estrahon Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 How about the realtime changing of the text on a label. If someone has a music player on such as Pandora where the title is always changing, it would be nice to see what song is on by just hovering over the icon. Link to comment
Panta Posted January 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 A simple, easy to implement one: configurable quickview size (grid). Link to comment
AndrewYY Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Alright. After slaving away for a few hours, I finally came up with an alternate grid animation (complete with actual code to calculate scaling)I call it... the wobble/bounce grid :cool:! It's an exe, so feel free to screw around with clicking it...If any of you programmers out there feel like implementing it into XWD, then please tell me, and I'll explain exactly what the algorithms, etc are.Warning: the program I made this in exports huge bloated exe files... 1.68 MB :slant:stackanimation.zip Link to comment
matonga Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 We already have docklets.What about animation plugins? (or some more proper name) It would be plugins for XWD allowing us to write custom animations for fan / grid / icon magnification / icon bouncing. Link to comment
atreiu Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 We already have docklets. What about animation plugins? (or some more proper name) It would be plugins for XWD allowing us to write custom animations for fan / grid / icon magnification / icon bouncing. You don't know, yet? Bobah already implemented this for 5.4. Only for fan & grid animations at the moment, but it's a start. I'm curious, how this will work out. Alright. After slaving away for a few hours, I finally came up with an alternate grid animation (complete with actual code to calculate scaling)I call it... the wobble/bounce grid :cool:! It's an exe, so feel free to screw around with clicking it... If any of you programmers out there feel like implementing it into XWD, then please tell me, and I'll explain exactly what the algorithms, etc are. Warning: the program I made this in exports huge bloated exe files... 1.68 MB :slant: To all the animation-designers: a) For your demos, Slow-Motion is needed! (I could use Ctrl + "->" in shishimaru's flash, but not in yours, Andrew). To implement such things, developers need to understand, what's actually happening Try to stay with simple "rules", that can be described geometrically (like "first circle around, then go straight to the final position" or something ). The wobbeling for example seems to be much easier to be implemented than shishimaru demo. How about the realtime changing of the text on a label. If someone has a music player on such as Pandora where the title is always changing, it would be nice to see what song is on by just hovering over the icon. Technically no problem and a good idea. Only someone have to write a docklet for it. I would do it, but my favorite one and only mediaplayer Songbird has no API for such things, yet. And i will not do it for any else Mediaplayer... A simple, easy to implement one: configurable quickview size (grid). What do you mean? I can't understand what you mean by "quickview". Is it a OSX thing? Link to comment
Panta Posted January 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 We already have docklets. What about animation plugins? (or some more proper name) It would be plugins for XWD allowing us to write custom animations for fan / grid / icon magnification / icon bouncing. Now that's a really great idea! You don't know, yet? Bobah already implemented this for 5.4. Only for fan & grid animations at the moment, but it's a start. I'm curious, how this will work out.I thought it was supposed to be a... Link to comment
Suzumushi Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Requesting an option to adjust position of dock items, whether it should be implemented to each skin's settings or on the XWD Menu I dont know, either one, whatever people like the most. User Panta mentioned Icon Offset for icon preferences, so something like that works too To BOBAH You can see here why I have made this request, click http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showpost.ph...97&postcount=45 Link to comment
jakub.karasek Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'd like to have in dock:1. see all running apps with possibility exclude them (for example if I dont have notepad in dock and open it, i want to see it in dock. When I close it, it dissapears from dock)2. Change stack icon and dont see other icons in stack, just the chosen one Link to comment
Panta Posted January 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Requesting an option to adjust position of dock items, whether it should be implemented to each skin's settings or on the XWD Menu I dont know, either one, whatever people like the most. User Panta mentioned Icon Offset for icon preferences, so something like that works too To BOBAH You can see here why I have made this request, click http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showpost.ph...97&postcount=45 @bobah: his request is really pertinent and the end result is very good, imho. Link to comment
yusufmothman Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hey guys, There'd be one docklet that I'd be happy to have, Window Switcher. Link to comment
atreiu Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'd like to have in dock:1. see all running apps with possibility exclude them (for example if I dont have notepad in dock and open it, i want to see it in dock. When I close it, it dissapears from dock) 2. Change stack icon and dont see other icons in stack, just the chosen one Especially your second one is high demanded. Don't show the stack in the icon itself, just the icon we choose. I vote for this one, too Hey guys, There'd be one docklet that I'd be happy to have, Window Switcher. I think this is no job for a docklet, but for a separate Application (of course it can be done as a docklet, too). If I where you, i would pick one of the many existing free Windows Switchers, and just assign an Icon on the dock to the shortcut for Switching. Link to comment
matonga Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hey guys, There'd be one docklet that I'd be happy to have, Window Switcher. I have no idea if this works, because I don't have Vista to test. Add a shortcut to: ::{3080F90E-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257} And try running it. Link to comment
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