ali_gt Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow :staffs here: Link to comment
alilm Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 a webpage like this become your background via the active desktop in Windows. Link to comment
rockyoursocks Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Seems to be interesting, your "wallpaper" looking foward to that! :woot: Link to comment
Quazimodo Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Impressive! :woot: ~ Quazimodo ~ Link to comment
thecowgoesmoo Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 wow :woot: this is the greatest thing i've ever seen, any idea on a release date? Link to comment
Hobbes Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 You HAVE to make an option to only open selected dashboard components. If you only want 1 and all of them come popping out then what ? Anyway, you don't have to. But it would be nice. Link to comment
Ken Posted July 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Those are the widgets I intend to include so far. Some of them are ready, some are on their first steps. If I have a hard time with some widget, I may temporarily drop it in order to release the whole thing earlier. Link to comment
Hobbes Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Take a look. Inspiration ! Good luck. An HURRY !!! Link to comment
Infinity Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 In the Calendar Widget I think you may have got slightly confused, you don't have Friday, instead you have 3 S's... Anyway, I sooo love this app! I want it for my desktop! btw I have been thinking, couldn't you make the desktop transparent (leaving the link to show the widgets of course) and then export the whole thing to any EXE that could run 'over' the desktop? np if this is not poss... Link to comment
Ken Posted July 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Thanks for the tip, Infinity. I guess it was my wish for a long weekend that caused the 3 S's About your idea:... it would be possible to capture a screen of the desktop, use it as a background for my app and then show it on top of all other windows, using a hotkey. That would be more like the real Dashboard, but I think it wouldn't be as fast as what I'm trying now. Link to comment
Ken Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Trial time! In order to start playing with it, there is a download for you, but read the following instructions first. Download 1. all files must be extracted to C:\System\Appearance\Wallpaper Sometime later I will let you customize this, but for now please tolerate with my HD structure 2. in order to see iTunes current song and artwork, you have to run iTunesMonitor.exe If you want to close it, use Task Manager. 3. in order to use iTunes buttons (Play/Pause, FF/Rew), you have to lower security in IE (IE menu: Tools - Internet Options - Security - Local intranet - Custom Level - Scripting - Enable) ...or something similar! This will enable Active Desktop to start apps & stuff. 4. Set Dashboard.html as your desktop wallpaper. (Start - Settings - Control Panel - Display - Desktop - Browse - find Dashboard.html - OK!) 5. Replace wallpaper.jpg with your own background. Just keep the same name. Click on the desktop and hit F5 to reload your new wallpaper. There are lots of stuff not working or not working properly yet. Address Book is totally useless, iTunes remote only has these 3 buttons and doesn't support other than english names, the widget selector may behave strangely at first, etc. Let me know of any other bugs you find, comments or anything. Good luck! Ken Link to comment
davjon70 Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 This is awesome! Thank you Ken. Click pic for full size! Link to comment
TheBigB Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 its beutiful i even have tears of happiness :cry: Link to comment
TheBigB Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 iTunes's controller doesn't work. it says path not found. otherwise everything works GREAT! Link to comment
Ken Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by TheBigB@Jul 10 2004, 03:15 AMiTunes's controller doesn't work. it says path not found. otherwise everything works GREAT!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>IF you've followed the instructions (use the specific path, IE settings, etc), try setting your wallpaper to something else (apply it, don't just select it), and then back to dashboard.html Link to comment
TheBigB Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by Ken@Jul 9 2004, 08:31 PMIF you've followed the instructions (use the specific path, IE settings, etc), try setting your wallpaper to something else (apply it, don't just select it), and then back to dashboard.html<{POST_SNAPBACK}>tried that. i have a dual xp boot (mce and pro) does that possibly cause it? i tried running it in c: and d: all in \system\wallpaper. Link to comment
Ken Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 it's c:\system\appearance\wallpaperyou can't have it in another drive letter or another folder. i was too bored to write a setup or a configuration window. sorry for that! Link to comment
rooskee Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 When i try to set my wallpaper as something else, i get nothing but a black background, and i cannot click on it to make the "dashboard" show up. I am trying to use a 1280x1024 wallpaper if that helps. Link to comment
Ken Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 make sure your picture's filename is "wallpaper.jpg"click on the desktop and hit F5 (refresh). Link to comment
kamengau Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by davjon70@Jul 10 2004, 10:58 AMThis is awesome! Thank you Ken. Click pic for full size! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey nice one dav! Wat's that tabber program you'r using and where can I download that from? Edit: Oh yeah, how bout those awesome icons too? Cheers! On Topic: Awesome stuff Ken. Gonna try it out soon! Link to comment
thecowgoesmoo Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 very nice job, ken - how do i remove "preview release" from it? Link to comment
babypapichulo Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 OMG!!! I am using it now! KEN you are an amazing Flash producer..Good job man.! :woot: Link to comment
davjon70 Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by kamengau@Jul 10 2004, 02:47 AMHey nice one dav! Wat's that tabber program you'r using and where can I download that from? It is a theme I made for Objectdock (long before they released tabs) and it can be found here: Tabs With Objectdock <--- Click here to download Link to comment
grim53 Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by thecowgoesmoo@Jul 10 2004, 02:36 AMvery nice job, ken - how do i remove "preview release" from it?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>that , and were do i get the itunes monitor, cuase the itunes remote wont display whos playing the the puzle wont seem to work. but this is freaking awsome! Link to comment
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