[request] A The Mac Printer Docklet?

I just got a powerbook, and i found the printer docklet in the MACdock is very cute, when I print some file, in the icon in dock there will be a animation in which one paper slot down slowly from the printer icon, just like the real printer. Could some gifted one here make a docklet just like it for Y'z dock?

#164241

nice idea . I would like one too

#164245

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#164246

GREAT IDEA

#164263

plz, plz, plz, plz, plz!!!

#164268

Please post some screenshots of it in idle and in action -

I think I can add that to the stack of things I'm doing right now...

#164303

here you are the screenshoots. it is really beautiful printer in the dock.

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wow, i don't get that. when i print, a photorealistic icon of my own printer model (yes, exactly that model) appears in the dock, then disappears when the print job is finished. are you printing on a network or what?

#164379

Is it in synch with the actual paper output?

I think I can manage an animation for each page when its finished,

but only guess how long it would take for a single page to print.

#164433

Originally posted by ji eun@May 19 2004, 11:42 AM
wow, i don't get that. when i print, a photorealistic icon of my own printer model (yes, exactly that model) appears in the dock, then disappears when the print job is finished. are you printing on a network or what?

yeah, I actually print from the network.

and the time is the actual time one paper is printed, it is short. so for taking the screenshoot, I printed several papers.

#164757

Originally posted by ji eun@May 19 2004, 06:42 AM
wow, i don't get that. when i print, a photorealistic icon of my own printer model (yes, exactly that model) appears in the dock, then disappears when the print job is finished. are you printing on a network or what?

yeah, i get that too,

#164770

Originally posted by herd@May 19 2004, 09:56 AM
Is it in synch with the actual paper output?

I think I can manage an animation for each page when its finished,

but only guess how long it would take for a single page to print.

perhaps theres a way to sync to windows print manager/printing and faxing. that always seems to say what page I'm on.

another idea is to have a sort of label on the icon as to how many pages are left? sort of like the label for number of e-mails? again...another idea.

thanks for doing this

#164902

Someone please make this! it sounds good

#167940

This sounds promising! Keep going! I would love this beauty in my dock!

#168324

There is still one problem:

Neither YZ nor OD allow for desklets to appear and disappear on their own will -

so this desklet will be, as all other desklets, always on. The original Mac desklet shows up only during printing, as I suspect. However, AveDesk can do it.

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