could this be possible Ripple effect
or this Flipping Stickies
also if avedesk can be accessed with vb could we make a control panel
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Ghostwalker, please, for the love of God, use square brackets "[ ]" and not parenthesis "( )"
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// Seph
What do you mean with control panel?
The amount of COM accessible functions allows for a lot of control,
but a fully fledged control panel seems to me beyond the capability
of the API; maybe with Version 1.2...
To see what you can do, open VB, add the Avedesk 1.0 Type library and
browse it with hitting F2. Then select AveDeskLib from the top left dropdown.
There, the Application object is the root of what you can do. Also for those
who code scripted effeclets, remember that the Desklet object you're applying
effects for is in the namespace of the script. You don't need to get it by
Application.Runningdesklets...
hth,
herd
edit:
Mods, please move this thread from Community Applications to Ave's Apps,
thanks
Both of those Effects look awesome!! I'm soo excited by the potential for this great update :woot:
I would love to see both of these ported!
wooow! really love the first effect. just imagine how it would look like with some "underwater" theme running under. lol
B²
what I mean with control panel is like shortcuts to different desklets I've been working on a samurize control for avedesk just wondered if it was possible with avedesk. And sorry about the parenthesis Seph brackets next time.
Remote steering of Avedesk by a samurize config is, to my shame, the last thing
I ever thought of.
Yes, you can. Have a config with loads of buttons, write dozens of scripts to be
executed when clicked. E.g:
'toggle visibility of a named desklet
dim ave, dlet
set ave = createobject("AveDesk.Application")
for each dlet in ave.runningdesklets
if dlet.about.name = "your name goes here" then
dlet.visible = not dlet.visible
exit for ' remove this line if you want to hide all with the same name
end if
next
Of course you can do a lot of nifty stuff with script execution. You aren't forced
to do Samurize, just add your scripts to a KKMenu config or to the start menu.
To the ripple effect - this one floats beyond the window boundaries of the desklet.
A trimmed down version could be made but it would require really fast hardware,
since the 3D kits for Windows require an opaque window to draw on, and off
screen render and blit isn't that performant. Maybe Siwu can help.
To the flipping stickie - that should be a possible addition to the stickies desklet
but the same problems apply here. Alilm's task switcher hack could be of some
help.
hth,
herd
PS:
Giving it a second thought, providing a completely different control panel
written in VB6 as a standalone app doesn't seem so far out yet...
If anyone could its probably you herd the whole thing was just a thought your right though the sammy config _ucks the standalone app sounds much better.
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