The moment you all have been waiting for...

A milestone of RK Launcher....

Dear Aqua-Soft members

It is my pleasure to be the first to show you the most amazing feature of the upcoming RK Launcher 0.4 (Thanks to RaduKing )

As you all know, Radu has already done phenomenal work with his project and gave us the most realistic Apple Dock clone ever.

But today he told me something, which seemed to be far away - and it's amazing:

The Genie* is here!

*in RKL: Alladins Lamp Effect

To give you the first taste of it, I made a small quicktime-movie, so that you can see it in action.

Updated video with updated effect: Click

CLICK HERE

or: Mirror 1

If you don't have QT7, try this version: Click

See the effect in its real speed: Click (recorded with normal camera)

http://carvetia.needlemen.com/larsen/rkl/a...in_live_web.wmv

I'd like to thank RaduKing for his amazing and breathtaking work - it's a big honor for me to present the Alladins Lamp effect to the community.

Greetings

#315728

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

#315731

very nice... when will it be out ?

#315734

Awesome I love RK Launcher. Can't wait for the release.

Do you know if this release will enable you to position RK Launcher above the task bar in Windows? I.E have the windows task bar at the bottom of the screen and then have RK Launcher directly above it instead of being below or on top.

I'm sure this was a future request?

#315735

Is it just me or is it that i can't play the video, anyway, i hope the aladin affect is as good as my brain can picture it , great work, can't wait

#315737

Is it just me or is it that i can't play the video, anyway, i hope the aladin affect is as good as my brain can picture it , great work, can't wait

The video is encoded with H.264 - so, you need Quicktime 7

#315738

its jsut that rk launcher is good,but i need tabs

tabs make docks so much more useful

#315739

BEAUTIFUL.

can't wait for the release!

#315740

very nice... when will it be out ?

It still takes some time - it's only the beginning. Radu still has to optimize etc.

But don't worry... it will come

#315741

What about a movie not in QT7 format? I want to compare performance

#315742

Updated first post (now with H.263 Codec for

For all: Please notice that the effect is a lot faster, than you see on the video

#315743

download quicktime alternative http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickT...Alternative.htm so you can view quicktime movies without having to install dreadful quicktime.

So where can we download build 169? (just kidding)

Edit: Why do people have to instantly post feature requests? There is a whole thread for this.

The Genie effect looks nice. Happy to see it

#315744

WOW! Thanks for the video preview (QT7 here LoL)

Do you know if the new release will support adjusting X, Y, screen positions like Moby Dock does?

To be able to float RK so many pixels into the screen area is a dream come true.

I'm sure this also was a future request

#315749

I think this looks flat out AWESOME!! Can't wait 'til Radu can perfect it and release it! Great job man

#315750

Are you kidding me? That is Mac OS X Dock:o

Awsome man!

#315753

THIS. IS. GREAT! Lookin awesome !

#315758

Fantastic!!

#315759

Very smooth.....

Movies are great

#315760

The video does not show it but Larsen2k4, have you seen if windows can be restored with the animations yet?

..would love to see a window restored with the Genie effect.

#315762

The video does not show it but Larsen2k4, have you seen if windows can be restored with the animations yet?

..would love to see a window restored with the Genie effect.

Doesn't work yet... but I'm sure that Radu will implement the reversed effect, too

#315763

good news.. i suppose windows which contents change while in the dock would have to be handled, but right now, when they are reduced to the dock, they are pulled from the taskbar, which many seem to like, however, is not fun when using expose clones such as TopDesk because they no longer get exposed. But I was wondering how those minimized windows are handled when they are removed from the taskbar placed off screen somewhere? No.. that then would still make them accessible by TopDesk I would think. Anyways.... If Raduking were to not really minimize the windows when going to the dock (but hide them in some fashion,) the windows could still be screencaptured right before restoring to reduce the effect of discrepent content when the animation ends and the window appears? This would address the issue with not functionally being able to use RKlauncher's 'minimize to dock' with TopDesk.

I sure hope he gives an option to allow minimized to dock windows to be captured by TopDesk and thus make using both programs concurrently an option again. *Crosses fingers*

#315767

actually there's a lot to discuss about this issue...

never used TopDesk but i'll give it a try to se what exactly does it do...

#315788

Amazing ! Thanks a lot for this, it rocks !

#315793

you rock raduking for taking a look at TopDesk interoperability! It's a great program and I was worried that I would be forced to choose between.

#315795

Holy Crap that looks sweet, if it's this good i might have to switch to rk launcher, at mo i''m still using object dock with judges genie affect

#315833