Aqua-Soft Forumshey all,
i love my dock, have it all customized, and have been making any icons i need. love the dock.
except....
i cant seem to launch games from it. counterstrike and bf1942 just dont work.
any advice?
Launching A Game From Mobydock
I have the same problem when launching games from Y'z Dock. I don't know why this doesn't work, though.
Well, this *may* solve you problem. You should make a shortcut of the main .EXE and then use that shortcut in the dock.
But, however, I don't think its a good idea to launch it from the dock because the dock may have post-game problems and the game might lose some FPS.
Unless things have changed with the dock(s) since I left? :baby:
The docks behave strangely with certain kinds of apps.... Java, QuickTime, TV tuners, games...
For some of those apps (full screen games mostly), it would be better to use a script/batch file that:
- shuts down the dock
- starts the specific app
- restarts the dock once the app (game) is finished
Make your icon in the dock link to the script rather to the app itself. That way, your dock won't interfere with your app in any way.
Wish I could write a sample script, but I'm too busy these days. Not so hard to do, though.
Good luck!
Ken
Ken: You only get those problems with OD,Y'z. Moby dock isnt affected by that, because thats a CPU problem. When I switched from Y'z to MD-DX, I was pleasently surprised by that.
Bill: The docks HAVE changed. MobyDock now is runs completly in DX9, so its hardware accelerated (like OSX) :own:
Nice to see you back, hows aqua-source coming. 
I'm still using the old Mobydock (no DX9) (!!!!!) and whenever I open a Java app it flickers out of joy 
Y'z dock still causes my TVtuner screen in DScaler go black 
Anyway, every user may experience different situations where the dock gets on his way. In those cases I suggested to temporarily shut it down.
Why are you using the old MobyDock, its so outdated (no offence Moby the god)?
Because:
Y'z messes with my TV
OD... I never liked the fact that I need to install it 
Mobydock DX:
- missing the "icons affected on mouseover" that previous MD had
- dragging shortcuts into the dock causes the "Start in" property of the shortcut to be ignored (have to think of a workaround for my Shortpopup popup menus)
Plus, in old mobydock it's easy to update the weather icon (iCal icon, or whatever needs to be updated)... Instead of restarting the dock, I can drag the icon off the dock and, without leaving the mouse button, put it back in place and ... tada!
Oh, and because I'm weird, of course!
Any more questions?
Moby dock-DX has menus built in, why would you need shortpopup?
How did you get a weather icon for MD? Do you have a program we dont know about? does it update itself?
ShortPopUp is highly configurable and can be set to open the menu at a specific height above the dock and not at cursor position.
For the weather icon, I used a script for samurize (slightly needed to modify it) that reads weather info from weather.interceptvector.com. Site is not functioning properly these days, so the script doesn't work either. <_<
oh, ok, that makes sense.
Have a good time using MD-Classic.
I have a feeling when the new version of MD-DX comes out next week (acording to our savior), you'll be a switcher though.
Originally posted by contrasutra@Jun 8 2003, 01:39 AMKen: You only get those problems with OD,Y'z. Moby dock isnt affected by that, because thats a CPU problem. When I switched from Y'z to MD-DX, I was pleasently surprised by that.
Bill: The docks HAVE changed. MobyDock now is runs completly in DX9, so its hardware accelerated (like OSX) :own:
Nice to see you back, hows aqua-source coming.
Hahaha Oh man, I knew about DX9 Dock before all of you! (1 of first testers) But, Beyond that, Yz and OD would have game/cpu problems.
And about Aqua-Source, uh, yah, its, well, going good.
well, it is easy to fix
i am a Objectdock user, i cant launch SOF2 and some games that engine based on Quake 3 system, so what i do is make a .bat file in the same directory as the game's, and her is the bat file:
@echo off
cd..
cd..
cd program files
cd Soldier of Fortune II - Double Helix
start sof2mp.exe
wish it could help.................
How do I set up the working directory for a game?
i.e. QuakeIII wont run from MD because it can't find default.cfg
this works firn in YzDock
no one knows?
This is a problem that I have brought to Moby's attention.
I had a problem running a program that launches UT2003.
I thought it was a problem with this program not Mobydock.
I sent this to the author:
I installed the new Mobydock and made a
shortcut to your program
to run Unreal Tournament 2003. I had it shutting
down Mobydock in the
process. When I push the button to launch your
program, nothing happens.
Your program seems to work fine with Y's Dock.
Here is what he replied with:
The problem with MobyDock is due to the fact that Moby
probably does not assign a correct working folder or
does not assign none. So when CloseToRunXP (the program described above) is launched
it can't find its dat file because the link created in
Moby does not show the working path. YzDock does that
and that's why it works!
I sent this information to Moby. He sent me this:
I will see what i can do about the working folder !!
So, there is really no point trying to figure out how to get Mobydock to work as that can only be fixed by Moby.