Objectdock 0.95 Bugs

note:

im not going to say blah blah yz dock is better than od or viceversa. Both docks offers their assets. Thats clear.

I for one, would like to show some things i found that would clearly make od a better dock. That is, a better dock _ not just a beatiful toy (as frogboy saids).

To make things easier i made some pics.

Here is a sequence, a folder (could be anything) moving to the dock | the idea is to show how both docks behave when an app is full screen.

This yz behaviour:

Note how the dock doesnt 'bother' you until you need somehting from the dock. When you click the folder, the dock goes to the back again.

Very nice.

This is Od behaviour:

http://anibal.virtual.com.uy/pics/123/od1.jpg

It 'bothers'. Tried all the options. It bothers.

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General notes:

I found od very fast, even faster than yz. (it has always been like that (but thats my and my box))-.It just feels smoother, yz moves a bit jumpy sometimes. I got like 90 ~ 100fps on yz and i use plenty of icons on it. On od i may have like 200fps, it feels smoother.

Od lacks separators. I believe there may be a way to add them on a hard way, but being able to add them easly would be nice. Very nice.

Od lacks the possibility of leting you drag a file to an app |ex: drag a .psd to the photoshop icon.

The taskbar thing on od is very nice. As nice as the bounce effect it has. Yz bounce properties aint that smooth. An engine thing probably.

Od trash bin...hates trash.

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Hope this notes helps jeff (and mr. y.) to improve their apps. (Even when the yz future development is not very probable), i wanted to drop these notes.

Deep respect.

aniba!

#36650

OD95 is great,... finally the trash pics up files from other drives, but still it does not do so instantly, you have to open and close a few windows before it updates it's icon to the full state.

#36664

yo three, the problem is not that od lags on displaying the bin icon. The problem is:

•when you drag stuff to the bin the bin itslef dodge the trash and move from one side to another.

•when you release the drag the bin gets the trash...but the dock gains an invisible item.

#36666

I'm still having the problem where ObjectDock 0.95 stays zoomed sometimes. Am I the only one having this problem?

#36707

Originally posted by imtoomuch@Jun 30 2003, 03:00 AM

I'm still having the problem where ObjectDock 0.95 stays zoomed sometimes.  Am I the only one having this problem?

No, I've been getting that. Sometimesits easy to get rid of, others it takes ages.

#36770

i was using od now...and i realized this.

you have a, for instance, a i.explorer window. You click on the minimize icon of that window so you get a thumbnail icon on the dock with a screenshot of it. Great.

now, you have the same window of i. explorer open. You click the app on the |taskbar| app is minimized b u t no candy thumbnail icon on the dock .

respect.

aniba!

#36897

How to make a shortcut to a Word Doc?

i've tried to drag the doc file into objectdock an dit works great to lauch but

when i close word, after several seconds, a windows message tells me that Word is crashed. :rant:

It should be an argument missing, something like that, i don't know...

Need help

thanks

Lio

#37013

Originally posted by lio@Jul 1 2003, 10:23 AM

How to make a shortcut to a Word Doc?

i've tried to drag the doc file into objectdock an dit works great to lauch but

when i close word, after several seconds, a windows message tells me that Word is crashed. :rant:

It should be an argument missing, something like that, i don't know...

Need help

thanks

Lio

I think you may have found the bug I've seen for as long as I can remember with OD...except I see the crash when I close Outlook 2002. However, it only crashes if you have the task pane enabled. So it's got something to do with the task icon of Office apps going away in some weird fashion that OD doesn't like. If you don't display the task icons, OD doesn't crash, but you lose half the usefullness of OD.

Note: I just installed 0.95 on my work machine and closed Outlook2002 and OD DID NOT crash...one time does not make an exhaustive test, but I'll keep tabs on it...hopefully this bug is now fixed for me at least.

#37034

hope jeff squash this bug:

Eventhough i have the autohide speed option set to |re-show smoothyl the dock behaves always |instantly|.

REinstalled the app...it happens anyway.

aniba!

#37076

Originally posted by hallf+Jul 1 2003, 12:49 PM-->

QUOTE(hallf @ Jul 1 2003, 12:49 PM)

#37302

Hi Jeff,

his version of OD is verry close wih "how-I-want-Objectdock". The "stay-on-top" bug persists, but in my oppinion is minor. I advise Jef to launch verry quickly the version 1.0, or a never-expire version of 0.95, because in any moment, Apple may finished the development of this application.

Respect.

#37789

I haven't actually experianced any bugs in .95, and with the addition of seperators, (and maybe docklets eventually) this will be an awesome dock.

#37860

I got one new bug in 0.95 version. I'm using autohide feature and when i call context menu for any dock icon and put mouse pointer under menuitem that lays out from the objecktdock bounds, object dock immediatelly hides without his background image. i.e. dock icons run out from the screen but background image stays. Stayed background image works like poped up objectdock (react on mouse clicks). This bug disappears when I try to call object dock once again.

There are some illustration in attach

#38655

step 2

#38656

voila, background not disappeared

#38658

why are your images so distorted ?

#38662

VideoMann

I post these images as file attach, this board supports image attaches for special frame size, and my images where stretched for these frame dimensions. For normal view you need to click on that images.

sorry for offtopic

#38873

I really can't say I like od that much because I use a lot of links to folders in my dock. With yz dock you just click and they open but with OD I need to click on them a ton to get them to open at all. It doesn't matter if I have any other windows open at all. I have just noticed that it does not handle opening up links to file folders well. I also have experienced the remaining zoomed bug a great deal and it is mainly just a big hassel. I'm finding I can live with out running tasks on my dock in favor of a dock that works correctly.

Kaniada

#38918

i wonder what jeff is up to. >.< .

#39058

you noticei n OD the indicators overlap the icons?... i think he has to fix the spacing from underneith the icons and above cause the spacing is wrong top and bottom wise... if you compare it to the real dock or yz/moby

and i also have that folder problem i just realised

#39061

i had already posted something similar to what kernel::panic in the objectdock .95 thread. anyway, here it is again:

add plug-in support to this baby, and goodbye yzdock forever! (or until that's improved, which remains to be seen with the email Mr. Yamaguchi recieved (if thats even real :rant: ))

ive been waiting for right click support on od for the longest, especially on the separator. i must say, the right click support is a bit buggy. when you right click on an icon and move the icon up on the menu, the dock (with autohide enabled) slides down and stops until i select something from the menu, or click somewhere else on the screen to close the menu. once i do close the menu, the dock's background stays there, with no icons, until i mouseover the dock again. here's two pictures to illustrate the bug:

menu error

menu error 2

this isnt that big of a bug, but it is however still a bug, so i felt the need to report it. great update tho. (Y)

#39128

I have noticed that OD will crash some times out of the blue when there are a lot of images in the icon folder, I have about 45mb or more of icons and I can only put about half of them in there and still have troubles sometimes, especially when changing an image for an item on the dock. <_< :dr_evil:

#39138

Originally posted by tHeGreatC0rnH0li0@Jul 9 2003, 02:19 AM

I have noticed that OD will crash some times out of the blue when there are a lot of images in the icon folder, I have about 45mb or more of icons and I can only put about half of them in there and still have troubles sometimes, especially when changing an image for an item on the dock. <_<  :dr_evil:

you tell me about it? i have 300mb of icons there!

it takes years to load >.<

#39272

Just recently OD has started crashing if i minimise windows explorer then maximise it by clicking on the OD running icon for it.

#41155

yeah, i dont know why, but my od is very slow, and unresponsive, adn the movement is very delayed, not very pretty. the drawing technology, under GDI engine, its slow, but the custom engine, it rocks, but the icons are jagged.. ???

#42418