Some beginner AveDesk instruction

Hey people

I want to ask all u specialists to kindly give me some kind of full instruction, how to set up AveDesk, so that it fits my demand a much as (I think) a lot of beginner'S demands.

What I want is that if i move my mouse to the upper right corner, A new, partly transparent layer appears over the desktop / over windows or which application ever in general, and shows me the information, that i want in nice-looking widgets (calculator, weather forecast, stock charts, cpu usage meter ....)

When i click into some space between the widgets or press i.e. Esc, the layer incl. all the widgets disappears...

What I know is, that there is this kind of ShowCase, which is exactly like the layer I am talking about. Call me stupid, if i didn't see how to activate it easily, but the only way that I found out, how to start ShowCase is using a link on AveDesk with a command line extension.... And I additionally couldn't figure out, how to move widgets into the showcase, so that that just appear and disappear with that showcase....

I think, I found some explanations how to make showcase appear, when the mouse is put into some special far corner, but (sorry) I really doidn't understand that. I'm like a child according to this....

Please, can someone give a child-conform instruction???

Thanks a lot.

#481706

In the desklet properties, change the style to showcase, save,

than hit F8, you can change the hotkey in global settings

#481707

wow, that was quick!

thanks!

furthermore, I really sent this message before checking out everything, so I already found out, how to move deskjets into the ShowCase. (But still, thank u Davidsword for the explanation)

So, the remaing problem is:

How can I make Showcase appear, when I move my mouse to the far upper right corner?

Ans in general: Would u recommend to use 1.3 or the 2.0 Beta ??

Which one is more stable?

{{EDIT}}

And how do I configure the deskjets?

Like changing the displayed location in AH'S weather widget

or like changing the checked Stock course?

or changing colors and other options?????

#481715

Well i just have one question to add... please:

I only use AveDesk for Mac-styled icons (For Dashboard i use Yahoo! WE)

But i'd like to know if there's any form to show non True-Type fonts properly, 'cause everytime i try to set up a non TT font (let's say... LucidaMacBold, which is great) i only get an Arial-looking text... so it don't displays the font!

P.S.: Same for Photoshop (It doesn't shows LucidaMacBold on my fonts list, which is a pity...)

Font is .pfm, and i dunno how to convert it (for free... lol)

#481828

Well i just have one question to add... please:
I only use AveDesk for Mac-styled icons (For Dashboard i use Yahoo! WE)
But i'd like to know if there's any form to show non True-Type fonts properly, 'cause everytime i try to set up a non TT font (let's say... LucidaMacBold, which is great) i only get an Arial-looking text... so it don't displays the font!
P.S.: Same for Photoshop (It doesn't shows LucidaMacBold on my fonts list, which is a pity...)
Font is .pfm, and i dunno how to convert it (for free... lol)

I would also like to know if this is possible to do or does Avedesk only is able to use TTF. Thanks...

#481861

1.3 is obviously more stable since 2.0 is in beta(although v. 2 fixes a couple of bugs).... like dashboard(the mac widget engine if you don't know) usually there is a flip in the lower right corner of the desklet when you click it the desklet would flip and the settings stuff will be there.... there is also a hue/sat option in all desklets if you right click>Desklet Properties>Advanced Tab>Colorize(check the checkbox) then use the sliders to change it(note this applys to the whole desklet)... as for non-ttf fonts the only way is to convert them to ttf.... get a demo/trial ver of the converter if you must then convert them while you still can XD

#481899

Heres a question for you to,

I want to be able to click on a link on my desktop to open the Showcase - but for the life of me I can't work out how I would go about doing that

#482964

you can just add the argument "-opensc" ( without the quotes obviously) example place

"C:Program FilesAveDeskAVEDESK.EXE" -opensc

at the target of the shortcut or if your using a dock shortcut usually there is an argument box so just place

C:Program FilesAveDeskAVEDESK.EXE as the target and -opensc as the argument

info from alpha2zulu http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=46167

#482972

you can just add the argument "-opensc" ( without the quotes obviously) example place
"C:Program FilesAveDeskAVEDESK.EXE" -opensc
at the target of the shortcut or if your using a dock shortcut usually there is an argument box so just place
C:Program FilesAveDeskAVEDESK.EXE as the target and -opensc as the argument
info from alpha2zulu http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=46167

Thats Fantastic!

Many thanks for taking the time to answer.

Just what I wanted, now I can just click an icon to open up the Showcase

#483000