[help] Show Desktop For Ob 1.0rc

I have the crappy scripts to show my desktop from wincustomize, but does anybody know of a way to get the funcionality of the showdesktop command from quicklaunch to work with OD 1.0? With the script, I can get my windows to minimize, but cannot get them to come back up by pressing the script dock icon again.

#81325

drag the quick launch icon to od and it will do both hide and unhide.

#81387

Hi,

I think the script runs in the lines of:

dim sh

set sh = createobject("shell") 'or suchlike

sh.minimizeall

of course, there is also a undominimizeall command

to the shell object.

If you know vbScript, you can easily write a few lines that

somehow record the fact that the windows have been

minimized and then reload the info and decide to call

'undominimizeall' instead.

On the other way, this is much easier:

- show your quicklaunch on the taskbar

- right klick on the button you are interested in

- select properties

- right to location select and copy the entire path

- open that folder in explorer (should end like "\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch"

- drag the item with the right (!) mouse button onto your dock

- if it doesn't work, putting the link into double quotation marks will help.

and you are done.

I have the strange effect that a single klick won't work

but a double will. (Windows 2000)

HTH,

herd

Sorry I doubled the above text in more detail, but it came while i was typing.

#81396

wont do nothing in the dock Ive been trying to get that to work also

#81426

Show desktop doesn't want to work with OD 1.0. I've dragged it back and forth to no avail, and I'm not really familiar with VB.

#81431

I think this is more of a windows problem.

If you do a minimize all by script, explorer loses count what he

has minimized - sometimes it works, but then you get both

the "minimize all" and "undo minimize all" menu items grayed out

(in the taskbar context menu), even if one or more windows are visible.

Alt-Tabbing to another application seems to reset the count but this isn't

nice at all.

I have given up - I use +m or d instead.

#81551