Multiple Instances - Possible?

I want to try to have one dock for shortcuts and one for tasks (on different parts of my screen. Anyone know how to do this? I tried the old YzDock trick of copying the folder and running the program from there, but it just opens up the config for the current dock.

#85479

Can't be done as far as I know. You need to run both Moby and Object docks to do what you describe.

#85484

I think what OD does is creating a Mutex. If the mutex already exists OD is already started so it knows it should not show you another dock but should popup the settings dialog. Usually, a mutex is created with a name as a string. This name is hard-coded in the EXE file. If you can find out this name, create an OD folder and modify one character of this name in the EXE in this folder, OD should start.

What also can be happening is that OD detects that it is already running by searching for it's main window. If it's there -> already running, otherwise not yet running.

#85485

Originally posted by AndreasV@Dec 3 2003, 04:49 PM
I think what OD does is creating a Mutex. If the mutex already exists OD is already started so it knows it should not show you another dock but should popup the settings dialog. Usually, a mutex is created with a name as a string. This name is hard-coded in the EXE file. If you can find out this name, create an OD folder and modify one character of the Objectdock.exe in this folder, OD should start.
What also can be happening is that OD detects that it is already running by searching for it's main window. If it's there -> already running, otherwise not yet running.

nice thnx 4 that... might try that aswell... (Y)

#85498

you could run one instance of OD and one of moby, or any combination of the three docks as you see fit.

#85500

Thanks for the options. I didn't want to get into running Moby (BAD experiences with it). Maybe I'll try the name change and see if that works. Just no time right now.

#85531

Let us know how it goes......I'd like to trying running two docks.

#85559

I used to do this very thing, running yz for shortcuts and od for tasks, worked beautifully.

#85574