Beta 1 of any software always lacks features then beta 2 adds them. Beta 3 will improve on everything and hammer down all the features that will make up the finale or retail version.

Then RC 1 and RC 2 will have little tweaks. This is how most software is made so stop saying it is lacking everything it a beta. I would say if Beta 2 or 3 doesn't have all the features of 1,92 then complain. I mainly want to import my theme.

Silver Fox, Speedy trays and other trays as well, bottom of screen, auto distance from edge,always on top.

With the bubble effect applied, resizing the icons causes OD to crash. No crashes with any other effect applied. 

There is an issue with the preserve edge feature. Sometimes it does not preserve the edge, windows will expand over the preserved area. When I unload it and open it back up it works fine again. Is it me or does it happen to other people to?

Why such a configuration window is small and can not enlarge it? Subtitles do not fit. And I can't add the flyout menu or any menu. Not folder as the menu.

what new features?  there are less features than object dock 1.9, this is a pre-alpha release if anything

i'm still waiting on the winFX update for vista that was promised 3 years ago

nope, beta is when you stop adding features and start testing them on a bigger scale, alpha is where u add features.  this beta actually takes features away so to me, pre-alpha release

the biggest issue here is the lack of developer communication, lack of information on planned features.  other free docks are better, and nexus dock makes object dock 2 look ancient in terms of features and that gets regular updates, from a one man team.  there needs to be better developer/consumer discussion going on so we know that our ideas are heard, adn we know what ideas the developer has.  stardock is just getting stretched too thin and can't keep up with things they promise, as has been seen over the past several years since vista release.  some apps never even received vista compatible versions that had dates set on them.

did u just compare the development of a fully fledged PC game, to a PC dock app?  thats priceless

Because every one knows that the release cycle of a game is so vastly different from the release cycle of an application. 

Someone refund this guy's money just so we can be free of his nonsensical whining.

I am sick of people calling others that have valid points of criticism 'whiners', just because some people  can't stand the truth.

wow, never remember asking for money back

There should be a cover flow effect when hovering  over an item in the dock.

this is nice and dandy,

 Some are complaining about problems in the beta over a few months, I reported a set of problems with object dock 1.9  to support OVER 2 years ago, and they are still here, even in this newest of new version 2.0 beta.  

 WHEN will you fix the multiple visual problems that show up when using a multiple monitor setup.

IE: when set to autohide on the edge between two monitors, the bar just moves from one monitor to the next, but nothing is selectable when in this visibly "hidden" state!! the bars should disapear, not move to the other mointor, I would think that this should not be all that hard too fix since it works correctly on  the "tabbed" bars, it is just wrong on the "animated" bars.

Also there is the problem with the seperator bars between the groups on the animated bars that show up in the wrong/different monitor than the monitor that the bar is actually put on { and in this case, it does not even hide the seperators when the bar is "hidden"}.  

and a new additional problem, just for version 2.0 that does not happen in 1.9 at all.  if you have 3 monitors, you are only allowed to put the animated bar on monitor 1 or 3 , it lets you select monitor 2, but it just goes ahead and puts it on monitor 3 anyway.

I may be whiny , but since I paid for this over 2 years ago, and then paid again for an update to 2.0 , Is it really too much to ask of them to fix ugly visual problems in the real usage world, before they spend time prettying up the setup screen and making feature that are only bells and wistles worthy?

 the tool is actually fantastic and I use it a lot, but I think it is rediculous that with 12 monitor edges available, there are only 3 places that an animated toolbar will work right for me.

I've been using OD2 Beta for several weeks now and I've generally grown quite fond of it. Yes, there are some bugs here and there (already mentioned in this thread by others), but on the whole I like it!

There is one feature I would like to request though (if there is some other place where new features are supposed to be requested, please point me there... I didn't find anything): Please expand the ability to hide specific icons of running apps (as currently is the case for tray icons) to the taskbar! As I have pointed out here, this feature would be necessary for OD to work as a real taskbar replacement without redundant icons. As it is already possible to remove an icon from the list of open windows by right-clicking it, choosing Dock Options and then "Remove Icon", the only thing missing to implement my requested feature is a "list" in which OD can remember which windows to hide so they don't reappear next session.

Running Win 7 Professional 64bit on HP laptop with 8GB RAM

Couple of bugs

Just upgraded to v2 Beta

Like it overall, still learning my way through it.

Two apparent bugs so far.

1.  configuration window text is cramped and run together.  Can be expanded vertically, but not horizontally which is more of the problem.  Text is truncated or overlaps and hard to read.  Have to guess at what menu items say or just click on them to explore.

2.  Sometimes a program is closed but stays on the dock as an open program only w/o an icon.  Right now in the "open windows" portion of the main dock, there is a blank space like an extra separator.  Mousing over it brings up a blank zoom with the name FileZilla.  Problem is, FileZilla closed half and hour ago.  Clicking either right or left mouse buttons does nothing, no menus, nothing.   This is the second time this happened this evening.  Early instance disappeared after a reboot.

Thank you for your hard work.

Will the icon quality for system folders be improved? Because the are really blurry.

I'm Running Vista Home Premium 3Gb Ram.

I recently switched to running a top taskbar and have two docks on screen a 7 tabbed dock on top and a zoomer at the bottom.

I have hidden the tabbed dock as I don't want to use it at the moment. I found that if you mouse to the top edge of the screen the icon label for the active but hidden tab appears and will not disappear untill docks are unloaded, or the hidden dock is shown and a new mouse over applied.

Submitted for your information

My own personal fix is have a blank tab on the dock and make sure that is selected when the dock is hidden

Great job on this beta, love the reflections in the docks, but would like to be able to size the reflection as sometimes tabbed docks can look quite big (my only gripe)

"Issues found so far"
By AKAJohnDoe Posted June 3, 2010 8:49:06 PM

I just installed V2 a few hours ago and have a few questions.

 

   1. V2 appears not to be a completely separate installation from V1. How can I uninstall V1 safely?
   2. I have some home-grown cmd files that require they be run  as adminstrator. I used to right-click and choose run as administrator. This is no longer there on a right-click in V2. I need it.
   3. I cannot find anywhere where the "running programs indicator" is defined. Is it no longer supported?
   4. Startup should go under HKCU:Run rather than the StartUp Group (I turned off the settings option to load OD at startup, deleted the shortcut out of the startup user's group, and created the entry in HKCU:Run to accomplish this)

As previously described here: https://forums.stardock.com/383357

Before this reaches final release can we get an option to show text labels in zoomer docks instead of them only being visible during hover.

For anyone that is having trouble with monitor selection what I did to remedy the problem:

1. Uninstall secondary monitor and video card drivers in device manager
2. shutdown
3. disconnect secondary monitor
4. turn comp back on install VC drivers
5. restart
6. shut down
7. connect sec. mon.
8. start and place docks as desired

This bug is not isolated to OD2 I had the same problem with Actual Window Manager as the monitors were shown opposite of what Windows/NVCP reported.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still watching this forum thread and taking notes. I appreciate all the ideas and bug reports.

Another addendum to a new improved colorize section (equivalent to that of WB): the ability to select "none" again in the color drop down and an option to apply the same color to ALL tabs at once instead of having to do them individually. This can be really tedious, especially when they're all custom colors and you have to go in and edit the RGB values for every tab.

Upgraded to v2

My settings seems to cause an error somewhere in objectdock, the actual message is:

Debug Error!

Program: C:\Program Files(x86)\Stardock\ObjectDockPlus2\Object2.exe

Module: C:\Program Files(x86)\Stardock\ObjectDockPlus2\Object2.exe

File:

Run-Time Check Failure #2 - Stack around the variable 'szType' was corrupted.

Symptom:  Cannot open OD2 settings (either from the actual dock, or from the tray icon) it says "Please open ObjectDock before trying to configure it"

I've tried removing my settings and relaunch OD2 and it loads fine without the error. Tried resetting settings and reinstalling my own ini's againOD2 gives again the same error.

I wonder where is the new log file, the last log I found was on User\AppData\Roaming\Stardock\ObjectDockPlus\ and the date in the log refers to March (so I assume this is the old log)

I am on Windows 7 x64bit

Here are my zipped settings:

http://spyro.mediashift.net/updates/ObjectDockPlus.zip

I'd like devs to focus on this bug

this is not happening in W7 32 bit OS but just in W7 64bit.

if we try to force an icon change we get the error message

'OD cannot access information about this window. it is likely that it has been ran as Administrator while OD has not'

all system icons are blurred.

there should be a fast workaround for this. I paid for OD2 but I'm using Nexus Dock that has not the issue.

to all developers, would you be so kind as to give us a fast (registry?) solution?

thank you in advance.

Someone else posted some great ideas at the link below. A few of them have already been mentioned; just thought I'd stick it in here.

https://forums.wincustomize.com/385066

That was actually very helpful. Since beta testing Windows 7, I have started to beta test a lot more, and I can appreciate the problems you have. This makes it a lot easier to understand why it is taking a while. The current ObjectDock beta is very good, and works pretty much flawlessly on Windows 7 x64 that I run. 

It is good to know, that all development isn't dead, and that you are giving feedback and replying to questions.