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Winstep Nexus Dock v11.6 FREE released

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Winstep Nexus Dock v11.6 FREE released

Now with built-in support for animated icons!

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Might be old news for some (it was released last week), but I wanted to make sure everything was ok before posting the news. :)

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Winstep has released Nexus v11.6. The new release features built-in support for animated icons (just drag & drop, no need for 3rd party docklets), eighteen different dock mouse over effects that can be combined with the Magnify effect, and MUCH MORE! Read the full change log HERE.

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The Winstep Nexus dock is a FREE dock for Windows. Every feature you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and others not available in most other docks, such as live icon reflections, in-dock system tray, Win7 'superbar' abilities for running applications, automatic blur-behind (Vista/7) of semi-transparent dock backgrounds, and much more. Completely customizable, Nexus has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 and currently supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 2of3, reply 17
I hate editing ini files so a theme builder app would be excellent!
I'm patiently (not really) waiting for the builder. Since each Xtreme theme has about 10 ini files to edit, doing it by editing them is not a simple thing.

As soon as you bring out a beta of the builder, JC, I'm gonna be all over it! :grin:

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'll do an open beta on it as soon as I have something 'edible'. :)

Don't build up your expectations too much, though, my idea is to start (and perhaps end) with something simple: Categories with GUI settings, but with previews being done by the applications themselves (e.g.; you change the settings on the builder, click the Preview button and the builder sends a command to the running Winstep Applications which in turn show the results).

Perhaps implement some kind of drag & drop for images too so you don't have to remember image names (e.g.; wsfullbody.png) which are fixed in Winstep, but I'm still not quite sure what is the best way to implement something like that.

Anything beats editing configuration files by hand, though. :)

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What I would really like to see is being able to let subdocks have definable multiple rows. That way stacks would be sort of obsolete. Nevertheless, the subdock function is great. :-)

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

But then it wouldn't be a 'dock', it would be more like a Shelf. :)

Anyway, don't worry, this will all fit together very nicely once I finish adding the most important things on my to-do list.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One thing I really like in Objectdock is the "Flyout Menu" option. Comes in handy when assigning sub-folders. The sub-dock option in Nexus is sorta like it, but.. aw, I'm just spoilt.

On the plus side, Nexus has so many cool features missing in Objectdock.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Eye-candy also matters, eh? Winstep focus was always on adding functionality first then eye-candy... Kind of lost sight of the eye-candy part for a while, though, but, with a ton of functionality already there, the last couple of years have been very much focused on adding eye candy too...

No other dock for Windows has the kind of mouse over (and other) effects Nexus currently features, for instance, and Nexus was the first to add real time icon reflections. Lots more eye-candy related stuff on the pipeline too (for instance, a lot can be done with the way sub-docks open). :)

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Drool!