are you giving your startmenu a unique name? give every dock a unique name and you should see it in the list. make sure they are DOCKS, not buttons. buttons trigger things, do certain actions, etc.
KTurbo, why dont you make the alternative icon and share it with everyone? i am too lazy.
this is what i do,
create a button on the taskbar ( windows menu )
make a dock at the desktop ( startmenu )
go back to button
set action: to toggle dock
control: ( can't set controls aint no docks in the list.. to select
That should work, are they on the same page? (I just have to ask. :P) Does the dock have a name? (I know it does, but I just have to ask. :P)
The bottom dock should be selectable too. :rolling: So...
Other than that I can think of something that could be wrong.
Edit: @[AFX] heh, I wish I could. But I don't have any graphics programs installed. ^^ The problem for me would be to make an exact replica of the start button as I'm not good at pixel graphics and doesn't have anything to refer too, I don't have vista. We'll see.
Last edited by KTurbo; 02-25-07 at 03:39 AM.
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yes I follow the steps persicely ( sorry my english is not too good ) but I just can't choose which dock to toggle :(
no solutions ?
I guess not. But actually, the same thing happen to me when I switched theme, and back to Vista, but it did go back after a softreset. So I guess if you start a new theme and try if it works!
Hello!! Congratulation AFX, i like very much your tutorial, great work!! This is my first post in this great community, because i don't speak english I have a small question, how to create a folder shortcut with wad??
Thanks!!
Sorry, a little error on mi question, jejeje i change "when" for "how"... a little correction jejeje
Thanks for welcome aximgenius!
Hello!! Congratulation AFX, i like very much your tutorial, great work!! This is my first post in this great community, because i don't speak english I have a small question, when to create a folder shortcut with wad??
Thanks!!
Welcome to Aximsite! And if you don't speak English very well, don't worry, a lot of people here don't pay much attention to grammar anyway.
wad doesnt have a slideshow feature, but then there is mortscript. if you could somehow use mortscript to start a sideshow in a specified foder, then that works just as welll.
When doing the My Documents/Pictures/etc links, we use text controls. Here is an example of adding My Documents:
Tap and hold on the Start menu dock
Go to New > Text
For Object Type select Custom Text
For Text to Display, fill in something. I used Documents.
For Tap Action, fill in \My Documents or whatever folder represents your documents directory.
Press OK when you are finished. Font is option once again.
Repeat this process for each item, filling in the Object Type, Text to Display, and Tap Action respectivley.
Once we have filled in our Start menu, we can move onto something else. Let's go ahead and start our Sidebar dock. We are going to make this dock toggle on or off as well, so if we don't want it, we can hide it easily. This will in the end, be controlled by a button.
Tap and hold somewhere on the desktop.
Select New > Dock.
Select the box representing the Background image
Browse to the directory where we installed the Windows Vista WAD files and open the Sidebar folder
Make sure this dock will be docked to the right edge of the screen
We will give this dock the name "side".
Uncheck "Hide this dock after executing a subitem"
Checking or unchecking "Visable by default" is optional.
Press OK. We now have our Sidebar dock ready to be filled up.
Currently, the sidebar is overlapping our taskbar. We need this to sit behind the taskbar. Tap and hold on the Sidebar dock and select Send to Back. Now the sidebar is behind the taskbar.
What do you want to add to your Sidebar? You can pretty much add anything you want to this. For example, the Day of the week, an analog clock, some meters, maybe some shortcuts to some programs, some information about upcoming appointments/tasks, e-mail...the list goes on. I guess we can start with the day of the week, which is very simple.
There are many different customer text "identifiers" in WAD that you can use. Here is a list of identifiers that you can use. This list is quoted from duckies' post on the Lakeridge Software forums with additions from myself:
%T12% - Displays 12 hour time
%T24% - Displays 24 hour time
%DOW% - Displays the Day of the week
%MN% - Displays the Numeric month
%ML% - Displays the Long month
%MS% - Displays the Short month
%Year% - Displays current year
%Batt% - Displays the current battery percentage
%FM% - Displays Free RAM
%MTT% - Displays Total RAM
%Appt% - Displays Appointment Count
%Tsk% - Displays Task Count
%Day% - Displays the current day of the month
%Page% - Displays the name of the active page
%Week% - Displays the current week of the year (using ISO calculations)
%Free:(path_% - Displays the current free space on the specified card
%Total:(path)% - Displays the total space on the specified card
%Perc:(path)% - Displays the percentage of free space on the specified card
%Used:(path)% - Displays the amount of storage used on the specified card.
%GMT12:(offset)% - Displays the time offset from GMT in 12-hour format.
%GMT24:(offset)% - Displays the time offset from GMT in 24-hour format.
%Unread:(account)% - Displays the ammount of unread emails in specified email account.
%MissedCalls% - Displays how many missed calls you have.
On SOME OF the above variables, (path) should be replaced with the path to your storage card (i.e. \ or \SD Card).
First I thank you for your great tutorial, my Cingular 8525 screen looks a lot better now. I tried to make a link for My Documents and failed. I followed exactly what you said but when I click the link it gave me this error message: "The file "cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might need to reinstall or restore this file." Do you have any idea to fix this problem. I tried to change to location to be like this \My Device\My Documents but it still didn't work. please help me out
And how do you create a Separator Line between you Internet Explore and Outlook?
Thank you very much in advantage
Great theme, haven't have the guts to try it yet, since I got mine just the way I want it, but I really like the looks of this.
Questions, is it possible to automate all this stuff in a single cab file, if someone is willing to do this? sorry, I've never used WA2 and WAD before. what's the difference between the two? Also, after changing the start menu to to bottom, does that mean from then on, every program that I install, I have to manually create the link in the start menu?
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