A GOOD NEWS!

Today I tested DesktopX 3.5 Pro on Windows 7 Ultimate x86 (Build 7127 RTM) during a few hours. It's works perfect! As well as DX and Sidebar gadgets. Moreover, it seems to me that it works here much more stably than on Vista! So I'm sure we will not have many problems after migration to Windows 7.

Long Live Stardock!

You didn't try ActiveX controls There are some new visibility problems when running gadgets.

But otherwise, it's pretty solid and everything seems to be working ok (or at least all my workarounds for Vista are still working).

And to me....!!!!

Zu, you da man!!! 

I know the web browser works in Win7 as im using it in a gadget.

YES!!!   Now I understood. You are absolutely right!

This is known issue. I just use these controls by totally different ways which excludes any bugs with hide/unhide ActiveX (or DX) objects. I solved this problem by using simple timer that works until all of the necessary objects become visible, "ontop" and "in the focus". Then the timer is stopping and runs the Main Script.

As well as I do not use the child/parent option for ActiveX controls.. Instead this I combine the necessary objects into one general group which should be moved (or be cloned) together. So I don't see these bugs around half of year.

But I'm agree that it would be great if Stardock will fix these bugs more professionally! 

I'd just like to add a couple of requests:

-It'd be nice if children objects would remain in their position and keep their rotation (both relative to their parent) after parent has been rotated

-It would also be great if a rotated object would keep itself anchored to a chosen point while resized (so creating rotated drawers would be easier and the final result better looking)

These two would enable quite a few interesting takes on user interface imo

I agree. Just had to do that on a DX theme, Excalibur DX, soon to be released. https://forums.wincustomize.com/345517/page/9

that may be the case, however it is still a bug that needs fixing, and not all of us are fluent in Vb or java enough to do everything vi scripts

Here, this should be helpful:

'///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Sub Object_OnStateChange(state)
    If state="Command executed" Then

    'preferences:

    selector_mode = 1
   
    'Selector will use different techniques to gather all objects that
    'you want to modify.
    '1: it will modify every object on your desktop (except for the ones with "<Unassigned>" name)
    '2: will modify objects you put in the modify_these
        modify_these="object1|object2|object3"

    '/preferences
        If selector_mode=1 Then
            For Each elem In DesktopX.Objects
                Call recolour(elem.name)
            Next
        ElseIf selector_mode=2 Then
            s=Split(modify_these&"|>>endcap<<","|")
            counter=-1
            Do
                counter=counter+1
                Call recolour(s(counter))
            Loop until s(counter+1)=">>endcap<<"
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Sub recolour(obj)
    enabled=True
    sharpness=10
    darkness=500
    x_offset=2
    y_offset=2
    color=RGB(100,200,150)
    'prefernces
    mode = 1
    '/preferences
    'MODE 1
        'will recolour only specified state
            'If chosen object doesn't have this state nothing happens
            state_to_modify="Mouse away"
       
        DesktopX.Object(obj).states(state_to_modify).SetShadow enabled,sharpness,darkness,x_offset,y_offset,color
    'MODE 2
        'will recolour object's current state
        x=DesktopX.Object(obj).state
        DesktopX.Object(obj).states(x).SetShadow enabled,sharpness,darkness,x_offset,y_offset,color
End Sub

'///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Stop doing bad things to the command line of single-exe gadgets and pass it properly to the extracted exe

The thing is that well myself as pretty much a noob in DX  yet just from looking at what has already been done have created a imo good multi functional widget, yet when i place it on WC it has to go in a specific catagory, there isn't a "all in one" catagory available.

Another thing is that there are very few DX skinners that feel their work is good enough to be able to make them into stand alone gadgets to be worth the extra $50 or so to do it, I would want to make my gadget stand alone, so that it could be stuck on usb and i could use it on any computer. My work is no where near proffesional enough to be sold so there is no point in me getting the pro edition for this perpose. Although if a portable version of DX was available then it would be ok to run just a widget as it would work on the copy of DX on the flash drive, would give dx skinners something to do on their lunch break as well