MountainDragon

MountainDragon

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Reply to Follow Up Re: Widgets, Objects on desktop move slowly in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Check your task manager (Ctrl-alt-del) to see if your CPU is maxed or very high. Check the performance tab. If so, you can check the process list to see what is taking all the cycles. Click on the CPU column once, and then again to get the highest CPU level process on top. It's possible that something is chewing up resources at boot time, like a network connection that's marginal, and eventually it finishes. If that is the case then doing

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Reply to Weird widget start-up problem in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Are you running the objects as widgets (by executing them directly and setting the properties to run at startup), or as objects imported into the DesktopX runtime (by importing them from the DesktopX menu)? What other programs are starting when you boot? I know I've had problems sometimes with my av software not starting correctly when DesktopX or ObjectDock were set to auto-start. Have you tried leaving the widgets off until boo

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Reply to Buffer Overrun in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

yrac: Could be some other install might have overwritten some MFC or other dll? Walter: What other software have you installed or updated recently? How about malware? Done a sweep lately? What version of DesktopX are you running?

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User Level? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Question: If someone has a User Level of "Visitor (2)", does that mean they have not purchased Stardock software? Note: I'm not referring to Access Class.

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Reply to WinCustomize: What happens next in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Hmm, I did as directed, and post #109 didn't say anything about my question, perhaps you mis-typed the number? He meant 209. What is so hard to understand about getting everything that's included in Object Desktop for one price, and NOT getting what's not included. If it's not wo

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Reply to WindowBlinds 5 BETA 2 available in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I've recently run across a problem that happens with Access 2003, and only some WB skins. The problem is that button clicks on the close, max/restore, and minimize buttons on the title bar don't work. The skins I've found that have this issue are: Arrow, Longhorn 5203, Noire, Rusty Rooster, and Vista XP. There may be others as I've only tested some, but many do work, like 5imple Alpha, Stealth OS, Thunderstorm, and Aur

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Reply to SDC Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

There's nothing to drag. I would expect an option to bring it back to be on the View menu, but it's not. I know that I can use the restore link in the SDC folder to get the previous version back and that might undo the problem, but I'm reporting it here so it can be addressed. It looks like a new feature that needs a little tweak to the implementation.

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SDC Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

In the latest Stardock Central release (2.19[b].140 build 98) I've run into a problem. I was looking at the forums, and I clicked the border of the column that holds the sections icons (Object Desktop, WinCustomize, etc) after the mouse over offered to close it to make more space. That worked, but now there seems to be no way to get the column back, and after exiting the program and coming back I'm stuck at the News section.

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Reply to help!!! in New Users WinCustomize Forums

It's possible that DesktopX was set to hide the taskbar, and if it didn't exit properly your taskbar could be left hidden. If you're using Windows XP, the easiest way out in that case is to press ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the Task Manager, select Log Off from the Shut Down menu, and then log back on. Your taskbar should come back.

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Reply to Silica RSS questions, suggestions, and help in Widget Ideas WinCustomize Forums

Despite how nicely laid out your post is, Stardock unfortunately does not support anything user created. You might want to contact the author and submit this information to them. I think he's got you there, Mike. It is a widget that's distributed with DesktopX. <img src="http://images.stardock.com

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Reply to Accessing activeX control from other layer in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

If you're trying to access a method or property of the ActiveX control, then use: DesktopX.ScriptObject("myUsedActiveX").Control.Dosomething(cmd) If you're trying to use a sub or function in the script, then it's: DesktopX.ScriptObject("myUsedActiveX").Dosomething(cmd) To make sure the object is there use: If DesktopX.IsObject("myUsedActiveX") Then End If You could proba

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Reply to WinCustomize Subscription Totals Won't Make The Goal: What Next? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think the model of a public library is close to the situation here (as I've said elsewhere). The community must pay for the library (through taxes, bonds, etc) and then communitiy members have free access to the contents. You must be a community member to get a library card (subscription) and then you may check out books (download skins). You do not own the books (skins) but you have the use of them. Non-community members ma

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Reply to DX Requests in DesktopX Wishlist WinCustomize Forums

The Changelog got a different description than the docs. The docs says you can get and set .FontBold etc, but it's get only. Only way to set the font properties is by using SetFont. Yes, but the FontSize property doesn't return a proper size value, so it's problematic if you want to change a

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Reply to DX Requests in DesktopX Wishlist WinCustomize Forums

As near as I can tell, the script accessible font functions are broken. This has just moved to the top of my wish list: Please make the font functions work as advertised.

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Reply to Fonts / Colors / Bold / Italic in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

After trying to use them myself, it appears that the font properties for script access do not work properly. For instance, the Object.FontName property seems to be read-only, despite what the docs say, and the Object.FontSize property returns False, which if applied to a font, makes it really small!

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Reply to Fonts / Colors / Bold / Italic in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

The good news: You can change the font characteristics for DX text objects, either in the properties dialog or by script. The bad news: AFAIK, it only applies to the entire object. If you want different portions of your string to have different font options, I think you will need to use multiple objects, and just position them to achieve the effect you want. DX documentation: <a href="https://www.stardock.

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Reply to Widget Help in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

The only helpful advice I can give you is to look at the currently available DesktopX widgets. Find one that does things similar to what you want to do, import it into DesktopX Builder, and see how it does it. Like this one, for instance: <a href="http://tiggz.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin

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