Scripts, tutorials, and general Desktop X help
Published on May 2, 2009 By sViz In Sneak Previews

 

Experimenting with this one. Trying my hand at a bunch of new functions. Desktop icons arrange in the petri dishes at the bottom. It scrolls on hover. I'm hoping to have several custom file icons. 

The large molecule in the middle is the wall. I centered it on a 2560x2048 canvas so it's rez independent. That allows me to position the black icons on top of them in DX. The smaller red orb moves in a circular perspective effect. At the very least, I expect to make a few more templates from this theme.

 

***  UPDATE 6/16/09: BETA 1.3 DOWNLOAD LINK  ***


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on Jun 06, 2009

When you create a new menu, it will be blank, save for the My Computer shortcut. To restore the previous menu click on the menu options icon and choose it from the list.

figured that out, but when I went back to the default it was still messed up

 

let me clean up my desktop....

on Jun 06, 2009

okay

now the bar has more than 2 items

on Jun 06, 2009

if I make a new bar and drop short cuts on it I get a scripting error

 

Object required: 'DesktopX.object(...)'
Line: 381
Code:
(not available)

 

same one each time

 

and the shortcut didn't run - possibly because what a dragged down was a shortcut that had been on my desktop which I dragged into a folder - switched back to the default desktop bar - opened that folder checked the shortcut to make sure it did work, copied the link out of properties to check against the link on my created bar...

switched back to the new bar and it's blank again except for 'my computer'

 

 

on Jun 06, 2009

for some reason, while it's running it seems to cause FF to hang when minimizing unless I right click on the taskbar to do so

on Jun 06, 2009

but i still like it...

on Jun 06, 2009

as in:



.exe

.jpg

.png

.msi

No, I meant in the actual name, e.g. This.is.my.file.exe

and the shortcut didn't run - possibly because what a dragged down was a shortcut that had been on my desktop which I dragged into a folder - switched back to the default desktop bar - opened that folder checked the shortcut to make sure it did work, copied the link out of properties to check against the link on my created bar...

Yeah, that is a problem, moving the files after a shortcut's been created. I'll have to work on several contingencies. Perhaps a warning that the path no longer exists and option to change the target.

Thanks for your input so far. I'll try to have modified version up by tomorrow.

on Jun 06, 2009

for some reason, while it's running it seems to cause FF to hang when minimizing unless I right click on the taskbar to do so

The only thing using internet is the weather. I don't have FF, so I'm not sure what the cause is.

on Jun 07, 2009

c

so I'm not sure what the cause is.

 

could be my semi old system...

on Jun 07, 2009

No, I meant in the actual name, e.g. This.is.my.file.exe

 

i did have some downloaded .exe's with version numbers like 1.2.6 and a zip with a url in the name

 

on Jun 07, 2009

Looks, and works fine for me!

I like the satellit ball..

 

on Jun 07, 2009

bilbo

 

click the little molecule to the left of 'desktop' and create a new bar

drag some some on onto it

switch back and forth and see if the new bar still holds up...

on Jun 07, 2009

Bichur
bilbo

 

click the little molecule to the left of 'desktop' and create a new bar

drag some some on onto it

switch back and forth and see if the new bar still holds up...

 

yeah it works till  I'm trying rename the new bar.. then dx crashes.. on builder mode too..

on Jun 07, 2009

I could name it, go to it, drag stuff to it, but when I went back to desktop then back to the bar, then name is still there but the bar was empty,  I'll look some more tomorrow... might need to clear my cache and start it over

on Jun 07, 2009

 

yeah it works till I'm trying rename the new bar.. then dx crashes.. on builder mode too

I'm seeing some odd bugs there, too. I'll try to iron it out by tomorrow.

I could name it, go to it, drag stuff to it, but when I went back to desktop then back to the bar, then name is still there but the bar was empty, I'll look some more tomorrow... might need to clear my cache and start it over

If all else fails, go to the DesktopX folder and delete the Microbe_inifile.txt  text file. Then restart the theme. Sometimes the formatting gets screwed up and the theme can't read the file.

on Jun 07, 2009

Okay, updated version.

BETA 1.1 DOWNLOAD LINK

Updates:

- Fixes to recognize files with (.) in their base names
- Fixes to delete items that have been moved or otherwise gone missing.
- Fixes to rename menu
- Fixes to facilitate drag and drop files with identical names
- Added menu refresh button (click on the menu name text object to refresh)

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