Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha Preview 8.2 is Released (October 13th, 2008)
Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 8 Kiosk Version is Released (September 16th, 2008)
Download Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 8.2 With Updated Language Files & New "Planet" Icons
Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 9 is postponed until further notice.
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| Examples of the new backgrounds included in Alpha 8. Thanks to all the artists!. |
What Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 8 Allows You to Do:
- Launch your programs from a circular dock.
- Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can resize.
- Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
- Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)
- The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey (default is F1) or your middle mouse button.
- Tested on computers with multiple monitors, Windows XP/Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only .Net Framework 2.0.
- Automatically works on all Windows Vista computers and most Windows XP computers.
- A new settings panel that allows you to customize many options. It updates your dock as you make changes. See it change in real time! No need to press an OK button.
- Multi-language capable. Just translate the English.ini file to the language of your choice.
- Change the image used for the dock icons with the easiest method out there: Just set the program to "Icon Replacement Mode" in the right-click menu of the centre icon and you can change all the icon images by just dragging and dropping new PNG images onto them! Huge time saver when you are customizing your dock!
- You can now toggle the visibility of the dock by moving your mouse to any edge of your screen. By default, the left and right edges are used for toggling. No need to press a button!
- Rotate the dock with your mouse wheel or arrow keys (customizable).
- Click sensitivity adjustment for tablet users.
- Reorder the dock items by draging and dropping them over each other.
- Organize the dock items using dock folders.
- By default, clicking on the centre button does not open the start menu. You can enable this in the settings panel.
- Uses the default high resolution icons in Windows Vista.
- New easy method of upgrading from older versions.
- New Kiosk Version of the Circle Dock exe file.
- Many bug fixes and some new features have been added for Alpha 8. See the Change Log
- Added the ability to run multiple docks at the same time by allowing multiple Circle Dock instances to run from separate folders.
- Has the ability to run from a USB key on computers with the .Net Framework 2.0 or above.
- Includes French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Indonesian, Serbian, Croatian, Chinese, Spanish, German, and Danish language files. (Note: Alpha 8.2 is released and now has an up to date language file for each of the languages.)
- More animation and smoother performance are being looked at for Alpha 9.
- Ability to run docklets, live synchronization of the dock icons, and more will be added later on.
- Please provide feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and code contributions at the official Circle Dock Support Forum: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?board=240.0
Upgrade Instructions for Previous Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 7 Users:
Note that there are new upgrade instructions for Alpha 8. Please see the How to Upgrade page for the simple instructions on how to import your current settings into Alpha 8.
++Kiosk Version Notes
- This is an executable that operates in read only mode and has all of it's menus disabled. It is meant for use on public computers where you do not want changes made to the dock and you want to lock down the system files.
- The Kiosk Version requires that you change the dock settings and items using the regular version of Circle Dock and then replace the regular Circle Dock exe file with the Kiosk Version executable.
Licence
Circle Dock is Copyright 2008 Eric Wong. It is open source under a GNU General Public License V3. Feel free to modify the code. If you make an improvement, I would appreciate it if you send a copy of the code to me.
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Circle Dock 0.9.1 (Original Version (July, 2008))
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What Circle Dock Allows You to Do:
- Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular or spiral dock.
- Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
- Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)
- Ability to run the program from a portable USB memory stick and have the links in the dock point to the documents on the USB memory stick.
- Ability to synchronize the links on the dock with the files, folders, and shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in real-time.
- The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey.
- Works on computers with multiple monitors.
The Idea Behind Circle Dock
The idea behind Circle Dock is that the dock should appear where your mouse is instead of you having to move your mouse to the dock like with other programs. This is accomplished by making the dock a circular or spiral shape so that it can be placed anywhere, even near the edge of the screen. The offscreen portions of the dock are easily reached by just scrolling with your mouse wheel or arrow keys.
A user defined hotkey combination is used to make the dock appear and disappear. By default, this combination is CTRL-WINDOWS KEY. You can change it in the settings area of the program.
If you have a mouse with extra buttons or you want to make one of your mouse buttons activate the dock, I recommend you use the program from http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm and use it to remap your mouse buttons. This makes it very convenient to toggle Circle Dock.
The current version of Circle Dock is 0.9. It is not feature complete when compared to the full fledged docks out there, such as Rocket Dock and Object Dock, but this program was coded in under 2 weeks for a programming competition at http://www.donationcoder.com so there was not enough time to investigate every standard dock feature and code it. As the program develops, more standard dock features will be added.
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