RocketDock 1.3

Punk Software - (Freeware)

Customize your desktop by making it original and practical at the same time with RocketDock.

RocketDock is an application that can customize the desktop, being a fully 3D animated toolbar (which makes icons grow to mouseover). It comes with many display themes, and is compatible with all virtually existing skins (Y'z Dock, mobydock and ObjectDock). Fully configurable, it allows you to keep at your fingertips shortcuts to your favorite programs, your job, your network favorites, documents, control panel, etc. RocketDock software changes the appearance of the desktop and makes it more convenient . But it also has an option to customize their own appearance.

The application offers great features such as the reduction of the windows in the dock (with reduced viewing videos in Windows Vista), the management of multi-screens or the ability to customize its appearance, the ability to watch videos in a smaller screen.

Title:: RocketDock 1.3
File Size:: 6.5 MB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 28 Jan 2007
Publisher:: Punk Software
Homepage:: http://www.punksoftware.com
MD5 Checksum:: 2DA5D6848AD0C07A9EBFA1FCB8B9AD5A

Changes since 1.2.5
- Added "Minimize windows to Dock" (with realtime previews under Vista with Desktop Composition enabled)
- Added ability to store all settings in "Settings.ini" (for portability)
- Added Icon Activation FX options
- Added Hover Effect option
- Added Icon Opacity option
- Added Zoom Opaque option (Fades Icon Opacity to 100% when zooming)
- Added Zoom "Plateau" mode (like "Bubble" only flat at the peak)
- Added the ability to set a negative Edget Offset (down to -15px)
- Added Popup on Mouseover Delay option
- Added Behavior Settings area
- Added ability to have multiple custom icon folders
- Added ability to browse executable files as "folders" for icon resources
- Added support for Vista icon resources
- Improved Icon Transitions
- Added "Running Task Indicators"
- Added "Open Existing Application Instance"
- Added a simple Clock Docklet
- Changed Recycle Bin Icons to have 2 states
- Added a hot key to toggle RocketDock visibility (CTRL+ALT+R)
- Fixed multi-monitor issue with RD forgetting your setting when connecting/disconnecting monitors (or using Remote Desktop).
- Fixed Icons adding to the end of the dock.
- Fixed many window layering issues (Icons and Labels)
- Fixed Vista UAC awareness issue
- Icons now maintain image size ratio
- Improved icon resource support
- Fixed Thread/Handle leak
- Fixed Icon Settings crashing in the System32 directory
- Fixed icons being reloaded when canceling the Dock Settings window
- Lock Icons now prevents you from dragging in new icons, but allows you to drag onto other icons.
- Fixed Docklets forgetting their icon image
- Fixed special shortcuts loading incorrectly (My Computer, iTunes, Office)
- Fixed Icon / Separator shifting glitch affecting "pixel-perfect" skins
- Changed Separator spacing to 1/2 that of a normal icon.
- Fixed random Icons not sliding (usually after pressing cancel in the Dock Settings window)
- Fixed AutoHide working while in Settings windows.
- Fixed crashing when right-clicking on the context menu. Right clicking is now functional as well.
- Fixed relative paths not executing properly.
- Ported hooks to C++ and merged into a single dll (RocketDock.dll)
- Added German and French documentation
- Optimized bubble algo and label rendering...
- Minor bug fixes that I can't remember :)