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Dynamic Menus and Docks

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I would recommend checking out Version 2...
Dynamic for Rainmeter 2

Dynamic ~ Alternate View dl.dropbox.com/u/73816385/Dyna…

Menus & Docks for Rainmeter

Latest Version 1.09.08.2013
by Eclectic Tech

DESCRIPTION
Dynamic Menus & Dock Icons
These are setup by middle-clicking the menu button or dock icon, selecting the folder or program from the dialog box; that's it! Menus are automatically named and the dock icons and tool-tips text are set and ready to use.

DETAILS
Dynamic configurable Menus (60 included, unlimited # possible)
  • Top, Left, or Right Sides, or Random Placements
  • Choice to activate by Hover or Click
  • 4 Dynamic menu lengths included (10, 15, 20, or 25 items)

Dynamic configurable Dock Launch Icons (24 included, unlimited # possible)
  • Small, Medium, or Large sizes
  • Horizontal, Vertical, or Random Placement
  • Dock Backgrounds optional

Scroll-selected Search/Run bar
  • Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Yandex, Amazon, EBay, and Command~Run
  • Expanded to 13 sites (see Update below) and Run

Scrolling News Feeds (16 Feeds possible)
  • Scroll Speed Control
  • Programmable feed change timer

I-Radio Media Player
  • 50+ internet radio stations included
  • Editable: Add/Remove stations in Playlist folder & Refresh
  • Scroll to select Now-Playing interface
  • Full or Mini(Taskbar height) interfaces

Notes (6 pages)

G-Mail (Unread and link)

Weather (Current, 3-day, and 5-day)

Recycle Bin ~ Size & File Count (Open or Empty actions)

Network graph

Multi-core graphs (up to 8 cores)

24/12 Hour clock (Scroll to select, show date on hover)

Taskbar and Sidebar Launchers for:
Notes, News Feeds, Weather, Skin Loader, Full Config

3 Configuration/Settings Options:
- Welcome skin to quickly Load/Unload, and set main options
- Full Config.exe of all variables
Or text edit of variables file

Five style included

All items can be independently positioned anywhere on the screen.

All skins can be hidden by Hover/Click (your choice) the top screen edge

Background for Taskbar, Sidebar, and menus will slowly alter appearance randomly

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UPDATES
9-8-2013 Rewrote news skin to use UniNews reader by Moshi! Google reader closed in July 2013
Minor code corrections and updated preview picture

6-9-2013
Added RainFocus.exe by ~FaradeyUA faradeyua.deviantart.com/ to improve menu action
Re-Enable Hover/Click choice for menu activation
Re-Enable Hover/Click choice for HideAll/ShowAll

6-06-2013
Added menu close when it loses focus
Minor code changes

6-3-2013
MAJOR CORRECTION to menu close operation
- Added MenuLocation and MenuName variables to include files to correctly close menus
Corrected background sizing for Layout menus
Change hide/show to work with middle/left mouse clicks (eliminated hover option [for now])

4-18-2013:
Corrected middle-click to update playlist in Radio
Cleaned playlist; removed inactive stations and extraneous links

4-2-2013:
5 Themes added (Blank, Dark, Light, Corners, Clear)
Expanded Search/Run to include 14 sites (Added: Bandi, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Volunia, Facebook, Twitter)
Hide/Show uses top edge of screen (eliminates Win8 hot corner conflict)
Now All Skins toggle on Hide/Show (Dock items are now toggled)
Added link to Full Configuration editor on Welcome~Settings page
Minor code corrections

3-25-2013:
Individual Menu Controls for List Size (10~25 items) and Close functions
Two Layouts included (Preview [above] & Top Bar only layout)

2-18-2013:
Added Right Sidebar Menus, Taskbar Menus, minor code corrections

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LICENSE & CREDITS

This software has been released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License (creativecommons.org/licenses/b….

Dynamic contains work by the following people:

Author Eclectic Tech (me, John Moran)

RainFocus.exe by ~FaradeyUA
FileView Plugin by Brian Ferguson
Simple Launcher by XANCI
RainFile by Kaelri
RainRGB by JS Morley
Scroller Plugin by RedK
Weather icons by vclouds vclouds.deviantart.com/
* UniNews Reader by Moshi (added 9/8/2013)

RainfileItemName &
RainFileMenu1Name ... Modified RainFile for Menus & Docks to write and return file or folder name

Preview Wallpaper: Blue Moon?? Don't remember
www.pickywallpapers.com/1280x1…

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Thanks to forum members for ideas...
Needs 3.0 beta
Probably forgot something...!

Enjoy!
© 2013 - 2024 Eclectic-Tech
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Tort14U's avatar

My fellow Pengie! I am continually amazed at what you do here. Stunning and very useful!