This all happens on the fly, so you can see the changes happen on your dock as you are making them. Using the ObjectDock Properties dialog you can define the appearance of each collection, you can add and remove collections and you can move them up and down or left to right, depending on the orientation of the dock.

Each Collection consists of a background image and tab and content. Tabbed docks are basically a bunch of individual docks called Collections. Also, once you have built your basic dock theme, you will find it easier to swap out backgrounds and icon images and to maintain than it is to add docklets and shortcuts to your favorite programs and folders everytime you load a new preconfigured theme. They are very easy to create and is the best way to get yourself familiar with the ObjectDock Properties dialog.

Preconfigured themes can be downloaded from the WinCustomize ObjectDock Library but you will find, based on your unique computing needs, that you will be much happier building your own dock themes. Themes define dock location, dock appearance (backgrounds and tabs) and dock content (docklets and shortcuts). The other type of dock and the one that this article will focus on is the tabbed dock.The tabbed dock is a new type of dock, only available in ObjectDock Plus, that allows you to essentially have multiple docks in one location through the use of tabs and it can hide itself, like a drawer, and take up very little desktop space.ĭock themes are preconfigured dock settings that may include multiple docks. This type of dock is the same dock that is found in the free version of ObjectDock and is similar to freeware docking program 'Yz Dock'. Non-tabbed docks, also called Zoomer docks, because you can set the images on the dock to react to your mouse by 'zooming' or increasing in size. There are two basic types of docks that you can use. The second part is the steps involved in building your first basic tabbed dock. The first part is mostly informational stuff to help familiarize you with docks themselves. Designed for your specific computing needs. This mini-tutorial was written to help you build a basic dock theme that you will be able to easily skin and maintain. This was originally written by me and published on and I am republishing it here for reference for folks that may not frequent that site.

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