Icon Labels Missing

No Labels / Label Icons Won't Show Up

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I upgraded from an older version of Object Dock to 2.  Back when I had a 1.x version, I had the icon labels turned off (the text that shows when you hover over an icon).  When I ugpraded, they were still off.  I actually don't mind it so much, but some docklets give special information with the label, and I'd like the option to turn them back on.  Now if I change the font or bold / italics, size ... anything related to the labels in the settings, it does not work.  They don't show up.  I have also tried doing a repair on the install to no avail.

I think it probably remembered my setting from the previous version and is leaving them off.  I am sure I could do a complete uninstall (removing registry entries and settings), but I have my dock highly configured with icons that matter to me.  I would rather not resort to that. 

Ne ideas?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 First, reinstall 1.9. You can have both installed at once.

Close OD2.

 Launch OD1.9.

Change your setting.

Close OD1.9.

Relaunch OD2.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Go to USER Local\ Appdata\Stardock\Objectdock open settings.ini

Find line "Labelsdisabled=1" change it to =0

but whenever you like you can  toggle the icons labels directly in the OD settings UI
using  TransparentFont 

hope this helps ! ;)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I've noticed that the bug (from 1.9) about icon labels sometimes hiding behind other windows (and the dock background itself) still exists in 2.0.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you guys. 

I tried changing the .ini as Frankell suggested.  Unfortuantely, I had trouble finding the folder:

c:\documents and Settings\[user]\application Data\stardock\objectDock

... is actually an empty folder!  Maybe this is a leftover from when I had Object Dock 1.6?  Pretty misleading.

So I installed Object Dock 1.9 like Wizard1956 suggested.  Unfortunately, the result was it overwrote all my settings!  I had labels back, but all my settings in 1.9 and 2.0 were reverted to default (options, icons, background, docklets, everything).  Appaled, I proceeded to immediately uninstall 1.9.  But then I had a eureka moment!  On the uninstall options, it showed a list of files it wanted to delete including settings backups!  For example settings.old ...

And then I finally realized, from this, the real settings folder is:

C:\documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Stardock\ObjectDock

And it had .old files for all my old settings.  So I was able to restore them and fix the Labelsdisabled=1 problem and I installed  TransparentFont on WinCustomize for an elegant way to change labels on and off.

It got sticky for a few moments, but it's a happy ending!  Thank you guys!

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I love a story with a happy ending.

Don't forget to back up your dock settings when you get done. It isn't as easy as it was in OD1.9,  the new way is a step backwards, imho. 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm really glad you managed it  :grin:

just sorry for my late editing as quoting my answer to your kind comment in the TransparentFont page:

<< actually the ini file solution mentioned in the help file was not mine as it was a copy & paste from the WC forum,

sorry at that time I didn't tried the path, only today thanks to your post I decided to verify the path and I discovered it was wrong, so I edited my comment with the right one (but the 8 minutes delay were too much !)>>  ;)