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Winstep Nexus dock and Nexus Ultimate v18.8 released!

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Winstep Nexus dock and Nexus Ultimate v18.8 released!

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Windows 10 Ready The Winstep Nexus dock is a free dock for Windows. Nexus has everything you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, skins, drag-and-drop support, plus many others exclusive to it such as live icon reflections, over 30 different mouse-over effects, in-dock system tray, built-in support for animated icons, full Windows 10 UWP app support, multi-monitor and high DPI support and much more. Completely customizable, with thousands of different backgrounds freely available online, Nexus is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus Ultimate is the commercial version of the free Nexus dock, adding support for multiple docks, categorized sub-docks, multiple tabbed docks (Shelves), Drawers (dock + single tabbed Shelf hybrid) plus even more widgets and cool looking mouseover effects.

Supported Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

Nexus and Nexus Ultimate run on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x and Windows 10.

100% Windows 10 compatible with full UWP (Universal) app support.

Over 30 amazing mouse over, attention, launch and delete effects!

Built-in battery, calendar, clock, cpu, email, moon, net, ram, recycler, wanda and weather modules/widgets.

Built in support for system tray icons plus running applications with live window preview thumbnails

Multiple built-in docklets such as a compact media player, alarm manager, sleep timer, language bar, cd control, GeoIP location, screen capture....

...and much, much more!

More Information:

Winstep Web Site:
http://www.winstep.net

More information about Nexus/Nexus Ultimate:
https://www.winstep.net/nexus.asp

 

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 49


Quoting Uvah,
reply 48

Yes but it should also be in Ultimate which Don says he has.



No. I just worked this issue out with Don, but for future reference only Winstep Xtreme features the free form desktop version of the modules. Nexus and Nexus Ultimate only support modules as icons on docks, etc...

Easiest way to know what does what before you buy is by referencing THIS PRODUCT COMPARISON PAGE.

Thanks a lot Jorge, and next time, I'll do my research better, I have to say, this will be a joy to skin. |-)  

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

WTG, Dan!!!

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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 52

WTG, Dan!!!

You go, Tom! :)

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you JcRabbit Winstep Nexus dock is a great work!!!5*  5*  5*  :thumbsup:  

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 53


Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 52

WTG, Dan!!!



You go, Tom! :)

Reminds me of Trading Places. Lol

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have another unreleased theme that Winstep commissioned from Vstyler some years ago, but it is still 100% in PSD format only.

Here is what I am going to try to do: instead of putting it together by editing the configuration files directly (or asking WebGizmos to help me with that) I am going to use this as an opportunity to keep developing the Winstep Theme Builder, so I can use that to put the theme together. Good opportunity to eat my own dog food and also motivate me to finish the damn thing.

Well, at least there's plenty of good will on my part... let's see if I can back that up with some action. Sigh. lol

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Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ross (Z71) and I are working as a team on the Office WB too. |-)  

Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting don5318, reply 57

Ross (Z71) and I are working as a team on the Office WB too. |-)  

Yay! All is well when it ends well. :)

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Reading this thread is a joy. It convinces me skinning is FAR from dead.  :thumbsup:  

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Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just a quick question. How do I get the browser icon to point to my default browser which is now Chrome again. I uninstalled Opera and rebooted but it doesn't open Chrome. Its still pointing at Opera.

Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 56

(or asking WebGizmos to help me with that)

You could send me the psd's and I could tinker with it (while you're tinkering with the builder)...can't promise but I can try. ;)  

Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 60

Just a quick question. How do I get the browser icon to point to my default browser which is now Chrome again. I uninstalled Opera and rebooted but it doesn't open Chrome. Its still pointing at Opera.

Easiest way I found is to locate (in this case Chrome) the icon in the All Programs list and then click and drag it to your dock. All the correct settings will be there. You can also change the icon to whatever you want.

Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Hankers, reply 62
You can also change the icon to whatever you want.

And here is a tip that will save anyone who still doesn't know about it a hell of a lot of time:

To change the icon of an item in the dock, you DO NOT need to follow the time consuming sequence of right click it, select Item Properties, Change Icon, etc, etc...

Just open the folder with your favorite icons in Explorer and drag the new PNG/ICO file directly over the item you want to change the icon to (it will start glowing) and DROP.

Provided the file you are dragging is an ICO, PNG or TIF image file, it will automatically replace the icon of the item in the dock you drop it into. This method is also perfect to quickly replace multiple icons in the dock (drag, drop, drag, drop, ..., done!).

Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I got the Chrome icon on the dock but its the icon that looks like a planet with satellites around it that I want to open Chrome with. Dropping the Chrome icon on it did make it glow but when I let go. It found it's own place.

Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ross, was it an icon file, or was it the Chrome exe file? It worked fine for me, but I used an icon, not an exe.

Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That might've been it. I'll get back to ya.

So this what i done. I removed the default icon for the browser, the blue planet and the satellites. I did use the Chrome exe. Dragged it from my start menu to the dock. That's why it didn't work. Went to my SD folder and the icons I saved. The one that's there now is a red planet that looks like all the satellites crashed and burned. I can live with that. :)  

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah, guess I should have written 'To change the icon of an existing item in the dock ... you drop an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file directly into it'.

If you drop an .exe it will simply add that application to the dock. And if you drop a document file (.txt, .doc, .jpg, etc...) into an existing item, it will try to open that document in the application you dropped the file into.

It's smart like that. :)

Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Don't you go gettin' all AI on us now. :borg:  

Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 68
Don't you go gettin' all AI on us now. :borg:  

LOL. :)

Quoting Uvah, reply 64
Dropping the Chrome icon on it did make it glow

Grrr... My bad. I failed to mention that it will glow rapidly to give a visual feedback that whatever you are dropping is *into* the item (e.g.; useful for what I mentioned above about launching applications with document files) but more slowly to let you know that it will customize the item when dropping those .ICO, .PNG and .TIF files.

Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 67

It's smart like that.

Why thanks, Jorge!  Oh, wait, you said IT.    :blush:  

Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a question......mark.

Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 71
I have a question......mark.

Yeah, and since you're not showing the contents of that item's Dock Entry Properties dialog in the screenshot, so do I.

Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My bad. I opened it up and clicked on change icon. Now its red again. I like the way it fades in.

Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ross, is the white background color in that Item Properties dialog right for the WB skin you're using? Or should it be some other color?

Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top

File explorer color in my dl folder.