Cant see icons when drag and drop Web Links to Tabbed Dock

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I have just got Object Dock. I have a main doc and a Tabbed Dock. When I drag and drop web shortcut links to the Links tab on the Tabbed Dock it looks empty. I thought it was for a while :-) until I hovered over and the link is there but no icon. I can right click and go to change this icon/settings but this is not very user friendly. At least a default icon should be shown. Is there no way to set/fix this?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I believe this was reported before and I have forwarded it to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi rednwhitez,

Thanks for pointing this out.  I've logged this internally to take a look.

Internal reference: ODNT-8144

Thanks again for the feedback.

Adam McGuinness
Stardock Customer Support Specialist

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Kenny_901, reply 3

Try refreshing the icon cache within Object Dock to see if that resolves the issue. You can usually find an option to refresh or rebuild the icon cache in the settings or preferences menu of Object Dock.

Is this something you've been able to do in the application itself, and can you explain to help find where this option exists? 

Unless I've missed something, I'm not seeing any setting or preference with Object Dock to refresh an icon cache...

To be clear, here is a video of the issue the as I understand the original poster here is trying to solve:
https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/2024-04-25_12-26-12amcguinness.mp4

Looking again, I can see there is one fix I've found you could try:

  1. Right-click the invisible browser shortcut icon in your Dock.
  2. Select "Change this icon / shortcut..."
  3. Click "Browse..."
  4. Paste or navigate to the path of the browser application of your link, then select that application. 

Now, your icon will have the appearance of the icon of that browser app.  Bit of an involved solution, but you can have link shortcuts without them being invisible anymore.  As an added bonus, the next time you need to change a browser shortcut icon- the file-path you just pasted in should be available after Step 2 above, where you can click "Change Icon" and selecting the newly available path.

I hope that helps.

Adam McGuinness
Stardock Customer Support Specialist