Stretch background of dock

Can't you just drag the sides of the dock out to the required size ?
If you hover the mouse around the edges of the dock, you should see some resizing arrows appear. Just click and drag the dock to the required size on the x-axis.

No standard zoomer docks can't be resized, only tabbed docks can be.

Maybe just go on the folder open picture, and change what you want (but not the name or the format of the picture).
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yeah, your not going to get that without editing in photoshop. Of course, it'll get bigger with more icons...but you know that already.

what do you mean edit in photoshop? what do i edit?

You'll need to open the file that resides in your backgrounds folder for OD C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock\Backgrounds...find the dock you are using open the folder find the background bottom or whatever it's called. Then make it bigger lengthwise. If you don't do it right though, it's not going to look good. Just so I'm straight, you want it to be that long with only one program on it?

i see.

i will try that

what i want is to replace my start menu with object dock.
at first i wanted 1 dock on bottom, with my buttons on far left, middle is the opened windows, and right is the sys tray, just like in a normal start menu.

but it only left one dock hold EITHER a teaskbar, OR a systray, NOT both, so that didnt work..

thats y now i have 3 dock, one with start button+quick access button of myo wn
another is the opened windows, and the last is the systray

well it doesnt look good all split up......!!

What messiah1 is saying would in theory work, you would need to make the image longer and keep adjusting the content margins to make it fill the space you want, It may be tough to get the icon to display on the left of the dock as in your mock up. You would most likely end up with icon more centered. The other draw back would be that when you open a second app the dock will stretch to display icon between content margins. If you had it with one icon as your mock up, when a second icon added the dock will start to over lap the 2 outside docks.

If a tabbed dock with a single tab (taskbar tab), was edited to make the tabs completely transparent...... set the font to arial, 7 pts (or a blank font) ........ then adjust the tab size to .25x ........
That might work.

ok, so i tried all your suggestions, and they all are workarounds, but they have big disadvantages....so i guess i will have to have 3 separate tabs instaed of my start menu...i still like it more than the windows taskbar even though it is split up

although it objectdock would be 100 times better if it let you resize your docks to your liking, and align the icons to a specific side! that wud be the greatest thing that ever happened to OD

does anyone know if this is possible? (with one dock ... )


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e257/MaFi0z/isitpossible.jpg

(photoshoppped!)

Nope, because you can't have system tray and taskbar on the same standard dock.

how about, if it was 2 docks, pretend the system tray is on it own. the rest looks like in pic..possible?

In theory yes but remember the more running tasks you have going the bigger that dock gets as icons are added, it will overlap systray dock and at other end will go off screen, with 3 tasks running your start menu icon would most likely be off screen. To make the space you want you would need to use OutsideBorder code in .ini. icons are not placed in that area, so when icons added to dock they will not just be displayed in the empty space and not affect anything else, they will be placed by the, for running tasks, FF icon and stretch the dock so it/they fit between the border settings.