RightClick Skins Not To Miss

I'd like to use rightclick...aa attractive appearing work saver is always a plus....after downloading the desired skin, how do you apply it? How do you switch skins in this application. fairyy's Vienna looks really nice, by the way.

Dr J0622, below is a link to the WinCustomize Wiki page for Right Click. Hope it helps.  

WWW Link

I have no idea how to use right click so I never use it.

Are there any advantageous using right click verses objectdock plus which I can't live without? Or can they be used together to make my life more resourceful?

I use them together.
I occasionally go without OD+ just to see my taskbar on a new skin. I don't like it but I can deal with it. If for some reason I lost RightClick I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. It's my "CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT" program.

WINSTEP RULES

I have a problem, sometime after installing Right Click and a handful of skins, all the skins are now unpacked to the skins folder instead of making a separate folder for each skin (inside the skins folder).
Any thoughts on what went wrong?

Lantec I see we feel the same way only on opposite ends of the spectrum. Maybe I'll try out RightClick just to check it out.

I use Object Dock Plus, and have for a long time and have used Right Click off and on since it's release. I tend to go with applications that don't crash on a regular basis as RC does, at least on my systems, but ODP has been rock solid on both my XP and Vista 64 systems. Not sure I see the advantage of running both but if it would be stable, I can see how RC would have a very small advantage over ODP but only in the convenience category IMO.

Right Click is the only thing which makes Vista tollerable. You can actually have a proper fly-out programs list instead of using that crappy Vista start menu.

If you set up RC properly you barely need your start menu or all programs menus.
Or you can just add your most used items to it. Im like Lantec - I could not live without the program at this point , its how I get around my computer - Id be lost .



Are you talking about skins you downloaded from the RightClick gallery ?
All the skins are zipped and you just unzip them to the RightClick skin folder. Once there each skin should automatically make its own folder and you will find the skins in the RightClick Menu Editor (Click on skins tab )

Are you saying that when you unzip the RC skin to RC skin folder your just getting a bunch of scattered files without a folder ? Can you be specific on which skins your referring to.

Essentially, using both would be equivalent to a typical LiteSTEP shell theme  [alternative shell to Explorer]...and that's probably the most 'enduring' of alternate shells out there....much of which was/is due to its 'right-click' functionality ...

Without a doubt RC is the most useful of all Stardocks applications. If I were to try setting up OD with everything I have on my RC menu my screen would be covered with docks and icons and I still wouldnt have half of it.

Everything is just a rightclick away and no screen real estate is taken up. Now if the developers could just get RC to support png's everything would be perfect.

It depends on how the author packaged them...if they selected all the files inside the folder and zipped them or if they selected the folder with the files in it and zipped the folder. The former will get you no folder, the latter will get you the folder with files contained inside. That's been my experience anyhow.

Thats why I asked him for more info - I've never come across a RC skin that didn't have a folder. I've downloaded many Rainlendars that did exactly what he said - you need to make your own folder with appropriate name then unzip to the folder you made or you end up with a bunch of loose files - so he can always make a folder in RightClick skins folder before unzipping.
Unless he is having an isolated problem.

Having tried RightClick a few years ago I hadn't given it a second thought until recently. Seeing a resurgence of Skins for it I decided to try it again. Now with both Object Dock + & RightClick I have reduced the # of docks. I now cannot live without either of these programs. The best information that I received in making RC much more usable was the included Readme by both Fairyy~ & buzz58 in their RC skins.

If your menus aren't displaying correctly.

Just add more text to one line on a sub menu.
If you have 'wb config' and the menu isn't stretching out far enough, just change that one item to 'Windowsblind Config'
Just a few extra letter on one entry will stretch the sub menu out wider. You can do same on the main menu.
You can also add a clock or date at top and select
' spell out full date' as an option when you config the clock. This will make the difference between a narrow menu and a much wider one.

It's My Secret

Me too, and I think it's just the way it was packaged.

Zubaz still likes ObjectBar more . . but RC is sweet.

One thing I would like to bring up about RightClick .

I have noticed since the initial update of RC in September that was for the most part just to make RightClick Vista compatible that the downloads on all RightClick skins have dropped off by 75%. A RC skin associated with a windowblind would usually have a high download count. Now , most RC skins average around 200 or less since the middle of september.

The only 'probable' reason that I can see is that after the update if you did not leave RightClick program RUNNING during update - you lost your entire menu configuration.

A decent RightClick menu can take hours to set up in you add everything to it.

I suspect that is the reason for the lower downloads in RC gallery - too many may have lost their menus and just didn't bother to redo them again.

It would be a huge plus to the RightClick program if the next update included a " Save configuration " to avoid this issue.
Also - PNG support instead of BMP's and magic pink would be a huge added bonus and making skinning RC even more fun to skin.

The very least would be perhaps a little note in Stardock Central saying " Please leave RightClick running during update " to avoid this loss of configuration.

And here I thought no one ever read those "Read me " texts

YES, YES, YES, I've been wishing this since I started doing them myself (not that long) but I've wondered why this doesn't support PNG. Not saying there aren't some great ones out here (buzz's Glass comes to mind) but it really limits the design with bmp/magicpink. Can someone in StarDock explain why it doesn't support png for me? Just wondering.

It would nice if we could just get a yes or no or " were looking into it " but its been brought up on several threads over a couple of years. If its not a possibility could someone just tell us. RC really could use PNG support as well as the Save configuration.
With PNGS you could get smooth corners and transparent menus.

Buzzh58 manages to achieve these effects by some creative graphics work but he spends a lot of time making a RightClick menu and adjusting the ini pad margins and settings.
Thank God he has taught me a lot..