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DesktopX 3 is geeting to be one of the most annoying programs I use.

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DesktopX 3 is geeting to be one of the most annoying programs I use.

Aaargh! Why do builder and client have to be this way!

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I've just started to use DX 3 alot now and am noticing how annoying switctching inbetween Builder and Client are. First, I have to bring up DX3's Welcome to switch to builder from client just to save the theme with an object removed. I should be able to save in Client. Next, all of the Load options should be on the systray icon's menu like it used to be in 2.x. Oh, and did I metion that I need to unload all of DX just to get into Client from Builder? There should be a switching option on the systray context menu also.

I hope Stardock thinks about these and the ease of use of their program.

Oh, and I found a bug: Sometimes in the object's properties box where the image is upposed to be theere is just a down arrow in a box. I noticed this on the banners on SDC once also.
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Widgets already remember their position, Meowy. Automatically.


My widgets have always remembered their position...the only time I have a problem is if I close a widget and I'm on a different resolusion...I've had widgets " lost " because they went below taskbar. But thanks to buzzh58 for figuring out a solution to this lost widget problem ...I no longer have to delete them.
The easiest solution is to push widgets to the approximate center of your usual resolusion before you close them...then you won't need to find the X and Y distance and change the numbers.
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My widgets have always remembered their position...the only time I have a problem is if I close a widget and I'm on a different resolusion...I've had widgets " lost " because they went below taskbar. But thanks to buzzh58 for figuring out a solution to this lost widget problem ...I no longer have to delete them.
The easiest solution is to push widgets to the approximate center of your usual resolusion before you close them...then you won't need to find the X and Y distance and change the numbers.


That sounds like a bug to me. They should be able to account for smaller resolutions.

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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That sounds like a bug to me. They should be able to account for smaller resolutions.


Not sure i'd call it a bug..but I agree there should be an easier fix for this. But I dont think it affects many..basically people that jump from 800x600 to 1280x1024 then back again...Most people don't jump back and forth...not sure many even use 800x600 these days. I'm just glad I know how to fix it now. I can recall similar problems a few years ago when I didn't even have Windowblinds. Just changing the Themes that came with Windows sometimes caused an icon or 2 to go beyond the viewable side of the screen.
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
not sure many even use 800x600 these days.


I do. And probably always will.
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks Stardock for the new DX update!!! It's awesome, just what I needed.....

.....Except it crashes whenever I attempt to switch to Builder from the system tray menu.
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Heh, I usually load DX in builder mode. Dl'd Tronnix, set all the shortcuts up, switched to client mode and had to reset all the shortcuts again, except this time the 'set target' option isn't available on the irc object.
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't have DX3, but honeslty I can see why you have to switch of the client in order to go to the builder mode.

The client is what it is; the client. It probably runs differently and in such a fashion that a person who would only load widgets and themes would not need certain and specific DX function on their computer.

So when you switch toe biulder, not you are asking to run stuff the client was not ment to run.

Personally, I don't see that as a bug if you have to turn off the client in order to open up the builder. If your always going to be building, set that as the default.

Ad for widget positions, i can' say. I thought I had a problem with widget positions, but then I realized I had DX running and the widgets were not actually widgets BUT objects. If I save the set up as a THEME then it comes back the way it originally was.


In other word, place all the objects where you want them, and save it as a theme. DONE.


As for just loading widgets (without DX running), as I wrote before, I don't have DX3 (currently have DX2.4 and I love it!!!), but I have o hard tme with the widgets remembering where they last were.
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Personally, I don't see that as a bug if you have to turn off the client in order to open up the builder. If your always going to be building, set that as the default.


Well, now in 3.09 beta it crashes changing via the systray menu, and from the DX welcome.
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmm I just tried the systray 'switch to builder mode'. DX client quit, but builder never showed up at all. There are no crash logs or anything else of that nature. Verrrry interesting.

So I loaded builder, fixed all the references and shortcuts and tried the systray 'switch to client mode' and the same nothing happened.
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
nothing happened.


Then why smile?

Try switching from the DX welcome screen werewolf. The same thing happens from the systray icon. Now its even more difficult, because i have to press 3 buttons.
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks very much to the guys at Stardock who released a version of it with a working switcher.