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Good Morning there

Installed the 1.51 version and all looks good. Keeps position better, seems stable but still have lock ups though. A remark is that very often when you click an icon app to open it, it takes like 4-5 seconds to respond. It is like it hasn’t registered the click and you might click again trying to open it and then you end up with 2 apps opening. Also sometimes you click an icon to open, nothing happens and then when you hover with the mouse on the dock ready to click again it opens the app your mouse hovers upon (without having clicked it) and not the one you clicked earlier. If you wait 1-2 seconds above the icon you want to press and then click it, it seems that it opens it fine all the time.

That is so far

80801 year ago

I do not experience this, respond is immediate no delay at all, hmmm I'll check anyway

npagonis731 year ago

Thanks a lot for all your effort. Congratulations on the Dock app and the 32SE Distros you make!!

80801 year ago

thanks, I'm to block double click on next version that causes all kind of strange behavior and some other fixes as well and thanks for the input ;)

npagonis731 year ago

Testing a bit the new version of 32SE I noticed that the QDock used there is a lot more responsive than the 1.51 version tried this morning. I noticed it is a different version of QDock used in 32SE. Just as an observation of the issue I was telling you about in the morning.

npagonis731 year ago

Hello again

Just tried the 1.53 version of QDock. The Drop on icon feature doesn't work and the responsiveness of the dock has gotten a lot worse and it is almost unsuable. Clicks don't register at all or when they do, the app opens a lot later. Same app mix ups like before where you click one app, it doesn't open and then another app opens (without clicking) depending on where your mouse is.

80801 year ago

Thanks for the input!

npagonis731 year ago (5 edits)

Hello again. Hope you are well. I have been trying the new QDock version 1.63. I can confirm that it is again usable.

Drop on icon feature works except for one of my apps which I am looking into it to see why. My app is a de archiving app which executes a bat file (script) in S:. I have added it in the Drop on app list but it doesn’t do anything when dropping an archive over it. I have called it XAD->RAM and wrote that exact name in the list. My app works fine in WBDock2. Also in UNpacker when dropping an archive on it, it doesn’t show an output window to know what is doing. If you just click the unpacker app and de archive a file then it shows.

It seems that there are no more lock ups and clicks register normally.

One remark is that when you click on an icon to open an app you should not move away from it immediately because the app usually doesn’t open. You should leave the mouse on that app icon you try to open for like a second and then it opens fine no problem.

Also changing Dock style with (X) it can mess up the position and it usually disappears from screen and you need to change the coordinates manually in prefs file to see the dock again.

That is all for now. Great effort, we are getting there

80801 year ago

Thanks for the input

npagonis731 year ago

Hello there. Hope you are well.

Just tried QDock 1.67 and I have to say that the improvements are great. Positioning works fine now by just using the asterisk and if you reboot, it re appears exactly where you had it. Responsiveness has also been greatly improved!!! Well done. Drop on icon feature works fine (except my app).

One small thing regarding positioning. When I position let's say the dock to be in the middle of the lower part of the screen and I add or remove apps on there, the icons are added but the central positioning of the dock is lost and you have to repositioning it with the asterisk. Would be nice to be able for the dock to keep it's position and add the apps centering it's position automatically.

Anyhow the dock works fine now and it is a pleasure to use it. Well done again

80801 year ago

Thanks, I've been thinking on expanding position with center when dock is not in full width/height. You can try using a wrapper for your app, in 32se AmigaOSse/menuicons/Autorun look how i did it... ;) hope you get it working ;)

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