Media Monkey and Object Dock

cjoshuav · Post by **cjoshuav** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:42 am

I'm using Object Dock as a Windows Taskbar replacement. When I start up MediaMonkey I end up with four icons in my system tray. When I open up some windows (like Options) I end up with even more.

MediaMonkey is the only app that does this (and disabling the "Always show in System Tray" icon only gets rid of one of the icons).

Has anyone else experienced this or a similar bug?

Joshua

Post by **Peke** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:36 pm

Have you tried to set MM not to force Tray Icon in Tools->Options?
It should fix the problem as "Object Dock" sometimes shows something that it should not show.

cjoshuav · Post by **cjoshuav** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:50 pm

Peke,

I tried that. No change.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:31 pm

Did you already contact the creators (StarDock) of ObjectDock?
They should make that their program behaves the same as the default systray does...

cjoshuav · Post by **cjoshuav** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:21 pm

I've contacted them but haven't heard back yet. I thought I'd check here to see if anyone else had run across it.

Joshua

Post by **Peke** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:45 pm

I had briefly installed Object Dock and had that Problem.
I hav e fixed it somehow but I can't remember how

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:01 pm

this is done because monkey is using the windows explorer shell.

which causes the object dock to see multiple windows being opened.

you got to tell the object dock to see only one window when monkey opens and ignore the rest that it sees monkey opening.

this has to be done by the object dock's authors or maybe a script.

or the authors might have already put a option in the dock to fix mutliple windows showing for the same program.

just maybe telling the windows bar to group all like windows might fix it.

try updating your object dock they might have a new vesion of it.

tiagoclaus · Post by **tiagoclaus** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:24 am

I must say that this issue exists till the present time.

junglemonkey · Post by **junglemonkey** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:01 pm

did you update star dock ? as told to? did you tell their devlopers about it? or their scripters about it?

there is no reason for monkey to add icons per window that media monkey opens. it does not happen with media monkey using the os task bar. so it has to be something in the after market task bar if you got no help from them i would consider tossing their program.

but if that is the case go to the first thread in the bug report forum room
follow the instructions for making a bug report and send that in to media monkeys developers. i am sure it can be fixed by them even though it is a different programers error since they know how to add icons to the system tray it should be a simple fix for any programmer,

its just wheather or not they want to fix some one elses program to get it working in media monkey? they are nice so they might but its just one more thing the other programs developers are lazy about.

and if rusty and the others fix it then that shows you who is the better programmers.

so try the debug report the developers and us in the forum want happy media monkey users.

tiagoclaus · Post by **tiagoclaus** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:12 pm

A sadly reply status.

I have updated to Media Monkey 3 Alpha build 1034 and ObjectDock Plus 1.9 build 535u, which seems to be the latest versions today, and the issue status is: unknown.

That's because OD+ 1.9 has a bug in which the tray icon show an empty bar. It seems to be happening only to a few people, but the suggestion listed here did not work for me.

I have earlier tested MM3 with OD+ 1.5 and the "several monkeys" issue was there, which is really annoying. I suppose this is an OD+ bug, but it appears that it is soon yet to say there will a patch for it.

I love MM as much as OD, but I will have somehow to an alternative for OD if this issue is going to live forever. If anyone had found a different alternative to solve this problem, please, post here.

Diabolic-Destiny · Post by **Diabolic-Destiny** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:55 pm

mm works fine with other docks

ys dock
rkluancher (what i use)
rocketdock

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 11, 2007 8:14 pm

Thanks for the tips. I will try them to see if one works for me.