AveDesk is a tool that enables desklets on your desktop: desklets are small graphically pleasing mini-applications that are useful and fun to use. A desklet can be anything, a small sticky note, a weather foresight, a calculator, etc. It all depends on the imagination of the desklet creator.

AveDesk 1.4 is the fourth major release of AveDesk, an application which makes desktop prettier and more usable. This release changes emphasis from pretty icons to mini-applications (also known as widgets and desklets).

Features:

• Better support for mini-applications / widgets / desklet
• Several feature-rich new desklets
• Hardware accelerated flip and closing effects
• New user-interface
• Big architecture changes
• Unique library of skinned, alpha-blended controls
• New scriptable desklet: AveScripter
• MultiMonitor Support
• Use powerful desklets/widgets
• Unique Control Panel for managing desklets
• Desklets are skin able
• ShowCase adds an extra level on top of your desktop
• VISTA SUPPORT

Download: http://www.avedesk.org/download.php?id=1
Unzip to desired location, run register.bat and optionally, go into the Data folder and run shellext_reg.bat
read the readme.txt carefully.

Additional Components

AveScripter: http://www.avedesk.org/download.php?id=2
SysStats 2.5.11: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15790729/

This post has been edited by fariz: Jul 15 2008, 09:42 AM

FAQs:

Why do my labels keep returning to the filename when using the shortcut, drive or folder desklet?
There is an option to automatically update the foldername on rename for these desklets. You need to disable that option.
See this screenshot too.

When I use <font name> My label disappears!
It's probably because you tried to use a Type1 font. Type1 fonts are not supported by AveDesk1.1. Try to use a different, similiarly looking font. For example, Lucida Sans Unicode is similiar to LucidaMAC.

How do I make a shortcut to <typical location> ?
In the Shortcut Desklet, you can use own of these links in the path field. Note that a link to My Computer is Shell:driveFolder



Where can I find more desklets?

• Aqua-Soft.org
• DockEx
• Wincustomize (in the ObjectDock section).

Note that AveDesk1.1 is compatible with Object Dock docklets. You can simply create a folder named 'Docklets' in the AveDesk-rootfolder, and place OD-docklets there.

Installing Sysstats For Avedesk (info from Aqua-Soft.org)

Unzip the SysStats zip file into the AveDesk folder. If you're using WinZIP make sure that you have the option checked to use folder names. The SysStats ZIP file already has the correct folder structure within it.

If you got it right SysStatsCOM.dll will be in your AveDesk folder and you should have a folder structure that looks something like this:



The folder is called Docklets, not Desklets.


Trouble-shooting Sysstats And Avedesk

I can't see <insert widget name here> in AveDesk, were'd it go?
Its probably off-screen. Open the AveDesk control panel from the system tray, you should see the desklet listed. Double-click it and change the window position.

I change the window size in AveDesk but my SysStats config just looks all messed up as a result
I change the window size in SysStats and it all looks great until I re-run AveDesk then it all looks messed up
SysStats desklets don't scale with the window size. They just use the window size to restrict how much of the desktop they occupy (they are cropped in other words). If you want to change the scale of a SysStats desklet you need to do the following (this kinda sucks but until the next release of SysStats its all you have. Plus if you are doing this to a config that uses scripts, all hell will probably break loose and you'll wish you'd never started):

• Open the Configure meters dialog from the SysStats right-click menu.
  
• Add a CompositeOverlay class instance to the list of overlays.
  
• Move all of the other overlays into it using the Move Up and Move Down buttons. Make sure you keep the order of the overlays the same.
  
• Set the HScale and VScale of the composite ovelay to get the size you want.

When I restart AveDesk my SysStats configs aren't where I left them
You are using an old version of SysStats. Download the latest one from DockEx. Make sure that you replace every occurrence of SysStats (for AveDesk and/or ObjectDock, but not YzDock) with the up to date one.

How do I get rid of the label?
Open the AveDesk control panel from the system tray, you should see the desklet listed there. Double-click it, switch to the Label tab and set type to No label

The config comes with a font, but I forgot to install it, now I can't get the config to use it
If a config uses a font that isn't installed in your system it will use a substitute instead. Now you have a problem - the substitute font is saved back to the config so it'll never use the right font. This is how you fix it up:

1. Quit AveDesk.
2. Install the font.
3. Re-install the config (or just the .ini file for the config).
4. Re-start AveDesk.

ok thanks guys. got it already.

Hey, need some help here, It says this from the DockEXs website...

"To install this config, download and rename the .zip as .aveinst. Double-click it and AveDesk will install it for you."

How can i rename a .zip to .aveinst in windows xp?

I'm having trouble with this desklet...

http://www.dockex.com/?pageId=docklets&dkview=76

can view anything except the label, i've downloaded the aeroweather too...
btw, i'm using sysstat 2.5.3

This post has been edited by Redundant: Apr 12 2005, 10:21 PM

to rename, select the file and press F2

you can get the latest sysstats from here, http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15790729/

about the config, I don't know, I don't use it.

Still unable to change the file's extension...

anyone tried using this desklet before?

http://www.dockex.com/?pageId=docklets&dkview=76

Open Windows Explorer, Tools > Folder Options > View > Make sure "Hide extensions for known file types" is unchecked.

Select the file, press F2, and change the extension to .aveinst instead of .zip

Double-click the file.

Hope this helps.

hey guys, do u hav any nice To Do list for avedesk besides the one included in it? something like the rainlender's to do list where u can cancel off things that you have done, no need to edit the notepad urselves one...

Hmm...My avedesk doesnt start on start-up..
How do u make it start up together with your computer?

Go to the global options and select the auto startup

Ahhh....
Done!
Thx man

Everytime i shut down my computer, the sysstats task would pop up n ask if i would to end the task (or wait for it to close automatically), what should be the problem?
im using windows xp sp2, avedesk 1.2, sysstats 2.5.3

This post has been edited by Redundant: Apr 22 2005, 02:45 PM

Hi all,

I created a shortcut icon on my desktop using Avedesk1.2 but the icon seem to be too large (about 140x120) per icon. How can i reseize it to become smaller??? and whenever i click on it my label wordings is overlap by the icon is there anyway i can fix this? thanks

i got this weird problem... eveytime i choose the icon or pngs.. it shows the default windows icon after i press ok

any idea how to fix this? thnx in advance

did you change it at the icon tab or appearance tab? use the icon tab > select use custom images

guys.... i'm very blur after intall avedesk... how to put HDD status at desktop?

open avedesk control panel
desklets > add > pidlshortcut > my computer > add item
open desklet properties (or right click desklet)
shortcut tab > path > put path to folder/drive
icon tab > use cutom images > set image for 'Normal Image' (png is recommended)

TQ.....

is it like that? coz, if i browse the file, i dunno where to point my HDD for avedesk open (D: drive for example) and view the contain of D:\ and...

Can it show the status of HDD (like: %used, %total or so on), if it does, how to do it?

hope u understand (it's hard for me to explain )