Textbased tasks Thread last updated on 2003-10-14 20:36:04

Posted by member 27183 on 2003-09-10 17:55:17

Hello hallo!
Is any taskmodule that i can make textbased task with? What i mean is that i dont want any icons, just plain text. I also wanna be able to make some sort of separator betwen the tasks. ex: - task1 - task2 - task3 - ...

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Posted by member 1 on 2003-09-10 18:48:26 link

tasks.dll can do this.

Posted by member 27183 on 2003-09-11 08:45:20 link

ok, i looked throuh the readme of tasks.dll and tried different settings .. but i coulnt make it look nice ... but it probebbly just me :P

Posted by member 31 on 2003-09-12 14:26:46 link

This should do ok for starts. I do not suggest using real transparency, as it will be very hard to click on the task to activate the window, unless you use a very large font size. :) There is no way to add text separators. Sorry.
LoadModule tasks.dll

TasksHeight 20
TasksWidth 100

TasksSpacingX 10

TasksNoIcons
TasksNoMove

;TasksTransparency real

TasksTitles
TasksTitleSelected
TasksTitleMinimized

TasksTitleHeight 20
TasksTitleWidth 100

TasksTitleX 0
TasksTitleY 0

TasksTitleFontSize 12

Posted by member 32550 on 2003-09-12 16:52:52 link

TaskbarIconShow "TRUE"

for taskbar 3

delete this line and all other with icons in tb3 you also wouldn't have any incon

Posted by member 27183 on 2003-10-14 18:16:48 link

I got it working with text-titles, but how do i make a seperator? .. I coulnt find anything in the readme ...

What i want is the titles to look something like this:
[ Title1 ][ Title2 ][ Title3 ] ...

Posted by member 36955 on 2003-10-14 20:36:04 link

use an image for the tiles that is smaller than the tile size, it doesnt stretch them... or use magic pink