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I'm using Miranda IM and i was wondering, is it possible to dock (correct word?)it to a side and don't not cover over the systray? i have mine in the lower right corner and when i dock Miranda to the right side it cover the systray, maximized programs and windows don't cover it. Does anybody know a workaround for this?

Another question, I have a winamp interface (dynamp) and a button binded to open the playlist, and when I open it I would like to have it open as the active application and not show up under everything else.

If you could answer these questions for me I would be gratefull.

1 - i believe setdesktoparea (desktop2) or setworkarea (jdesk) should allow this to work... it will fix the maximized windows covering them, im not positive about docking. check the docs for how they work.

2 - try using !amp_show rather than !amp_playlist... it will show the whole winamp window, but it wont go underneath windows

wasnt docking removed from the latest miranda nightly?

about the playlist, a simple

!execute [!amp_playlist][!pause 100][!one "WinampPE" "Winamp Playlist Editor"]

should do the job :)
...if you are using winamp2, of course.
You should try other value for the !pause, but I guess a !pause is needed.
And, of course, you have to load one.dll

could always just set winamp to be always on top..

Thanks

@psynapse: I've just burned an Athlon 1800XP last week without overclocking...

No one has a suggestion for the first question (regarding docking)? This has been an annoyance of mine for quite sometime as well.

I don't know how miranda is. Can't you move it manually ?
Then, using some window'movin'able module like wndman or lsdynamic should solve the problem

did you try doy's suggestion??

I have miranda to autosize with maximum height 100% since my desktop area excludes my systray in my bartheme.
miranda's "Size upwards" doesn't work here, so I keep miranda at the top of the screen so it can grow downward.

I don't know what you mean by docking, but since I don't show miranda's titlebar, allSnap will refuse to make it snap. No problem since I don't intend to move it after I position it.

Docking: Some applications (ICQ, Trillian, Miranda, others I'm sure) can DOCK to the edge (left/right) of the screen (full screen height !!!minus the height of the taskbar!!!). These programs alter the desktop area when they do this, so when another application (Windows Explorer for example) maximizes, it will not cover the docked window. Under the Windows shell this works perfectly, however in Litestep these windows (when docked) always use the entire screen height when docked. Altering the desktop module's desktop area settings does not fix this.

I repeat:

I don't know how miranda is. Can't you move it manually ?
Then, using some window'movin'able module like wndman or lsdynamic should solve the problem

oh, I've never had the pleasure of experiencing that form of docking that you describe. It would be hacky at best, to try and implement this without coding it into litestep or a desktop module. I'd imagine you'd magically tie jDesk, Literunner, Timer, Mzscript, RabidVWM together.

All I can get miranda to do is never autosize past the desktop area (which it shouldn't). Not have it "be part of the UI", like litestep, which would basically exclude it from being inside the desktop area...

I am stupid !

!execute [!one "Winamp PE" "Winamp Playlist Editor" .none .show][!one "Winamp PE" "Winamp Playlist Editor"]

shows and give the focus to the playlist whenever winamp (and the playlist) is hidden or not :)