I'm trying to create something that behaves like the Mac OS X dock bar in Litestep. Wharfx with grdTransparent almost works, except the background needs to be transparent while the actual icons are opaque. I am trying to accomplish this by using shortcuts for the icons, which aren't made transparent, and then creating a wharf with empty boxes, which is transparent. The problem I'm running in to, is that I can't get the wharf to be behind the shortcuts. Is there any way to do this, or a better way to emulate the Mac OS X dock?

People will suggest that you use ObjectDock or the perhaps outdated tabooware Y'zDock.

moshi made a litestep dock before; that's all I know.

I imagine that without magnification you could do this with xLabel. Of course if you're willing to compile the animations per icon you might get away with it. 32-bit PNG images for xLabels with AlwaysOnTop AlphaMap where you compose them against the bar graphic. And perhaps a single 'tooltip' label that's the same but Ghosted where you draw up the text for each icon; move around and show that label per icon's onEnter event.