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chanceibmny
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September 30, 2009
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Application Switcher?

  • September 30, 2009
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Hey guys,

Quick question: In all of these tutorial video's I'm watching, whenever they switch between Illustrator and InDesign or any other programs, a window pops up on their screen that shows the icons of (I'm guessing) the open programs they have up. Does anyone know what this is, or how to get it? I use dual monitors and while I can alt+tab np, the icons are a bit small and I sometimes have up 2-3 adobe programs + firefox + some MS office programs... it would be nice to have something like what I see in the video's. Thanks guys.

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    Correct answer RoboWizard

    Ah well, thank you Rick. Naturally, right after I posted I changed my search words around a little and found some alternatives to the default windows alt+tab window. Since I can't get that nifty one, I'll try out the Vista alt+tab replacement. It looks decent, when you mouse over the icon, it'll show a preview window of what the other program/software has up. Thanks again for the swift replies Rick! Cheers


    Hi again

    If you have Vista you can get a really slick effect by pressing the Windows logo key+Tab to see the windows in a different manner.

    Cheers... Rick

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    chanceibmnyAuthor
    Participant
    October 3, 2009

    Hey dec9 =)

    @shunithD: YouTube is being extremely slow today, so I haven't had a chance to really watch any video's on that RocketDock yet, but it looks pretty sweet. I know a few other video's I've seen out there have something that sounds like RocketDock, docked at the center bottom of their window. Because the tut author is never nice enough to tell us about their app switcher instead of the app or tut their working on, I'm not exactly sure what it is. However, thank you for posting the RocketDock, I'm going to check it out because it sounds at least as close to what I'm looking for as possible

    @khaziranga: Rick was very helpful, but he wasn't quite sure either... I chose "Helpful Answer" instead of "Correct Answer" because technically I am still wondering what those programs were that they were using. I've also marked shunithD's post as Helpful because by looking around the RocketDock website, it is similiar but not really it... doesn't mean I don't appreciate the link, and you really can't expect someone to pop up and say "yeah, that is XYZ program and you can find it here", so it's a little harder to assign a Correct Answer in a post like this. I don't want to give someone a Correct Answer who wasn't dead on the money, only for someone to come by later looking for the same thing and be misdirected, ya know?

    Still, thanks for the posts guys, I really do appreciate it ^.^

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    khaziranga
    Known Participant
    October 3, 2009

    chanceibmny wrote:

    @khaziranga: Rick was very helpful, but he wasn't quite sure either... I chose "Helpful Answer" .....

    No, it's not that... the question is marked as answered but the Correct answer option is still available. Just wondered who or why it was marked answered.

    Anyway, in reply to your post #2, i tend to agree with Rick. That does look like a  Mac interface.

    Kath-H
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    October 3, 2009

    Anyone who starts a question thread can mark it answered at any time, without necessarily crediting anyone. Moderators can also mark posts 'assumed answered'.

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    khaziranga
    Known Participant
    October 3, 2009

    Kind of weird... i see the post as being answered but no one is credited with answering it. Am  i missing something? (BTW am new to the Adobe forums.)

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    Anonymous
    October 3, 2009

    Been a while since I made a real post. I think it has to do with selecting a option to award points. If a poster chooses not to award but just showed answered. So the post will showed answered but no points were awarded. Something like that.

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    shunithD
    Inspiring
    October 3, 2009

    Don't know if this will help but you could try a program called RocketDock...

    http://rocketdock.com/

    Haven't tried it myself but saw it on a friend's system... Gather it's free.

    RoboWizard
    RoboWizard
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2009

    Hi there

    This forum is intended to discuss issues with the forums themselves. But your question seems to be rather generic and doesn't really apply to a specific Adobe product. So I suppose here is as good as another category.

    Can you point us to a video that shows what you are seeing? Or possibly screen capture it and post here for us to see? If you do, please insert the image using the Camera icon so it's visible straight away. Sometimes images end up endlessly queued if you use the attach function.

    Cheers... Rick

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    chanceibmnyAuthor
    Participant
    September 30, 2009

    Hello Rick

    I'm so sorry LOL I always seem to hit the wrong forums, but thanks for the super fast reply! Note to self: read stickies from now on. It is generic really, and I've only seen this in tutorials for adobe products, hence why I posted here.

    The latest tutorial I saw it on was an InDesign tut on lynda.com at http://www.lynda.com/home/Player.aspx?lpk4=39840 right about halfway through the video, but it's only up for a brief moment. Here is the screen capture of it.

    You can see right there that he's got two programs open, one of them being InDesign. I'm guessing this is some sort of UI tweak for the alt+tab window, to replace it. I'm also going to take a stab in the dark and say that it's on a mac, since most of the tutorials I've come across, the person doing the tut is on a mac. However, I'm on Win XP SP3 so if any of this makes sense to you, and you know where I could possibly get something like this for Win XP, I would really appreciate it.

    Thanks!

    RoboWizard
    RoboWizard
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2009

    Hi again

    Indeed my guess would be Mac. I think the dead giveaway is the smileyface icon. I've never seen anything like this on a PC. I too use Windows XP Professional 3.

    Cheers... Rick

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