Important Note for Service Packs users: Sadly, the new Service Packs (SP3 for Win2000 and SP1 for WinXP) did big changes in the handle of ActiveDesktop, and the Flash Dock won't work at all in this systems. Although you'll can install it and see it, when you click over an icon the screen will become white; it's because Windows stop all the activity and unload the Active Desktop when the system detects the ActiveX control used to launch the shortcuts. Since it's not a flaw (nor in the system nor in the dock) I'm afraid that will be hard find a solution in the near future. Sorry for this inconvenience.

Developed entirely in Flash MX, this dock is able to handle some features found only in the real OS X, such as a realistic zoomer magnification effect, opening applications animation and other cool visual features. You'll need to have installed the Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 (it's free of charge) and you can download it from Macromedia.

Now for the fun part. I have provided an HTML file. You can set it as part of your active desktop, so you'll be able to set the dock as program launcher, moreover you can customize almost every item in the dock. You'll can set:

• Your own set of icons.
• Your own text on icons.
• Your own wallpaper, and specify their use or not.
• The behaviour of the dock (show/hide state).
• The behaviour of the effects (animation on click, use arrow, use magnification effect)

Download additional icons for the Flash Dock, more than 60 different icons ready for use!

Check out the How to build your own set of icons tutorial

Note: The issue with the CPU usage has been fixed, without loose usability and smoothness. Thanks to Danisan!

Credits

I began to build this dock using as base an excellent tutorial made by Aaron, wich you'll find here. After that, many people take part of the project, people as Danisan who help me a lot since the begining and later fixing the CPU usage flaw, so this could be the largest list of credits in the history. A lot of people is responsible of this great piece of technology, thanks to everybody!

Idea & Graphic Engine: Aaron Ham
Optimization and Actionscript support: Danisan
Javascript code (links): Godai
Beta testing and Readme file: Fireball
Graphics and Customization code: Iceman

Thanks a lot too to the people from Alesys.net (flash masters!), the people from Aqua-Soft.org (my dear community) and those who help me with ideas, bug reporting and beta testing.