Taskbar 5 BETA

With startmenu wallpaper and "transparent" mode enabled.

Requirements

FreeMiNT + XaAES. Will possibly work under MyAES as well, please test and let me know.
A properly installed AV-server.
Some RAM to spare. Taskbar will use 400+ Kb of RAM, depending on the size of your icons file, background images, colour depth etc.
Recommended: Keyboard Tweaks.
Recommended: NVDI >= 2.5 (for bitmap backgrounds).

New since the previous beta

The legacy startmenu now actually works.
Application windows can be tiled or moved to pre-defined desktop zones.
Configuration dialog(s) has been revamped.
Visual changes/updates:
- New optional button style - icon above button.
- New taskbar background styles - plain with selectable colour, AES (with gradient under XaAES), wallpaper and "transparent".
- Optional image background on the startmenu.
- Optional: Taskbar grows/shrinks as needed.
- Application/accessory order can be sorted.
HYPertext documentation updated. Read it here.
Some functionality avaiable via VA_START messages, which means that these functions can be controlled by Keyboard Tweaks or other external programs.

This beta version does not look in $HOME for configuration files, only in the folder it's started from. So if you're an existing Taskbar user and want to use your Thing! groupfile based startmenu then copy your Index.grp to the same folder as this beta. It also means that you can test this beta without it interfering with your old Taskbar setup.

Disclaimer

I've been using this program on my Falcon060 with MiNT/XaAES for months without issues. However, that does not mean it works flawlessy on your system. I strongly recommend having memory protection enabled when testing/using this software!

Screenshots

Type to search for a program or file in the startmenu.

Tiled image taskbar background.

AES background, which produces a nice gradient under XaAES and hi-/truecolour.

Flexible tiling of application windows.

Up to eight desktop zones can be defined. Preview to the right.