has anyone figured out how to make a dialup connection short cut for objectdock yet?

i have written (in C) a plugin for Keyboard Launchpad to disconnect the current dialup connection, since this was the only solution i found.

i suspect you will need to either find a pair of existing programs that dial and disconnect your connection that you can call via object dock, or hope that someone writes some plugins to do this.


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ack...that's sucky...

there's gotta be a way to do, and i think it lies in the registry...i saw some vbs scripts that make a call to the registry for older os's to load it...but it's different on xp's registry...

flippwilson, what exactly are you trying to do?

i found some info on a website explaining that under win98 whether or not you are currently connected to the net is stored in the registry.

however those keys dont exist in the winXP registry, i looked.

to dial a dialup connection, you need to issue a whole series of API commands, and watch for errors, eg no dial tone. i have looked into this, but havent got around to trying to write a KLP plugin to do this yet.

there may be a way to do this in a script, but i dont know much about windows scripts, so my answer is based on using C++ and writing programs.

Ooops, I was busy on this, but some things interfered with it. I will try to see if I can get something done tonight

andreas - that would rock!!!!

Actually I have been using a Dial-up shortcut on Objectdock since the dock exists. All I do is create a shortcut of the dial-up connection on the desktop and then point my objectdock to this shortcut (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\YourNetworkConnection.lnk)

Doesn't work for me But hey, I will make my own docklet for it

now how can i have a clean deaktop if i have to put icons on it???

drop me a line when you get that docklet made...i would really dig it...

how can i have a clean deaktop if i have to put icons on it

It doesnt have to be the desktop. It could be anywhere I think, just so long as you could link to it.

Disclaimer: I'm not a frequent user of OD, but keeping an eye on it

Just tried it in XP with OD 1.00.006 and it doesn't work

The method works with TabLaunchPad just fine, however.



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now how can i have a clean deaktop if i have to put icons on it???

autohide???