Description ----------- DesktopClock is a plugin for the alternate windows shell, Aston ( http://www.astonshell.com). It will display a clock on the user's desktop.
Features: - Fully Skinable & Customizable. - Aston Secure Desktop compatible. - Transparency level and Ghost mode. - Up to 10 Alarms times with messages. - Z-Order code with "Always on top" and "Taskbar" mode. - Build-in Calendar. - 7 Days of the week can be set to start at Monday or Sunday. - Chimes every Hour. - Talking Clock (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish Talk files included). - Tray Icon for easy access. - Day of Week. - Day and Night indicator. and much more...
Description: Plug-in allows web like behavior of your cursor on Aston desktop. It will turn your cursor in to "hand" when you hover over icons or desktop elements. To restore the old cursor behavior just disable the plug-in.
Description: Wallpaper changer for Aston Shell. Main feature ability to change wallpaper on click, ability to include many different wallpapers in a single theme and a skinnable button.
Description ----------- TaskAmp is a WinAmp player control for Aston Shell. With this plugin you control the music playback using one small control in Taskbar.
WHY I MAKE THIS ONE? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Most of TrayAmp plug-in use too much space in tray area So I make this... Enjoy... ;)
Description: TaskAmp is a WinAmp player control for Aston Shell. With this plugin you control the music playback using one small control in Taskbar.
WHY I MAKE THIS ONE? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Most of TrayAmp plug-in use too much space in tray area So I make this... Enjoy... ;)
Description: Spectrum is a plugin for the alternate windows shell, Aston It will display a Spectrum Analyzer that follows the output of soundcard and displays itself on desktop. ---- o ---- May be is not very useful, but it is really beautiful ;)
It's not a comercial, it's just for fun and free :)
NEW! - Talking feature re-written anew for the requests of new languages. Thanks to: Gilles Guédikian (French) Ulrike Schleier (German) Alessio (Italian) Korney San (Russian)
Description: zIP 2.0 displays your external IP address on your Aston desktop. New features include skins, and multi-monitor support. Includes a skin pack, courtesy of krstatzar.
Description: The replacement for DisksEx plugin. This plugin allows you to add hdd, cdrom, flash and net drives icons to your desktop. When right-clicked the Explorer context menu is shown. PS. Russian folder contains russian version of plugin.
Update: Fixed bug with black infill bar Fixed bug with detecting network drives Added: customizable hints Added: action on open Now supports XP-style shadows and ClearType font smoothing Skin included
Description: Sticker is a little plug-in which lets you keep your notes always at hand. Double click on the sticker or the corresponding item in the plug-in context menu lets you edit your notes. You can have any number of stickers you like - just right-click on it and select "Add sticker" option. Alternatively you can do it from the tray. You can set a few different skins on the "Skin" tab, so that you can have several stickers of different color on your desktop. Switching the frames is done on the middle click. In the future venison you will be able to make a sticker behave as a reminder - you can set time and date you need the sticker to appear on your desktop. The plug-in is skinnable, as usual.
Description: This plug-in allows you to monitor your input and output traffic in Mb. It also lets lets you see the traffic speed. Feel free to skin it! To install the plug-in, please, extract the archive to %AstonFolder%/Plugins/ folder. Then start Aston Options, select 'Plug-ins' tab and click on 'Add'. Browse for the needed plug-in. Start any *.apc file located in DefSkin folder in order to apply one of the available skins.
Description: What's new in 1.1 version: + The plugin code is totally rewritten; + Disk icons can be animated now (by means of ank and ankz) + Glass layer is added + ZOrder, transparency and locking of the disks icons can be altered now
New ideas and wishes regarding the plug-in are welcome. You can either them mail the to support@.. or impement them yourself. :) The plug-in source code can be downloaded here.
To install the plug-in, please, extract the archive to %AstonFolder%/Plugins/ folder. Then start Aston Options, select 'Plug-ins' tab and click on 'Add'. Browse for the needed plug-in. Start DiskEx.apc file located in the same folder in order to apply the skin displayed on the preview.
Description: It's a new small plug-in, which allows to create Start button in order to call out the Main Menu. Its basic feature is that the button size can exceed the height (or width, if you're using Taskbar in the vertical position), just like in Windows Vista. It also supports animation. When using this plug-in, don't forget to disable your regular Start Button (go to Aston Options->Taskbar tab->Start button and leave all the fields void there). That plug-in was created on the idea of Krstazar, one of the most active community members. New ideas regarding this plug-in are welcome.
Description: zVolume is a skinnable volume control for your desktop. It allows up to four volume sliders, including mute buttons. It comes with two skins, ice (pictured) and fire.
zVolume has only been tested on Aston 1.9.2 running under Windows XP. Your mileage may vary, I make no promises of system compatibility.
Description: This plug-in is intended to disable all the tooltips of your Taskbar, toolbars, QLaunch Panel and Systray. If you find them really annoying - download it and get rid of all hints
Description: zSetDekstopArea (or zSDA) will limit the area that windows can occupy. This can be used to prevent windows from overlapping desktop elements. For example, if your theme has a 50 pixel bar at the top, you can create a 50 pixel border so that windows will not be able to be dragged over your panel.
Note: Multi-monitor set ups are not fully supported at this time.
Description: This is a second version of my desktop calendar. It is now partly 'skinable' so you can customize it in some way to suit your theme. Source code is included. Any suggestions or comments are welcome :D feel free to write to me
Description: I have programmed a desktop plugin that acts like Windows Task manager. It shows the Process ID's and executable names of the running process, and can be used to terminate them. The plugin is programmed using Delphi and WinAPI. ------- New version, with new features and bugfixes. Now includes a readme file as well.
Description: TipsEditor is a plugin that lets you edit your TIPS.RC file in a graphical interface. It's as easy as adding it to your plug-ins list and activating it. :)
Description: WindowController is a plugin that lets you hide or show windows of a defined classname. In a way you can think of it as virtual desktops, but without the desktops (as it hides windows).
To find the classname of a window, there is also a program included to list all taskbar visible applications running (and maybe a few more).
Originally this was created for myself to control the space I have on my taskbar (which anyone who uses Aston knows it's valuable space ;) because of how many BitTorrent windows I usually have open. So this was created to hide them, essentially removing them from the taskbar and giving me my taskbar space back. :)
Description: MouseTrap is for people who lose their mouse pointer from time to time. It's also if you just want to have a little fun with playing with the mouse (and sounds. Yes it has a sound to it).
If you lose your mouse, you can easily press a hotkey, which can be defined in the plugin, and pop your mouse to your desired location on the screen, also definable in the plugin.
Description: My first plug-in for Aston. Aston+AltDesk What it do: 1 Place it own icon into taskbar. 2 When mouse move above icon on taskbar it show altdesk window and atomaticaly corect altdesk window position. 3 When mouse move to other windows the plugin hide AltDeskWindow after 1 sekond (it can be changed in plugin settings) 4 Also you culd click on icon on taskbar to change desktop.
Description: on summer vacation i often don't know which day of the month or day of the week it is, so i wrote something i called 'desktop callendar' it looks this way becouse i wanted it to compose with the binary clock that i use it is mosty based on the code of the binary clock it's still a beta and i'm still working on it, but it chould work just fine :D
Description: Sorry for my bad English, but I’m from Germany and I used an online translator :-)
This is my first plug-in for Aston and there is a little bug in the context menu but I don’t know why :-) Perhaps somebody can help me.
The surface looks very bad because I’m not a good designer, but everyone can paint his own surface. It’s very easy.
I tested this plug-in only with MBM5 and WinXP. Aston must run as default !!!!
Perhaps somebody can correct this text *gg*
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Das ist mein erstes plugin für Aston, es gibt noch einen kleinen Fehler im Context Menü, aber ich habe keine Ahnung woher er kommt. Vielleicht kann mir jemand helfen der dieses Fehler schon mal gehabt hat oder dessen Ursache kennt.
Die Oberfläche sieht zwar ziemlich kacke aus, aber ich bin Programmierer und kein Designer :-) Aber jeder kann sich die Oberfläche selber gestaltet, sollte eigentlich nicht schwer sein.
Ich habe dieses Plugin nur mit MBM5 und WinXP getestet, würde mich deshalb freuen wenn ihr mir mailen würdet wenn es bei euch auch auf anderen Windows Versionen läuft.
Aston muss als default laufen !!!!
Weitere Features sind geplant, wie z. B. Lüfter Drehzahl, Spannung
Description: Pixelated is a magnification plug-in for AstonShell. It was designed with the theme/skin creator in mind. Pixelated has advantages over some other magnification utilities in that it will display crosshairs, x/y coordinates, and the RGB color of the pixel under the mouse cursor.
Description: BinaryClock 1.1 by Risko 2004 IMHO, it's not for common people... ;)
How it work: -sample: The screenshot represent 23:25:38
:the first culomn are tens of hours in binary system :the second culomn are ones of hours in binary system :the 3rd - 10 x minutes :the 4th - 1 x minutes :the 5th - 10 x seconds :the 6th - 1 x seconds
... if you don't like it, please do not use it. it's not good for you healt ...
WN in 1.1: - added constant color instead of inverted - added 12 hour format for tim
Description: Digital desktop time for AstonShell v1.1 WN: - 12/24 hour format (requested by some user) - displaying AM/PM mark - suppresing zero in hour digits
Description: AstAmp is a media player control component for Aston Shell 1.9 and above. With this plugin you can visualize and control the playback of your music while running Aston. Plugin is highly customizable and flexible enough to be a part of any Theme.
Description: ZCommand is an AstonShell plug-in that will place a textbox in your taskbar. You are able to type executables, URLs, internet searches, even basic calculations into ZCommand.
Description: Aston Resource Monitor is a system resource and network usage monitor for Aston Shell 1.9 and above. Plugin is able to display information in two modes: graphical (using image list - a set of separate frames, compiled horizontally into a single image) and textual. You can use PNG images to create your own meters of any shape and form.
-- Note: This plug-in doesn't have a default skin. For using this plug-in You should add this plugin via A-master and launch amonitor.apc file.
Description: This plugin is the last generation analog clock plugin for Aston. Being a successor of DCClock and XPClock plugins it keeps all their features, having much greater functionality. Many of its features are unique and cannot be seen in other applications. -- Note: This plugin doesn't have a default skin. For using this plug-in You should add this plugin via A-master and launch AClock.apc file.
Description: Ghost window - plugin that allows you to set up windows transparency. (Win-2000 and Win-XP only) This plugin is not recommended for old video cards.
Description: Toppanel - is the horizontal fully customizable sets of items on the desktop. The menu items pop out On mouse over action (or On click action). Each item could have any size & shape and also text & application icons.