Adding a MacOSX loading dock to your dashboard

It is well known that Macs have a great user interface and one of the great things they have in particular is the program loading dock. We can emulate this in Dashboard Design using the Fisheye Picture Menu. But why would someone want to use the loading dock? Well, you can use the loading to switch between dashboards on the main dashboard. You can use it to open up another dashboard, or you can use it as a selector to change your charts or data. In this recipe, we are going to emulate the swapping between dashboards.

Adding a MacOSX loading dock to your dashboard

How to do it...

  1. Select the Fisheye Picture Menu selector.
  2. We'll need to link an image ...

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