IDEA: sidebar gadget!

[ansabhailte]

ok so if youre interested I can send you pics, but I want a windows desktop gadget that has a character sprite at the right hand side and a box at the left hand side that when you click something the box expands and a list of programmable tasks appears. basically it is a custom launcher. but it will launch command-line, meaning that if i want to launch a virus scan, the text will actually be a link to a command that unattendedly starts the virus scan. anyway, if somebody could make this I can send you pics. thx!

[Nod5]

The launcher part of this (including launching command line arguments and everything else) can probably be achieved with FARR. But I don't think it can do the graphics part. Is the graphic essential to what you're aiming to use this gadget for?

[ansabhailte]

yes it is. I already have a standard appication launcher, but not one like this...

[Nod5]

Another quick idea: use autohotkey to make a script that displays an always on top graphic that acts as an open/close button for whatever launcher application you want to use. An even simpler alternative would be a custom desktop icon, but then you have size restraints and not always on top.