[firecracker6]

you rock!

So WinExpose will be able to reverse it's animation (at any stage during it's animation) when a window is selected? I can't wait to see this in action

[f000by]

Awesome app!

Do you plan on implementing window captions for the WinExposed windows at some point? I find the window captions particularily useful when there are many windows open, and the exposed windows become too small to easily tell which window is which.

Thanks again for a great program!

[Fosssi]

@matonga:
experienced the same, reproducable issue that sranshaft posted 6 days ago:
everytime my computer wakes up from standby (or hibernation), WinExposé crashes and the process gets killed. I don't really know what happens cause the logon screen keeps me from reading any dialoge boxes (in case there are any) but the system sound definately says that something is going wrong (sounds, as sranshaft reported like a stream of error boxes). Just wanted to let you know. Perhaps I somehow manage to get a screenshot. Will try tomorrow.
Keep it up. The update (version release) speed is amazing!!!

[crucius]

This programm gets better and better!:)But I still experience the blurry bug on the bottom of my desktop when I use it . But it now has the colors like the real background of my desktop but still bluryy.

[thy]

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@thy
Just add the name of the app which you don't want WinExpose to use, ie RunMe.

thanks for replying me...
but I think I have trouble finding what "yzDock"'s windows caption is.
is there any way to find out?

or if there is a feature can detect and show the list of all current windows' caption would be nice too^^~~

(the yzDock turn into a white block when activate the winExpose', dont' know how it work if it's in the exception list)


and last...thank you so much:d

[mps69]

@thy
I just added the name of the folder my app was running from, RK Launcher, RunMe etc.

[matonga]

I uploaded new version (2006-10-03):

- Fixed very horrible bug with min-texture-aspect-ratio restriction (would cause division by zero error on some video boards).
- Updated window enumeration algorithm to avoid layered windows. Now it should avoid including RK Launcher and other programs between the exposed windows.
- Implemented "the ability to select a window even if/while the expose animation has yet to complete" (requested by firecracker6).

Current known problems:

- Lots of video board incompatibility (write a GDI+ engine? support both Direct3D and GDI+ as options?)
- No multimonitor support yet (in progress, doing I+D work).
- WinExposé shutdowns unexpectedly by no reason.
- WinExposé doesn't survive hibernation (and worst of all, I can't reproduce the problem, works perfect in my computer and not at all in any other... *#$*f***ck!!!)
- Some users report problems with WindowBlinds (I don't have it... yet).

This is not a comprehensive list, feel free to post whatever I may have forgotten.

Matias

PS: @f000by: I have no idea where to put the captions (I'm not sort of good GUI designer). Above the windows would be right?

[Sranshaft]

Great to hear the update news. Looking forward to each and every one now. The 'Quick select' feature sounds like a good one. Glad Firecracker suggested it.

My opinion on where to place titles would be a darkened bar across the currently selected preview with the title centered. Allowing the user to set font face, size, style would be a bonus.

How exactly is it done on a Mac? I've never seen it in action (my Apple experience is limited to the days of Apple IIe and Macintosh Classic...you know the one's I'm talking about).

Thanks a lot for all your hard work. This is turning out to be one of those must have apps along the lines RK Launcher has become.

Edit: Is there anyway to keep the taskbar visible while in expose mode?

[f000by]

The new version works great with RK Launcher and AveDesk. Thanks for the update!

As for the window captions: in OS X, they appear in the centre of the current mouseover window in a box with a translucent grey background. In case you aren't sure what I mean by window captions, I'm referring to the text in the title bar (ex. Aqua-Soft Forums - Reply to Topic - Mozilla Firefox is what I would expect to see). You can get an idea of what I mean by watching the preview movie at http://www.apple.com...ter/expose.html

[matonga]

Oh fool of me! I was about to post the same link and comments as f000by...

Ok, added to the to-do list.

Matias

[f000by]

Excellent! Eagerly awaiting the next few releases

[SirSmiley]

Nice work. This has brightened my week tremendously.

[firecracker6]

OK, just tested out the new release and wow..
you've accomplished what no other expose clone has yet to do (at least that I know of)

The user can now select their desired window at ANY TIME!! And your animation smoothly compensates Congratulations!
First Activation (expose) of windows is still a bit laggy but this is getting really nice!

P.S. May I suggest trying out TopDesk: http://www.otakusoft...desk/index.html
for inspiration?

Also, perhaps before adding labels and other embellishments, could you focus on activation speed? I believe some of the other clones keep the window images uncompressed / buffered in mem to keep the window transitions smooth. (check out topdesk) This small factor would take WinExpose closer to a productive everyday tool... as with a large amount of windows open, it takes quite a while for WinExpose to activate presently.
Thanks for considering.

[Zaft]

Has TopDesk fixed that problem with transparent titlebars in WB5 yet? Also does it work with Style properly?

[firecracker6]

the answer is no to both... unfortunately Zaft, i think that unless Stardock reveals some of their apis to these other developers that getting the transparent titlebars to have their transparency 'handed' off to another app'll be difficult. I too really really wish it could be done. And I know that Styler does get handled properly, using a certain window capture method with Reflexvision (or entbloess) but with sporatic results. I really hope someone can figure out a fix or workaround for interoperability between these programs.

[mps69]

matonga;422336 said:

I uploaded new version (2006-10-03):


Current known problems:

- WinExposé doesn't survive hibernation (and worst of all, I can't reproduce the problem, works perfect in my computer and not at all in any other... *#$*f***ck!!!)

I don't know if this is the same thing, but I've started using your app at work. When we leave our station we lock our PC's, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, lock work station. When we unlock them the app has shut down, however the icon remains in the taskbar.

[Fosssi]

@matonga:
Great to see a new release!
Tried again with the hibernation bug. The "division by zero" error is gone. After waking up from hibernation a dialog box now says:

Die Anweisung in 0x00000002 verweist auf Speicher "0x00000002". Der Vorgang "read" konnte nicht durchgeführt werden. Press OK to quit the application or cancel to debug.

Trying to translate:
The allocation in [see above] refers to memory in [see above]. The process "read" could not be accomplished.

This is kind of a Windows standard sentence and I'm sorry that I can't provide the exact English translation for that (Perhaps a German user with experience with the English version of Windows can give the exact translation or perhaps you know what I mean (hopefully)).

Hope that helps. Besides this hibernation bug everything works fine for me. One of the best Exposé clones i've seen so far . Keep it up!

[gammarax]

hi matonga! Just wanna say first, great work!

Not only are you doing this non-commercially (as in, no payment), you're really updating it almost every other day! Appreciate that bro!

Oh, a suggestion for the program...in Mac, users can activate expose by clickin on the 2 buttons on the side of the mouse. Do you think you can possibly make that available for windows mouses with a scroll press?

What i mean is the mouse with a scroller that you can press down. I'm kinda lazy to press F9 or alt+tab all the time to activate expose hehe..so is that possible? (some ppl call this mouse click "mouse3")

Hope to see more of your work!

[GWing_02]

Fosssi: looks like a standard Access Violation.

[CK05]

Great program and I usually uninstall these things because they are useless but this is very, very good.

My only complain is that sometimes when you goto to click the Start Button it gets activated which gets quite annoying, is there a way to disable that corner only?

Many thanks Matonga.