[matonga]

[Markoz]

Thanks, This looks awesome !

[csongi]

this is cool

[SbuxBlaze]

cool, awesome! I hope to see the final version soon. maybe it will be possible to skin it so it looks like the real finder

[Ojalord]

make it something that integrates in explorer, and please please aim for x64 compatibility as well,

[rohImon]

looks awsome man,looking forward to the release

[Husaini HB]

What,this the greatest,since nobody could done it but you,open all my images,plays all my video,smooth so far,like it a lot,thank's,keep up the good work,congrat's

[matonga]

Ok, this is getting better...

http://www.matiasmoreno.com.ar/FlyingCow-p...pdf-support.rar

No bugfixes, just added .pdf support.

The program is Project1.exe

The other dlls and exes allow FlyingCow to render PDFs.

[Husaini HB]

Ok,maybe you can add another movie files,thank's

{{UPDATE}}

The new ver is more stable,but I got this warn when opened pdf file,thank's

[Björn]

Hi,

a dream come true. This is great news. Just tried and works great. Just a few things. If you have photos bigger in size (2Mb) it´ll slow down the scrolling and sometimes also hangs and pdftoppm.exe is running with 25% CPU in the background still. Some pdfs are shown, others not.

Hope the app comes integrated in the explorer, that would be very nice.

[matonga]

Husaini HB;481427 said:

The new ver is more stable,but I got this warn when opened pdf file,thank's

Mmm... seems pdftoppm doesn't like the .pdf.

Can you test pdfinfo.exe "full path to the problematic pdf" from a command line and sending me the output? (pdfinfo is in same path than FlyingCow/Project1.exe)

New version (....-with-better-pdf-support.rar, see first post) should stop showing error message (but won't let you read the pdf, so the problem persists anyway).

[Husaini HB]

matonga;481433 said:

Mmm... seems pdftoppm doesn't like the .pdf.

Can you test pdfinfo.exe "full path to the problematic pdf" from a command line and sending me the output? (pdfinfo is in same path than FlyingCow/Project1.exe)

New version (....-with-better-pdf-support.rar, see first post) should stop showing error message (but won't let you read the pdf, so the problem persists anyway).

Actually I used your latest ver and run all the exe ( pdfinfo.exe and pdftoppm.exe) stil got that warn,and I found this file "pdftppm.exe.stckdump" inside Flying Cow folder,thank's

[Leonhart]

Oh my god this program will be totally awesome, I can't wait to see the final version

Leon

[bowlandspoon]

awsome looking program!

will be keeping a watchful eye!

congrats!

[z-x]

Great app! What techniques you used, and which programming language (is it Delphi?). I must admitt is works great (what it'll be good to see is some anti-aliasign on borders).

Always wanted to make my own replacement for explorer - it was hard to do?

[GameBoyzGB]

Very nice. Great job so far

[matonga]

z-x;481444 said:

Great app! What techniques you used, and which programming language (is it Delphi?). I must admitt is works great (what it'll be good to see is some anti-aliasign on borders).

Always wanted to make my own replacement for explorer - it was hard to do?

Yes, you may bet it is hard to do and to mantain :S

Yes I'm using Delphi 5 (quite old nowadays).

For OpenGL I'm using dglOpenGL:
http://wiki.delphigl...p/DGLOpenGL.pas

For GIF support I'm using TGIFImage v2.2 by Anders Melanders:
http://www.torry.net/pages.php?id=102 (scroll down, find the one by Anders)

For PNG support I'm using TPNGImage:
http://pngdelphi.sourceforge.net/

For video previewing, I'm using DSPack:
http://www.progdigy....php?name=DSPack

I don't know what you mean by technique... structured code versus object oriented?

In such case, the program is more object oriented.

Delphi creates some classes: TApplication, TForm (window).

Flying Cow has it's own class: TFlyingCow, and a rendering thread TFlyingCowRenderThread, that's why the animation is so smooth even when it is loading files in background (mostly noticeable in a dual/quad core cpu, as the thread will run mostly in one core and loading in the other).

Then we have these abstract classes:

TPreview
TPlayablePreview (for videos, music, etc...)
TMultiPagePreview (for PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, etc...)

Then we have implementations of those classes:

abstract TPreview -> TPicturePreview (bmps, jpegs, ...), TVideoPreview (avis, mpegs, ...), TPDFPreview (pdfs)

abstract TPlayablePreview -> TPlayableVideoPreview (TVideoPreview)

abstract TMultiPagePreview -> TMultiPagePDFPreview (TPDFPreview)

So, for example, when you look at a video, you are really looking at an instance of type TPreview, more precisely an instance of TVideoPreview (polymorphism).

Then, the TPreview class has defined a isPlayable( ) method, the TVideoPreview implementation returns True in that method's implementation, so when the user clicks the video to play it, TFlyingCow calls TPreview.getPlayablePreview(...) : TPlayablePreview and it gets an instance of TPlayableVideoPreview (polymorphism again) which in turn sends a stream of images (the video being played) to TFlyingCow.

I'm considering releasing the sources of this after reorganizing the code a bit.

Oh I almost forgot, for PDF previewing I'm using a CygWin port of a Linux tool (yeah, kinda messy) called xpdf, stripped down to pdfinfo, pdftoppm, cygwin runtimes, freetype library, type1 library and 14 ghostscript fonts.

[Husaini HB]

Can you add another codec,i.e:.mov,.m4v,.flv,you know that movie files are more and more popular now,please,appreciated,thank's,looking forward

[spyro94]

Wow, I'm very impressed. Could you have it look like Leopard finder? I don't imagine that would be too hard, would it? (I have no idea..)

If you can have it integrate into explorer that would be amazing.

[beef]

I have been waiting for something like this for awhile. Great job, keep up the good work.