[matonga]

Hi, this is a new app I'm writing. It draws a focus border as in Mac OS X.


Focusin XP applying a focus border in run dialog combobox.


Latest release:

FocusinXP-2009-01-25.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2009-01-25.rar


Older releases

http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2009-01-22.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2009-01-19.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2009-01-16.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2009-01-02.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2008-12-31.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2008-12-15.rar
http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/Fo...-2008-11-27.rar

[Björn]

Very cool. Looking astonishing for the time of work.

[kftrainer]

There was v animator but I had it and eventually it stopped working it has not been updated -so I am excited that you are doing this Cant wait!

[yorkey]

Looks good so far, can't wait for it to be done!

[d-lab]

I havent understand what u are making but, every ur work are great.

[firecracker6]

This is great news Matonga! I loooved Vaminator and was sad to see development stopped. Matonga, please try his app just to see what it was like.. if you have a problem finding it, let me know and I'll dig up a copy.

[Panta]

Nice addition mate! I'll eagerly follow its unfolding! ^-^/

[matonga]

firecracker6;515520 said:

This is great news Matonga! I loooved Vaminator and was sad to see development stopped. Matonga, please try his app just to see what it was like.. if you have a problem finding it, let me know and I'll dig up a copy.

I got vanim.zip from... can't remember (googling).

It looks pretty interesting.

I'm trying to achieve the halo effect shown in V Animator, but not only with textboxes, I've also done halo effects for buttons, comboboxes, checkboxes, radiobuttons, etc...

The halo effect will be skinnable, in the sense of having different skins for different visual styles, wb skins or whatever. The skin I've done is for LeopardXP visual style (not sure which one... maybe this one: http://nobodyuse.deviantart.com/art/Leopar...-Style-81776516)

I'm not working in animated progress bars by now.

[matonga]

Just wanted to tell I solved the double-click issue.

Now apps receive double-clicks as expected.

[Raats]

matonga;515723 said:

Just wanted to tell I solved the double-click issue.

Now apps receive double-clicks as expected.

Wow..! Good on you mate. I'll watch this with great interest.

Cheers for sharing

[ArchDevil]

it is fully working on my mod of leopard msstyle
waiting with crossed fingers
thank you for all your efforts on this and stacksdocklet

[Björn]

I cannot open anything with double-click.

[Sranshaft]

Love the Simpsons reference in the name. Looking forward to seeing what comes of this. Thar being said, get back to work on porting Flying Cow to C# already! lol

[matonga]

You're right about the Simpsons reference. It'd also be the diminutive of focus in spanish (in english it would be focuslet).

I'm almost finished with this one and hope to get back to FC and Stacks soon, with:

• Some lib for FlyingCow, C#, .dll or whatever.
  
• libstacks, a library for putting fans and grids in your apps (to be published in Developer's Hangout forum).
  
• rewrite of Stacks Docklet using libstacks instead.

[Björn]

K!MediaCenter?

[matonga]

Mmm... sorry to disappoint you, but I have no current plans on making anything on K! Media Center, further than an installer and optional integration with iTunes library.

[Björn]

Just using it as lot and missing some functions like fastforwart and that it gets you back to the place in the list, where you were insteat of at the top.

[firecracker6]

hey Matonga~ not to distract you from your cool projects, especially Focusin, but have you ever considered writing a plug-in for Songbird using your coverflow or front row stylization skills? I know there is already a coverflow like plug-in for Songbird, but it's not really up to snuff the last time I tried it out (a few months back.) But the idea would be to not just make a functionally smooth and fluid animated browser of music and video files of sorts, but rather, make it useful for library management and compatibility of formats as a priority! for instance:

~ Right Click files to: "Locate on Hard drive"
~ Selectable default programs to launch different filetypes.
~ Assignable graphics for: No Album Art, No Video Cover, etc.
~ Allow user to select a frame (within the video file) to use as the static cover image of said video file(s.)
~ Right Click to access meta-data editing, etc. (or a flip animation to edit on the back of the cover image, maybe?)

Anyways, you'd probably make a huge splash in the firefox/songbird community if you created something like this, and you seem to have much of the concepts implemented in some degree of completion

[wasko]

Focusin looks SO COOL!!! How is developing going? I'm really exited about this.

[matonga]

Ok, finished with Focusin XP. Now in beta stage (waiting for bug reports )

• Apps can be double-clicked (~ Bjorn).
  
• System tray icons can be double-clicked.
  
• Legacy apps can be optionally drawn non-square focus (disabled by default) (apps which doesn't have a .manifest file or Common-Controls 241 file resource dependency) (this option exists because WindowBlinds can optionally theme non-themed apps).
  
• Focus border updates when moving the window.
  
• Focus border updates when resizing the window.
  
• You can choose among different focus border Themes (in case you don't have LeopardXP theme installed).
  
• You can tell FocusinXP to start with Windows.

BTW, some comments about the way the program works:

Steps performed when focus border window moves/changes size:

1. Hide focus border.
2. Wait until the window stops changing position / size.
3. Show/update focus border.

This is done in purpose to avoid flickering. This is intended behavior. Don't ask me to update it real-time (unless, of course, someone hacks Windows GUI core apis, then I'd consider it... hahaha).