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Welcome, vNeumann (=von Neumann, as in turing machine?)

my 2 cents:

1. I appreciate your usage of WTL. Felt like the only coder using it on this board. Again, welcome.

2. I have some experience, resources & links for owner drawn List view controls with WTL (for PNGs, colored/bitmapped labels as in AveDesk) I could forward info or implement a derived list view class or enhance your implementation. Interested?

3. While mixing WTL and GDI+, why not reuse/import the image associations of OD or MD?

4. I guess you use the WTL::CDialogResize() class that flickers badly. Someone at codeproject has added a workaround recently.

5. If you didn't already, derive your Dialog class from WTL::CThemeImpl<>, and on XP you'll have MSStyles support already.

6. Best resources ever on WTL are found at Bjarke Viksoe's hp.

hth & wkr

herd

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kerin

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lol you're right it was still running... i have trouble with it and ABC, even if i exit them, the process is still running, i didn't take care of it sorry :P i sould have check this before

no more flicking when MD is (completely) unlaunched :)

I'm trying skinning but it seems that BMP must be fixed size isn't it?? 27*27, 27*50 and 27*82... this might be a good thing to improve it when you add PNG transparency support ;) hehe

Thank you all

some things more:

- The icon of the app may not be well handeled by windows (the default application icon is displayed in the app and on Alt+Tab)

- I got a strange black border on top when i launch NeXplorer, and when i resize it it's gone... :(

realy good work!!!

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Felix

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I think ive found something that fixes the blurry and jaggyness of the Icons in shorcut bar

After dropping the shorcut, edit it and select the icon again, the icon will look properly now, I suspect that the problem was that it was reading from the shell32, and when I set up the icon again, I didnt setted up from the shell, but yes from my Icons folder

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kemenaran

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Your finder clone is fantastic, the best and fastest i've ever seen. You're a good coder, man !

But, as some people have reported, i can't display any of the shortcuts in the side bar. they doesn't display and doesn't work, but I can drag/drop and edit them. Quite strange.

And (long bug report list, sorry :) )

-the app-icon is never well displayed

-with yzshadow, the shadow is one-pixel right and up misplaced, but by roll-uroll it (winroll) or minimize-maximize it the shadow displays properly.

Again, GREAT JOB !

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liquidbrain

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I´ve tried to refresh icons as someone post before, but it looks still blurry.

The weird thing was when i use some original Apple OSX icon (from Some Pack). Those icons looks perfect! But this is not important because PNG will be supported on the future.

nexplorer.jpg

Other thing would be to change the font, because Type1 fonts looks to bold and too pixelated.

Nothing else by now

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vneumann

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Hello guys,

Wow! I'm surprised that so many people liked my work and thank you all for your opinions and bug reports.

I think I have to be clear about one thing.

I am a beginning Windows programmer though I have some experience in mathematical and scientific computing. I am nowhere near the programming gurus like Andreas and Alilm.

I appreciate your opinions about the features that should be added but some of them require complete revision of the code so I can't guarantee them.

I will try my best to make this small program become more stable and more usable but please don't get your hopes up too high.

A small revision with bug fixes and some added features will follow soon.

Thank you again guys.

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bzeitler

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Originally posted by vneumann@Apr 6 2004, 12:22 PM

Hello guys,

Wow! I'm surprised that so many people liked my work and thank you all for your opinions and bug reports.

I think I have to be clear about one thing.

I am a beginning Windows programmer though I have some experience in mathematical and scientific computing. I am nowhere near the programming gurus like Andreas and Alilm.

I appreciate your opinions about the features that should be added but some of them require complete revision of the code so I can't guarantee them.

I will try my best to make this small program become more stable and more usable but please don't get your hopes up too high.

A small revision with bug fixes and some added features will follow soon.

Thank you again guys.

Your app is really great...

Do you have any idea what could be causing the mobydock conflict?

Thanks in advance!

BZeitler (Y)

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vneumann

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Originally posted by herd@Apr 6 2004, 12:16 PM

Welcome, vNeumann (=von Neumann, as in turing machine?)

my 2 cents:

1. I appreciate your usage of WTL. Felt like the only coder using it on this board. Again, welcome.

2. I have some experience, resources & links for owner drawn List view controls with WTL (for PNGs, colored/bitmapped labels as in AveDesk) I could forward info or implement a derived list view class or enhance your implementation. Interested?

3. While mixing WTL and GDI+, why not reuse/import the image associations of OD or MD?

4. I guess you use the WTL::CDialogResize() class that flickers badly. Someone at codeproject has added a workaround recently.

5. If you didn't already, derive your Dialog class from WTL::CThemeImpl<>, and on XP you'll have MSStyles support already.

6. Best resources ever on WTL are found at Bjarke Viksoe's hp.

hth & wkr

herd

Yeah my login name comes from von Neumann. I have an utmost respect for him.

Anyway, I am glad that I meet someone who also uses WTL. WTL rocks in terms of performance and no dependence on other libraries but lack of documentations is really painful.

If you can provided me with some owner drawn list view templates that would be awesome. I have been planning to implement color labels using a custom list view control.

I don't understand what you mean by the image association of OD. I don't use either dock (I use y'z dock)

I also know that flickering comes from CDialogResize. If I use WS_CLIPCHILDREN style flickering significantly decreases but transparent area underneath bitmap controls are not drawn. I guess it can be solved with PNG support probably.

Just checked Viksoe's site. It has incredbile resources for programmers. Thanks a lot man.

Just let me know how to contact you.

KK

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MDZ61384

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Originally posted by vneumann@Apr 6 2004, 12:22 PM

Hello guys,

Wow! I'm surprised that so many people liked my work and thank you all for your opinions and bug reports.

I think I have to be clear about one thing.

I am a beginning Windows programmer though I have some experience in mathematical and scientific computing. I am nowhere near the programming gurus like Andreas and Alilm.

I appreciate your opinions about the features that should be added but some of them require complete revision of the code so I can't guarantee them.

I will try my best to make this small program become more stable and more usable but please don't get your hopes up too high.

A small revision with bug fixes and some added features will follow soon.

Thank you again guys.

Perhaps Alilm/Andreas can consult with you on how to implement some of the suggestions people have asked for? Or you could give your suggestions to them?

Honestly, I hate to be a pain in the you-know-what, but if any two of the 6 finder developers so far got together and put their heads together, it would be amazing what we could come up with. Each finder so far has so much promise and each have their own individual strengths...as a community I think it would be the best for all of us if this could happen. I'd offer my own services, but my own C++ knowledge is nowhere near yours (website coding is a tad better). I guess it comes a time we all have to ask ourselves what is the best for our community...wouldn't this be it?

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this. Anyway, good luck to you and thanks for making such a great app so far :)

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vneumann

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Originally posted by bzeitler@Apr 6 2004, 05:47 PM

Your app is really great...

Do you have any idea what could be causing the mobydock conflict?

Thanks in advance!

BZeitler (Y)

:( Sorry I have no idea until I talk to the developer of MobyDock.

Maybe Moby dock uses a function that hooks(snatches) some shell messages but I don't know what it would be.

I hope someone with seriouse shell coding experience will answer your question.

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jesaja

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Hei!

This is my first post here :rolleyes: ...

First of all: WOW, :woot: - the screenshot and the description of this app really rocks - but *sigh* as a few other things, it doesnt run on my computer...

I'm running Win 2k on a P3-500 Notebook with ... well, 128Mb Ram :dunno: .

I'll try to attach a screenshot... the errormessage means sth like "the Procedurecall (procedure jump-in-point ?) 'SHParseDisplayName' wasn't found in the DLL 'Shell32.dll'...

Is it because I use W2k and all others XP (NeXPlorer)???

Also my PC doesnt like (doesn't know/recognize) the .pfb - Fontfile... and the other one looks... err .. a bit crappy on my computer... :rolleyes: (does so know a solution here?)

Well, would be really cool if someone has an idea, I'd love to use that finder, all the others use so much resources, my comp just slows down too much to work properly...

Sincerely

jojo *sigh*

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kerin

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ok i made some more test about the bug with MobyDock and i know when the refresh process happen:

It happen when you mouseover en item and that after 3 second a tooltip is displayed (for example on a folder it display the folder size and number of items)

Just after the tooltip appear, it window is refreshed.

I tried to sniff the message sent at this moment but i'm not used to Spy++ and i can't manage to have something clean and i can't manage to make it log in a text file!!!

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mentaleruptions

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Originally posted by vneumann@Apr 5 2004, 12:33 PM

I am also looking for someone else to host it for me. My website has a small daily bandwidth.

Thank you guys. Hope you guys find it useful.

I can host this for u if u want for about a week or so. Ive got 6 gigs on bandwidth a month and im only using about half a gig while my site is being redone so i can spare some space if your interested.

I cant give you ftp access but by all means i can host the file :rolleyes:

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