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Originally posted by RusMac@Jan 25 2004, 12:24 PM

hmmm... too buggy  :cry:

Works great for me.

Only the light background and jaggy corners bugs me (I want 1:1, pretty please?), other than that, it's great. Oh, and the memory usage bugs me a little, okay a lot, but it won't keep me from using this.

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Okay.

Here it is some news from the new design state of Switcer:

Switcher 2 features:

- Reduced memory usage

I redesigned the memory handling of Switcher and this causes

that I'll keep Switcher under the 10MB dream-limit... ...maybe.

- Skinable

I created skin engine for Switcer to handle PNG images it's skin.

So, the background and the "highlighted" item's background is

skinable from now.

This feature solves your smoothing problem at the corners.

- Correct font support

Switcher can use TrueType fonts and Type1 fonts from the new

release. This means Switcher supports our fonts like LucidaMAC,

LucidaMACBold or OBFont.

- ICO and PNG support

Switcher can able to use .PNG and .ICO images to display your

favorite application's image as you customized.

Lot of our images are stored only in ICO or only in PNG format.

Now Switcher support both of them.

- Correct screensize handling

This means, if you have a lot of applications are running, more

than that are able to visible on the screen in one line, Swither 2

will recalculates the size of the used images.

Mad Mike working on a configurator application for Switcher 2 to support your themes of Switcher's skin and help your applicationsList.ini editing.

;)

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Mad_Mike

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Yes, it will display multiple IE/Explorer windows.

Also, FeAt is allowing you to use PNGs and ICOs from any folder, so you can just keep your Dock PNGs in the Dock folder and use them from there. (Y) (My program will let you browse for PNG/ICO images so you don't have to type in those long paths.)

Another new feature is that you can have it show one iTunes image when you have a "Panther" Switcher theme loaded, and show a different iTunes image when you choose a "Milk" theme. Switcher will be able to fit in very well with any theme you use.

FeAt will make everyone very happy! :D Just wait and see.

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TwiceBlessed

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Trully amazing that you have implemented that many features :rolleyes:.

Still I would suggest to add some of them left unused before the release date ... if possible of course:

1.) Fixed amount of items shown at the same time (e.g. 4 items) or more optional variant to manually set the quantity of items listed in Switcher. I think it is much better than seeing a lot of tasks floating around. The hidden tasks could be indicated with an arrows at the both sides of switcher and as you progress through your switcher bar you will see all of them eventually.

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3.) Key combination Alt+Shift+Tab is not implemented  though it is available in the original windows switcher.

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6.) When Alt+Tab is pressed and held on for a certain amount of seconds the program stays on top without holding main button sequence (you can still browse through it by pressing Tab only) and disappear when Alt button is activated again.

Eagerly waiting to see you final work,

TwiceBlessed

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FeAt

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to TwiceBlessed:

OK, your No 3. (Shift+Alt+Tab) will implemented I think that is not question, :P

but I think the No 6. is a little bit ununderstable for the user at the first some usage >.< , because the user con not understand why and when stays Switcher on the screen.

No 1. is interesting, I'll thinking about it, but not in this time. :shy: This is a typical feature request and I think it is not part of the main features. ...otherwise I think too, it is an interesting feature and in the future release I'll implementing it.

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OK, your No 3. (Shift+Alt+Tab) will implemented I think that is not question, 

but I think the No 6. is a little bit ununderstable for the user at the first some usage  , because the user con not understand why and when stays Switcher on the screen.

No 1. is interesting, I'll thinking about it, but not in this time.  This is a typical feature request and I think it is not part of the main features. ...otherwise I think too, it is an interesting feature and in the future release I'll implementing it.

Nice to hear that. As I said before eagerly waiting to see this applicatoin in action.

Thanks for you time and great work, FeAt. (Y)

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FeAt

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Hi,

As you know I write Switcher in my free time and in this month (February) I worked a lot on abroad without my developer computer. :-( ...and in this time the developing of Switcer was paused.

But now it'll continue... I'm at home.

Switcher 2

coming soon...

:rock:

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IngeneerMind

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dude, i know and you know i do not want to bother you , but, dude you know as well i`m one of your biggest fan here, think you have done a good job with this app, but i`m almost falling down from my seat cuz i do really want to see your MASTER PIECE !!! but you haven`t told us about it . tell us something dude !! and keep it up man ! :canadian:

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Stevie BM

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Originally posted by Duckie@Mar 12 2004, 09:41 AM

have you considered using DirectX for this?

might be faster than .Net

DirectX and .Net are two completely different things.

Also, you can use DirectX in .Net (as menge does with orbit, for example).

The problem, in this case, is most likely GDI (which is what DirectX would replace), or poor usage of .Net.

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Duckie

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Originally posted by Stevie BM@Mar 12 2004, 05:51 AM

DirectX and .Net are two completely different things.

Also, you can use DirectX in .Net (as menge does with orbit, for example).

The problem, in this case, is most likely GDI (which is what DirectX would replace), or poor usage of .Net.

but with DirectX, he would have solve3d that early transparency issue.

Also, would the core of this app need that much changing to accomodate DirectX enhancements?

If not, I think maybe it would help the slow rendering.

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