[release] Looca

Looca 1.99!

Features:

+ Search bar

+ Three different views

+ Customizable shortcut bar

+ Help file

+ Customizable title

+ Drag and drop

+ Right click menu

+ Doesn't use explorer (-> classic folder view)

+ Statusbar shows file count and free space

+ Delete button in search bar

+ Search bar works also as adress bar

+ Option to show/hide hidden files

+ Accepts start with arguments (looca.exe "C:\my folder")

+ New free-form skin engine: Allows free object placement

+ Skins use PNGs with alpha channel

+ Statusbar works exactly as in OS X

+ New skins (Brushed and Aqua)

+ Scrollbar in shortcut bar

+ Inactive button states

+ Mouse-down button states

+ 'Disbable thumbnails' menu item

+ Preferences and Skin Selector

+ WindowBlinds Skin

+ SHORTCUTBAR FOR 6-22 ITEMS!

+ Slow Column Browsing

+ Changable Font & Font-Size (-> skin.ini)

Download Looca1.99

Download Looca 1.7 (Without ColumnBrowsing but much faster)

Download Brushed Skin for WindowBlinds

Also check out BZeitler's Looca Skin Packages! You can find the links in this thread.

-----------------------How to edit shortcuts:-----------------------

Just right-click into an empty space of the folder view and

select 'Add new shortcut'. You can move and delete shortcuts

by right-clicking on the shortcut bar. The first 6 items can not

be deleted or moves but you can edit them by clicking on 'edit

main shortcuts'.

:rip:

#138839

Looks awesome, now find a good host so we can try this one

#138840

wow looks very good, looks very accurate

#138841

very beautiful!!! :woot:

#138844

Indeed.. nice

-Daxziz

#138851

Whoever releases another finder clone hasta call it YAFC (yet another finder clone)

Its not bad tho, cant wait to try it out.

#138857

[offtopic]

I don't want to ***** or anything but why are all finder clones just programmes that use explorer? It would be fairly easy for a tallented programmer to make an application that's stand alone, uses real preferences, toolbar,... and actually can handle the labeling without the html... I would do it but I'm not good enough (I could do it web-based... using PHP and a webserver... but that's not really usefull).

By the time Mac OS 11 will be launched I might know enough about programming to make some cool apps

#138869

Originally posted by Daanvanheel@Apr 3 2004, 03:41 PM

[offtopic]

I don't want to ***** or anything but why are all finder clones just programmes that use explorer? It would be fairly easy for a tallented programmer to make an application that's stand alone, uses real preferences, toolbar,... and actually can handle the labeling without the html... I would do it but I'm not good enough (I could do it web-based... using PHP and a webserver... but that's not really usefull).

By the time Mac OS 11 will be launched I might know enough about programming to make some cool apps

I love the way you say, 'it would be faily easy' as if anyone could just run off a perfect clone. Felix doesnt use the internet explorer control, but I'd suppose you wouldnt like it.

#138878

Originally posted by Daanvanheel@Apr 3 2004, 03:41 PM

[offtopic]

I don't want to ***** or anything but why are all finder clones just programmes that use explorer? It would be fairly easy for a tallented programmer to make an application that's stand alone, uses real preferences, toolbar,... and actually can handle the labeling without the html... I would do it but I'm not good enough (I could do it web-based... using PHP and a webserver... but that's not really usefull).

By the time Mac OS 11 will be launched I might know enough about programming to make some cool apps

Its amazing how easy it is to do somehting when you deligate work.

#138882

Excellent work man and thanks.

-Aviel.

#138885

amazing :woot: , wow now we have like 5 finder clones

#138886

I think you guys misunderstood me. It could be perfectly possible to read the folder, put all the filenames in an array, and, using the extension of the file, determinating what kind of image should be shown, placing the name under it and linking it to the file itself.

#138887

It would be fairly easy for a tallented programmer to make an application that's stand alone, uses real preferences, toolbar,... and actually can handle the labeling without the html

It involves quite a lot drawing routines and shell-stuff. Windows Shell coding is considered to be one of the hardest parts of Windows programming, especially when you don't do it on a professional basis.

I bet you didn't think of all the special, not physical-exsisting folders, like the Control Panel, My Connection folder etc... You can't do this with FindFirst/NextFile().

IShellFolder* root = { 0 };
GetDesktopFolder(root);

EnumIDList* enumList = { 0 };
root->EnumObjects(0,SHCONTF_FOLDERS | SHCONTF_NONFOLDERS | SHCONTF_INCLUDEHIDDEN,&enumList);

ITEMIDLIST* itemId = { 0 };
while( enumList->Next(1,&itemId,0) == S_OK )
{
   STRRET strRet;
   root->GetDisplayNameOf(itemId,SHGDN_FORPARSING,strRet);
   if(strRet.uType == STRRET_CSTR)
   {
        // parse the filename
   }
   else if(///etc... etc...
   {

   }
}

enumList->Release();
root->Release();

This is just a small codesnippet that iterates all files in the logical desktop folder.

That's other stuff than just put all the filenames in an array...

#138889

Yeah its fine until you put it in the context of an app that has to be functional and fast.

#138890

Lemme get back to you on that AFTER I finish my 5 years of programming at Uni

I could however try the webbased one... hmmzz *wonders*

#138892

i can host...lou_dude88@yahoo.com <--email

Lou

#138893

I can host. PM me

#138894

#138895

Originally posted by Daanvanheel@Apr 3 2004, 10:41 AM

[offtopic]

I don't want to ***** or anything but why are all finder clones just programmes that use explorer? It would be fairly easy for a tallented programmer to make an application that's stand alone, uses real preferences, toolbar,... and actually can handle the labeling without the html... I would do it but I'm not good enough (I could do it web-based... using PHP and a webserver... but that's not really usefull).

By the time Mac OS 11 will be launched I might know enough about programming to make some cool apps

dude, that is exactly what i've been sayin this whole time!

the only finder clone so far that doesnt run on explorer is felix.

#138913

Originally posted by bryantm3@Apr 3 2004, 10:40 PM

dude, that is exactly what i've been sayin this whole time!

the only finder clone so far that doesnt run on explorer is felix.

ok, who's got the cookie jar...

#138922

Originally posted by Daanvanheel@Apr 3 2004, 03:41 PM

[offtopic]

I don't want to ***** or anything but why are all finder clones just programmes that use explorer? It would be fairly easy for a tallented programmer to make an application that's stand alone, uses real preferences, toolbar,... and actually can handle the labeling without the html... I would do it but I'm not good enough (I could do it web-based... using PHP and a webserver... but that's not really usefull).

By the time Mac OS 11 will be launched I might know enough about programming to make some cool apps

#138933

Originally posted by TiG4@Apr 3 2004, 07:52 PM

Theres no need to get the kid into this He didnt explain himself clearly in his statement, thus leading to us misunderstanding him.

~alilm

#138936

Ya but as a developer yourself of another finder app you and i both know that is isnt exactly a piece of cake coding this stuff. And with smart --- remarks like that, it kinda pisses me off. So instead ofo raving on about it and getting myself banned, i figured I'd let the kid do the work for me.

#138938

Who is the kid anyway, he must be like famous nowthought?

Yeah I know what you mean but I genuinely beleive he didnt mean to piss us off.

#138940

Don;t let the naysayers get you guys down. the "competition" in this area is what is making the finder come along expecially well. You are all doing great work, and i dont think anyone of us truly thinks that it is easy work.

#138941