New File Manager Is Coming Soon

NOTE : Sorry for my bad english .... It isn't my primary language

Hi every body. I want to announce you that a new File Manager is Coming

AND FOR THE FIRST TIME........ NO .... IS IT NOT A FINDER CLONE....

I dont create it with the conventional method ( The explorer shell into an application ). I program it from A to Z.

Features :

--> Standalone ( One file only for app & One Config file)

--> .Net (1.1 Framework)

--> Detection of Filetype & icon applying from Filetype (maybe MIME later, now by *.ext) (These icons will be customizable)

--> Longhorn Like (Yes I know, but you will understand later)

( For those who thinks "Hey it is an apple related forum HERE", Yes!, but this is the best and helpful community for person that create application (not only skins)! )

--> MAYBE Open source

--> Detail information of files

--> Transparency & Shadow support

-->Custom icons for Partition, Drive, Folder, Filetype, Other...

--> Actions sidebar (On/Off) homemade with "Real Actions" like

|--> Copy to...

|--> Move to...

|--> Create shortcut to...

|--> Batch Rename ... (is possible)

|--> Delete ... (By extensions, By Filetype (Image,Movie))

|--> etc...

--> More features to come

I ask the questions

"What do you want to see in a file manager"

"Do you have new actions to put in Actions sidebar"

"With feature is required for everyday use and not an Eye Candy Use"

Thanks for comments & All Ideas are welcome Post-It

Preview at : http://kryptos.znap.to/

#178160

An idea: ad a poll, if or if not

IMO this sounds great and I really want have this (and maybe skin this)

#178163

hi! i would like:

functionality of the finder in Mac OS X Panther including the sliding-panel browsing without taking up too much memory, like NeXplorer does.

#178165

heheheh... :naughty:

#178166

The real problem is that Not too much memory is not possible...

Because of .net... A simple TextBox in a form (Window) take 8 meg ram !

Imagine !

#178172

what a weird looking poll!!! 50/50

#178194

CURRENT STATE OF THE APPLICATION

LEGEND :

[built OK !] : Feature created and final

[Knowledge] : Leaning complete & Should be made in next day...

Features that are completed :

--> Shadow effect engine (Complete Alpha blendind like winamp skin !) [built OK !]

--> Folder and file Browsing engine (should be the must important !) [Knowledge]

--> Dragging windows [built OK !]

--> Transparency [Knowledge]

Next Step :

--> Create a skin in photoshop (in construction)

--> Create a method to resize the window

My next posts will be in work day probably tuesday (monday = programming)... my hearth is with my grilfriend the weekend... no computer !!!

I promess a preview next week !

#178451

:lol: Open Source! :lol:

With that scam that happend a while back I don't recomend you do that. Any old ***** could take your source and slap thier name on it. And sell it. And there goes all your hard work and effort. Speed not a concren for me. But I would like it as stable as possible. And Please try to make it as stand alone from explorer as possible. Cause I really don't think it's nice to fidle to much with the registry. I reformated my hd 3times this week! I'm not about to do it agian! lol, I will be glad to do skins for you. My e-mail is baby_papi_chulo@hotmail.com and I'm currently signed in to MSN messenger and plan to be till 4 in the morning (i'm in NewYork Eastern Time Zone) so we can talk. All I need is the defualt skin and a pic of the skin assembled. It will be fine in either a PhotoShop mock-up or as a real screenie. I work pretty fast so If you give me the stuff today I will have like 3 or 4 skins by next week depending on how complicated and user friendly your application is. Oh and By Longhorn Like do you mean with the transitions? If so HELL YEAH!!!!!!!! I currently have the longhon look for XP so that would be lovely. Or any other type of Longhorn add-ons would be GREATLY appriciated. Also I would like the app to become semi-transparent when inactive. If all that is done then I'm honestly going to die! And pray that development continues.

BTW, please don't waste your time making it like OS X's finder! There are enough of those out and it's getting wierd.. Also thier aren't that many good coders out (me being one of them) willing to take time out to work on a great application like this might become. So please don't focus to much attention on the Mac finder stuff. Nexplorer is the BEST and will probablly be the best forever considering the amount of time that Vneumann has put into his project. Oh and thanks for reading all that stuff I wrote! :lol: I hope your project becomes a great success and my best wishes go out to your project. It sounds very promissng! :naughty:

#178457

Originally posted by elapointe@Jun 18 2004, 01:55 PM
My next posts will be in work day probably tuesday (monday = programming)... my hearth is with my grilfriend the weekend... no computer !!!

i like you already, anyone who understands a REAL relationship is more important than computers gets my support.

keep up the good work, and i hope u can take a little crap because unfortunately alot of that goes on here :rant: , and if u get any trouble just give us a yell :staffs here: .

-The Unknown

#178490

Originally posted by theunknown@Jun 18 2004, 07:00 AM
hope u can take a little crap because unfortunately alot of that goes on here :rant:

Was that about me, or about what I said? I didn't do anything worng, did I??

#178497

Originally posted by babypapichulo@Jun 18 2004, 05:12 PM
Was that about me, or about what I said? I didn't do anything worng, did I??

not at all... sry if u got the wrong impressions >. .

-The Unknown

#178503

Originally posted by elapointe@Jun 17 2004, 03:12 PM
The real problem is that Not too much memory is not possible...

Because of .net... A simple TextBox in a form (Window) take 8 meg ram !

Imagine !

:blink: What do you mean? :blink:

For instance: Orbit (by Menge) and PowderCleaner (by me) make heavy use of graphical stuff, but don't take more than the framework requisites...

If what you say was true, my program would have to use approximately 196 - 215 mb of ram!

#178528

Sound very, very good... just the part of 1.1 .Net is no good... for some reason .Net lags my computer... keep asking for login on start up (even if my PC has just one user) and things like this... last time i installed it, my PC taked almos 5 minutes to boot.

#178542

For instance: Orbit (by Menge) and PowderCleaner (by me) make heavy use of graphical stuff, but don't take more than the framework requisites...
If what you say was true, my program would have to use approximately 196 - 215 mb of ram!

Each .net application need a minimal of ~8meg of ram. [On my comtuper ... ;( it is maybe the problem !!!!]

Try that : A simple textbox

Public Class Form1

Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Public Sub New()

MyBase.New()

InitializeComponent()

End Sub

Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)

If disposing Then

If Not (components Is Nothing) Then

components.Dispose()

End If

MyBase.Dispose(disposing)

End Sub

Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

Friend WithEvents TextBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Private Sub InitializeComponent()

Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Me.SuspendLayout()

Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(32, 16)

Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"

Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 0

Me.TextBox1.Text = "TextBox1"

Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)

Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 273)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)

Me.Name = "Form1"

Me.Text = "Form1"

Me.ResumeLayout(False)

End Sub

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Me.TextBox1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill

End Sub

End Class

#178579

:blink:

Your actually going thru with the open source....Well it's your project. I can't control you.

But (god forbid) something does happen I will be there to say.....I told you so. JK

Since it will be open source you really don't need to worry about peoples requests. Cause (like me) If they wanted something they can just do it themselves.

I know when this is done I will be filddling with it. But I wont release it or SELL it like others might. I'l just give it more Longhorn attributes. :naughty:

This is awsome man.

not at all... sry if u got the wrong impressions 11.gif .

i meant the "RELEASE IT NOW" posts and the "DO IT MY WAY" posts. if u have something constructive to add please do... just dont nag wink.gif .

Oh. Well in this case I'm sorry for missunderstanding. And you get a "YAY" from me!

#178651

This is not my project code... it is only a windows form with a textbox...

I dont know someone who will sell it !!!

I tought a lot about the "open-sourceness" of my project...

The code will not be released, but method for being more expansible ( for skin by example) will be created ( probably in second release )

Have a nice weekend..

next BIG update on tuesday

PS EVERYBODY SHOULD CONTINUE TO POST IDEAS. SOME WILL BE KEPT AND OTHER REJECTED

I have a todo list that is growing with all ideas, each idea has a comment

-First release

-Second release or MAYBE

-Canceled / Rejected

-Replaced by ...

With the first release, each feature will be explained and rejected & canceled features with be justified.

#178661

Originally posted by elapointe@Jun 18 2004, 05:33 PM
This is not my project code... it is only a windows form with a textbox...

#178663

Originally posted by elapointe@Jun 18 2004, 02:21 PM
Each .net application need a minimal of ~8meg of ram. [On my comtuper ... ;( it is maybe the problem !!!!] ...

Yeah, it's obviously: if you will use a framework, the framework will be stored in memory...

Since you're a programmer, you would to be more precisest, in front of the technology that you want to use.

A good application coded in C# and .net, with many graphical stuff, it would use the same ( o little more ) ram than that one that you've posted (with only a textbox on a form).

As you've said, a simple (nothing against, you're all our fuel ) user, would understand that a form with 10 textboxes, will use 64mb of memory, isn't true!

So, my friend, be more precise and clear, or your work will be refused directly from start, by many "frightening" people.

Cheers people!

#179800

I made a decision about NOT Shadowing my application.

Because of many of yours want speed, i decided to not include alpha blending shadowing to my first release.

I think that many people already have yz' shadow !

I try it this morning.. It's a lot of ressource and my application will often be maximized !!!

Alpha transparency of form (window) in Vb.net GDI+ do not use hardware aceleration...So it is very laggy and slower, And i don't want to learn Directx ddraw now or an other language !!! ... maybe later !!!

I probably post pictures tonight or tomorow of my prototype

Good day!!

PS : I never said that there was a proportionnal relation about content and memory use

The real problem is that Not too much memory is not possible...
Because of .net... A simple TextBox in a form (Window) take 8 meg ram !

I only think that 8 meg for text box is VERY high if we conpare with other language

Sorry for misunderstanding

#179909

I think this app could be very successful

Idea: Try to make it with individual placing for the aredas (I mean: you can drop the boxes and Icons were you want in the app-window) - don't know if that's possible, but it would be cool -really :naughty: :rolleyes: :lol: