I have a great idea for a Finder clone!!!

I read something on the internet that said you can create your own custom bars in explorer, like the Yahoo! explorer bar. You can create left panel, lower panel, or top panel bars all at once, or one at a time. It says you can use flash which is awesome!!! I don't know flash but I know you can do some sick stuff. I'm sure someone could figure out how to allow the bars to interact with the explorer file view. We could create our own custom back, forward, etc buttons!!! This could yet end up being the best finder clone, skinnable by Windowblinds or msstyles, objectbar menu support, and completely stable

Let me know if anyone has any thoughts

#233611

perhaps you could tell us where you read this and it would help.

// Lou

#233613

Sounds like great news Tom

Provide us with a linkie and I'm pretty sure someone will figure something out.

#233614

Sounds good, but would it slow down explorer noticeably?

If people were to use this as a Finder clone, they would probably go for speed first. There are several other finder clones out there that are pretty good 1:1 matches, so an explorer finder (not one based off of, but an actual modded explorer) would have to distinguish itself in some way.

-NC

#233616

Link to explorer bar maker

the wonderful thing about this is it shouldn't slow down explorer at all, explorer is made to do this kind of thing. It's the same way the search panel is done. It supports html, flash, or just a picture file.

I haven't been able to get this program to install on my computer, it freezes. Maybe someone else will have better luck

#233630

Blah, full version $100.

-NC

#233634

I'm sure there's a direct way to do it, without using software (registry?)

#233635

Great idea, too bad it's 100 box...

Is it possible with the free version?

I've seen there is also a free version...

#233641

It's too steep to use it simply for customization purposes, me thinks... :slant: