Plug-in

I guess no one will be interested in that, as we are all waiting for Moby's next miracle dock, but I wanted to share my new project with you.

I've been working on a little program-mobydock plug-in that will...

open a pop-up window with a folder's items when clicked (using shortpopup.exe)

open the folder when Shift-clicked

copy items to the folder if you drag items to its icon

move items if you hold Shift when dragging

Half of the work is done. Just wanted to gather any suggestions form you. Will let you know once it's finished.

Have a nice day!

Ken

#20950

I suggest that you make the button configurations configurable. That way you could have a regular click open it and a shift click popup this window. Also, is there a reason shift click will be for dragging and not just a regular click?

#20951

Dragging items all over Windows, either copy or move these items (depends on whether the target is on the same drive or not). Shift-Drag ensures moving and Ctrl-Drag ensures copying. I try to make my program behave in a similar way.

#20952

Can you make it with start docking point to the top edge of the MD icon (even is not focused)?

Sorry for my bad english

#20954

huh?

I didn't undestand... can you explain a bit more?

#20967

Excuse me : I heaven't ask you my first question first...

your plugin is a popup menu like OSX dock's menus, or a GUIless plugin?

If the first case: when the menu appears, its starting corner (or point) it's "dockked" to the edge of the icon selected, or to the mouse position?

Tankz

Note: I hope you have understood me

#20971

It's a program without a GUI at all... you just place an icon for the program in mobydock and it either opens a pop-up menu above the icon (using shortpopup.exe, a separate program), an explorer window or perform certain actions (move or copy files).

#20974

thanks Ken.

One futher information: what's the language?

#20978

Visual Basic.

I still haven't found out though how to move/copy a whole folder

#20979

Just as a point of interest, the next release of MobyDock is supposed to do all of those things. It sounds like a great idea but maybe your time would be better spent working on something new?

I don't mean to diss your app I just thought I'd tell you that in case you didn't know. If I'm wrong in thinking Moby's going to add those features then by all means go to it! But I'm pretty sure I read a thread on this board showing what's new in the next version and all of those things were listed.

#20980

I know, I know... and the timing is awful, too... just a few days before the release of new dock

Just wanted to refresh my programming skills a little.

Thanks for the info, jonez!

#20981

Ken, I've dicided to search a method to resolve your issue (if I can).

If the new MD release have already these functions, well !! (Jeff, I can't wait )

But your app can be useful in other ways, no?

So, listen:

have you try only with FileCopy function?

Or whit API access too?

#20986

Trying FileCopy, shell to the Move.exe function, and API calls (checking them right now... haven't found yet something that will allow for transfering multiple files at once.

#20990

I think we are all awaiting the new MobyDock, but this is very interesting as well! Sounds like a great idea

#20997

Hello Ken

As jONEz said these features (copy and move files to mobydock item folders) are already present in the new MobyDock version.

If everything goes well the next version should be released this week. Maybe you can find a way to let the user see subfolders contents trought the menus since Mobydock only shows the first directory level contents. This will only be implemented in a future release as well as some other features that Moby has in mind.

Hope this info helps...

Cheers,

Mikegraphik

#21007

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

that suggestion sounds cool, will it be possible?

#21078

ShortPopUp is a cool little program that does it for you... needs a little configuration but it's worth it

#21219