[Release] miniMIZE public beta (1.0.24)

Ok, so I am fairly happy with the stability of miniMIZE and have decided to offer a public beta, mainly because there was a fair amount of interest in miniMIZE, but also to try and get more people to help find any outstanding issues as well as to get some more ideas for the direction miniMIZE should be taking.

It shouldn't blow up your pc or cause you to loose data, but there are one or two small bugs still present. You have been warned and all other disclaimers etc apply.

You can get it here

The official forum for miniMIZE is here

And there is an irc channel on freenode setup - #minimize

You can also PM me here if you have any major pressing issues.

Thank-you for various help during development:

Andrew

Geo

kez

#313037

Thanks for sharing; I like the speed of your development. We're already on the 2nd release

I'm going to try it out now. Just out of curiousity, would you ever humour the idea of placing a minimize to desktop animation similar to rk's scale effect as an option in miniMIZE?

#313040

This worked for one window only, and only on the first time I ran it... Minimized my Explorer window beautifully, but didn't do anything with any other programs I opened and minimized. I thought it might need a re-start, which I did, and now it doesn't do anything at all. It's a nice idea - I wonder why it's not working for me. BTW, I also run TopDesk, in case that might have anything to do with it...

#313045

works like a champ!

2 suggestions (yes, i'll go ahead and register at your forum...): 1) would love to have my mini's be y'z shadow aware. 2) i currently use all2tray to keep my taskbar clean, but would love to have minimize handle that. more specifically, i'd like to see nothing in the notification areas. it don't need it.

anyways, this is awesome!!!!! thx!

edit: i just noticed that if i 'pin to top' there is a little shadow added. nice touch. instead of number 1, maybe add shadow customization...? hell, i don't ask for much!

#313052

Great little app! Also you may want to give an option on how you want the screen shots to be organised - horizontally or vertically or random!

Well done!

#313053

ok i installed it-but what does it do? or how to work it? i odnt know what im supposed to do

is this like expose?

#313054

Awesome

Really liking it, but I would like to have a dropshadow too. If you want, I can send you the code I use to create pretty dropshadows (instead of the CS_DROPSHADOW shadows, which don't work on childwindows / pin to dtop).

#313056

Nice I like it but how about removing it from the taskbar also.

#313061

Perhaps you could exchange code with raduking on getting the application removed from the taskbar?

This is AWESOME--I'm really looking forward to future development!

Really, a great job.

-NC

P.S: Along with fixing the Windows key + M bug, could you do the same thing for Windows key + D? Thanks

#313067

Works like a charm, I love it!!!

I will go ahead and jump on the "remove from taskbar" bandwagon though, definitely seems like a handy feature to have.

#313069

ok i installed it-but what does it do? or how to work it? i odnt know what im supposed to do

is this like expose?

You start the program and minimise some other programs, then look at your desktop to see the priddy new images!

Andreas, that sounds awesome! I know the shadows don't show when pinned to desktop and illumination was a bit miffed about that

It never shows up in my taskbar, not sure what'd be causing that! - just realised you were wanting it to remove programs from the taskbar, whoops!

#313071

Also Illumination, perhaps you could set up a "single click" option to restore windows in the future?

#313078

Great lil app

Fast, reasonable resources usage (6-8megs of RAM) and usefull.

As others have mentioned i would love to have the thumbnailed windows with shadow.

Also it would be great if we could set the "margins". For example minimized windows are covered with shadow from my taskbar and i have to move them by hand.

One thing i noticed is that "Place thumbnails on" option is greyed out. Is that on purpose or is it a bug?

Thanks for a great lil app

#313083

Very nifty

#313084

Echo what the Unbeliever is mentioned, this is a great proggy and see my MB numbers are similar on XP Pro.

Thanks for the release. A couple of things to bring out and i'll add them to your forum, would like to see a "diagonal" style overlap (steps) showing minimized windows if possible (very cool), did notice when changing size say to 200 instead of default 100 that setting revert back to default after closing. It's really worth pointing out this is a fine effort & appreciate it. It's also great to be able to adjust minimize window sizes, no minimalistic here so thanks bunches for that.

#313089

ah ha! another feature request (this one is a must): an exclusion list!! otherwise, still rockin'!!

#313141

Very look little app... great work. A little bug it doesn't seem to change to monitor 2 (strangely my Primary monitor is monitor 2) anyway once set is simply shows nothing. Exiting and restarting didn't help. Changing back to Monitor 1 and it worked fine.

Also option for single click to restore would be nice.

#313143

shmengie - an exclusion list is planned for later betas. Core functionallity was planned for this version, with more features to come in the future

#313176

Very cool application. Using it on my PC now.

My only request would be shadowed thumbnails...

#313178

Thanks for the response guys. I really appreciate the compliments

Sorry for the late reply, but I have had a busy weekend mixed with some internet troubles.

Ok, now to answer some of the questions, and thanks a stack to kez for helping out with some answers before I was able to get back here.

firecracker6 - I will add the minimize to desktop animation to the feature list, it's inclusion will just depend on complexity

manjusura - It is possible that TopDesk is interfering, I am not sure tho, because if it works for one window, it should work for all. Can you try exiting TopDesk and seeing if that helps and letting me know so I can know if I need to look into it some more.

shmengie - Yeah, shadows are currently working, but not if the thumbnails are pinned to the desktop. As for removing the notification icon, I'll add that as an option

farhan - I have more plans for positioning the thumbnails, just wanted to get core functionality out there. Will add your positioning requests to the feature list

AndreasV - thanks. I really appreciate the offer to help with shadows. I'll get hold of you on PM if that's ok.

nightcrawler1089, Ghostwalker - Removing the taskbar buttons was actually in the code, but it didn't work predictably enough, so I took it out. I looked at RKLauncher and I think I have an idea how to proceed, so that should be in the next version.

nightcrawler1089 - Win+D should work if you have the thumbnails are pinned to the desktop, or are you talking about making thumbnails for other non-minimized windows?

farhan - single click will be no problem, added it to the feature list.

Unbeliever - will add a margins feature to the positioning feature list. As for the "place thumbnails on" option, that is for multi-monitor support, so if you have more than one monitor and it is still greyed out, then it is a bug.

Mirror - Added requests to positioning feature list and I have managed to re-create the bug where it's not saving the thumbnail size, but I haven't managed to work out what it is doing yet, because it seems to be a release build only bug.

shmengie - As kez mentioned, exclusion list is planned for a future version.

lid - strange that the other monitor doesn't work for you. I'll see if I can recreate that. As for the monitor numbering, that is directly from windows, so it should match up with the numbering in the desktop settings panel. If not, it's a bug and I'll need to look into it.

Thanks again guys for the support, it really means a lot. I'll see if I can fix some bugs and release another beta as soon as I can.

#313188

No, I meant that pressing Win + D will also make apps miniMIZEd, instead of the normal behavior (I would add it as an option/feature, instead of built-in , b/c people may want to leave the Win + D key open to normal minimizing behavior).

Am I making any sense?

Thanks,

-NC

#313191

I like your app and I wanted to wish you good luck with the development. I was looking forward to MINt, and it's nice to have a follow-up !

#313195

Great App!

What if in the next release, the window has an animation as it minimizes to the desktop and when it restores? kinda like winFx but only that feature. also could you add an option to tell the app to create the minimized window icon within a certain area so that it doesnt get overlapped by the ObjectDock, Konfab, or the taskbar? Thx man!

#313252

Great cool App

there are two functions that i want you to add.

is it possible to display the window title caption on bottom of the thumbnail window?

like this --> http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2526/minimize1xd.png

second, i want to define the item icons by ini-file such as taskpicture by saqla.

icon = Microsoft Internet Explorer / ie.ico

icon = QCD / itunes.ico

sorry my bad english X(

#313283

not sure if anyone else has this problem with iTunes. if i have iTunes set to minimize to tray, when i minimize it the thumbnail shows up (like it should), but when i restore iTunes (double click on the thumbnail), i cannot get itunes to minimize again without going to the tray icon and clicking show itunes, then i can get it to minimize again, but the process starts all over again next time i restore iTunes.

so i guess exclusion list would fix this problem, but didnt know if it was a possible bug or if this might occur with any apps that minimize to tray

thunderbird works ok with the extension to minimize to tray.. so it might be just iTunes.

thanks for the spectacular release and keep up the outstanding work!

#313487