Flying Cow

Is this yours?

http://vsdigital.deviantart.com/art/VSDesk...set=25#comments

No, it's not mine. I tried to download it, but couldn't :(

The author is from... Cordoba, Argentina? Hahaha! Good to know another argentinian is doing this kind of stuff! :)

Oh by the way, new version shows text below the preview, and has antialiasing (will be uploaded soon).

Has anyone tested it in a multimonitor setup? (say, put the window spanned through the two monitors and try see if it keeps scrolling smooth).

#481703

I've already ask you to add another popular movie files such as .mov,.flv,.m4v

How,do I edit the music player ini file,I hope you will read everyone comment/ask question,thank's,appreciated

#481714

That really is a shame regarding Cubic Desktop. :( I hope one day you'll be able to get back to it as I was really looking forward to see where you took it. It was a great piece of software even for it being alpha / beta.

Good luck on this project and I wish you many successes with it!

#481719

Will you be able to integrate this in windows explorer or will this be impossible?

#481745

@Husaini HB:

Current supported video formats are the same as supported by Windows Media Player, as I'm using DirectShow. But I restricted them to .avi, .mpeg and .wmv, it should support .mov with the correct codecs but gave me a lot of headaches so it is not included.

I really want to support those formats, but it is too complicated and can't figure how to do it yet.

The only option I'm trying to figure out is somehow use VLC Lan Player to decode videos.

Edit: I forgot: to edit MusicDesktop.ini, just double-click on it. If this doesn't work, open a Notepad and drag and drop the file onto it.

@Björn:

I don't know how to integrate this into Windows Explorer :(

Maybe I can make a Finder clone instead? I'll need help with that as I don't own a Mac :)

#481749

Ok,maybe you can add another movie files,thank's

{{UPDATE}}

The new ver is more stable,but I got this warn when opened pdf file,thank's

what do you use to take your desktop screenshots?????

#481751

Here's an article discussing how to add band objects (toolbars, etc) to Explorer. It's in C#, I wasn't able to find anything in Delphi, but hopefully it might shed some light and point you in the right direction.

Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and Windows Forms

Edit: Here are some more links that are in Delphi. They look like they might be a little old but they should be helpful, nonetheless.

http://www.bsalsa.com/ie_tools_band_obj.html

http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_2950.asp?SK=

http://www.delphifr.com/code.aspx?ID=21741

http://www.plugins-soft.com/demos.html#iebar

#481752

Here's an article discussing how to add band objects (toolbars, etc) to Explorer. It's in C#, I wasn't able to find anything in Delphi, but hopefully it might shed some light and point you in the right direction.

Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and Windows Forms

do you have a website

#481753

Sorry, what do you mean by 'Do you have a website'? If you're asking whether or not I have a personal website for myself and my projects, no I don't. If you're asking if there's a website for that particular article, the title of the article is the link to the website.

#481754

Here's an article discussing (...)

Wow!!! Let's see:

Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and Windows Forms

100% useful. It's in C#, but it uses COM and interop, so it's kinda very useful to understand Band Objects (I didn't know they had that name).

http://www.bsalsa.com/ie_tools_band_obj.html good, but horribly implemented (IMHO). I'll try to do a better implementation of this. As Flying Cow is open source (re-read first post, edited minutes ago) it will include such thing if I can do it.

http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_2950.asp?SK= not too useful, explains how to install a band object but not how to write one.

http://www.delphifr.com/code.aspx?ID=21741 talks about the www.bsalsa.com example mentioned above. Edit: oh, it includes some bugfixes to the original code...

http://www.plugins-soft.com/demos.html#iebar this link seems broken.

I must say: Sranshaft: thanks for all this information! :D This is really appreciated and I now have some more lots of stuff to do, such as determine how to get the currently selected file (so as to scroll to it in the Flying Cow band object).

#481763

Anything to help mate! It's a pleasure to see such fine work, especially when it's free and open. Besides, anything to see this integrated into Explorer is well worth the effort! Now if only I knew Delphi... hehe

#481765

Sranshaft:

I found this:

Implementing a Folder View

What do you think?

If I understood this document, the user would be able to choose between Miniatures, Mosaics, Icons, List, Details (sorry if misnamed any of them, I have a spanish Windows) and now Flying Cow...

Edit: Me ignorant, hahah, I read about folder views (IShellView), it seems to have nothing to do with what I was talking about... :(

#481775

Woohoo

Maybe the FindeXer author may know lots of how to implement in explorer.

#481776

what do you use to take your desktop screenshots?????

On your keyboard just press "Print Scrn SysRq" key,open Paint-->Edit-->Paste--Save as

#481794

Do these help at all?

http://www.ddj.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184402922 - code is in C++ but it should show you how to format the SendMessage call.

And this is the MSDN page regarding FM_GETFILESEL - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774185.aspx

This should do what you're looking for. It will return the currently selected items in the active file manager (Explorer) window. Using this, you should be able to manipulate however you want. I'm still looking for a way to change the selected item but I'm sure it'll be a SendMessage call.

#481796

hey matonga~ this guy has been doing some really interesting things with extending the functionality of explorer, please take a look, especially at QTTabbar, maybe it will provide some inspiration for explorer integration?

http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/Quizo/freeware/indexEn.html

#481797

On your keyboard just press "Print Scrn SysRq" key,open Paint-->Edit-->Paste--Save as

it didnt work

#481804

Well,it should be work,that is the key function for it,"Print Scrn SysRq",try to change/find out in another keyboard or Computers,good luck

#481835

@macfak3r

on german keyboards "Druck" right from F12.

#481843

This is just fantastic! :D

And I'm really looking forward to the task switcher...

What really is great about Flying Cow and Cubic Dektop is their speed and smoothness!

Finally some Compiz like apps on Win which not only look good but are also fast enough to be really usable. :)

Great work!

#481850

To macfak3r : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...22122529AAEfeN4

Google it,ok

thnx i got it to work

#481853

This is really impressive. Thanks for this wonder.

#481857

Anytime I try to visualize a video with an avi extension I get a Big Red X. It doesn´t matter if the video is a divx or xvid.

When I initialize Flying Cow trying to preview some videos the first fotogram of each movie is displayed for a second in an "Activemovie Window" but as a result I get only a Big Red X.

Any solution?

By the way mpg works perfect !!!

#482312

Anytime I try to visualize a video with an avi extension I get a Big Red X. (...) trying to preview some videos the first fotogram of each movie is displayed for a second in an "Activemovie Window" (...)

Are you using FFDShow as codec? I had problems with that. You know you are using FFDShow if a icon labeled "FF" appears in the system tray while you play a video in Media Player.

For the ActiveMovie window, I saw that in another computer but can't reproduce the problem in my own PC :(

It would help me a lot if you can tell me what codecs you installed for Xvid / Divx.

#482330