"Of The Bay"

[Emil Weiss]

Now Emil, you should see something...

yeah .. work fine now .

can you send me a registered version of GDImage.dll?
or must buy it

i think a good idea is move all icon from the taskbar in to 'of the bay'
then i have clean it

greets Emil

Edit:
have found a problem
when move any folder or File to another Folder (right mouse) when 'bar' active then i can not show the cursor
or the icon any more

[Patrice Terrier]

Emil,

GDImage is a commercial graphic toolkit as you can see it there.


The trial version is not time limited, and it allows you to try all the features of the Pro version without any other restriction than the nag screen.

It is a very versatile toolkit, and one of the very few able to work with VISTA in full composited mode.
It combines the best of GDI32+GDIPLUS+OpenGL.
The Carousel is a must try and the demo is available for plain Win32, C# managed, and WinDev.

You can also try PhotoComposer that is a pure GDImage project from 01men

 

[Patrice Terrier]

There are several new icon frames and backgrounds + subtile changes.

Latest ZIP file is attached to the first post of this thread.

 

[Patrice Terrier]

Petr, Dominique,

I heard you!

Here is "Of The Bay" version 1.20, with drag and drop and smooth scrolling.

• Drag and drop

Now you can start BassBox and MovieBox just as you did with the standard desktop icon.

• Smooth scrolling

Starts when the mouse hover either the left or right arrow, if you click on the arrow you scroll the content either from the start or to the end.

The new zip file is attached to the first post of this thread.


 

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Patrice,

good job!
Works well here, CPU usage still at 0 to 2%...


Petr

[Patrice Terrier]

Under request of Laurence Jackson,

I have added detection of embedded desktop subfolders:

FUNCTION ResolveShortcutName(zLnk AS ASCIIZ) AS STRING
    LOCAL sUseIcon AS STRING

    IF zLnk = ShortCutDisplayName(%CSIDL_BITBUCKET) THEN sUseIcon = "RecycleBin.png":             GOTO ExitLnk
    IF zLnk = ShortCutDisplayName(%CSIDL_DRIVES)    THEN sUseIcon = "MyComputer.png":             GOTO ExitLnk
    IF zLnk = ShortCutDisplayName(%CSIDL_NETWORK)   THEN sUseIcon = "NetworkNeighborhood.png":    GOTO ExitLnk
    IF zLnk = ShortCutDisplayName(%CSIDL_PERSONAL)  THEN sUseIcon = "MyDocuments.png":            GOTO ExitLnk
    IF zLnk = ShortCutDisplayName(%CSIDL_MYVIDEO)   THEN sUseIcon = "MyVideo.png":                GOTO ExitLnk
    IF zLnk = ShortCutDisplayName(%CSIDL_MYMUSIC)   THEN sUseIcon = "MyMusic.png":                GOTO ExitLnk
    IF (GetFileAttributes(FolderGet(%CSIDL_DESKTOP) + zLnk) AND 16) THEN sUseIcon = "Folder.png": GOTO ExitLnk
    EXIT FUNCTION

ExitLnk:
    FUNCTION = sUseIcon
END FUNCTION

The lattest ZIP project is attached to the first post of this thread.

[Laurence Jackson]

Great! Thank you!

[Patrice Terrier]

updated to version 1.22.

[Patrice Terrier]

Updated to version 1.23

[Emil Weiss]

Updated to version 1.23

fantastic work Patrice i love it..
one problem i have found
Dialog too deep

should be over the Bar.

greets Emil

[Patrice Terrier]

should be over the Bar.

That's another difference between XP and VISTA, i shall fix it in the next build.

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[Patrice Terrier]

I have been able to work arround the Microsoft bug that exists in all Windows version, when trying to set the location of a common FileOpen/FileSave dialog on a second monitor in multiple display mode.

You can't imagine what i had to do to solve this "simple" problem ...

By the way i have also added a new GDImage function named "ZI_CenterDialog" to center the dialog to the display instead of the default GDImage's parent window.

If ever you have a multiple display and a slower PC than mine, you can adjust in the main WndProc the dlgSleep parameter to a longer delay (millisecond), see below:

Code:

'   // This is to force a correct placement of the FileOpen/FileSave common dialog
'   // when using multiple display mode and working on the second display.
    STATIC dlgWnd, dlgX, dlgY AS LONG, dlgSleep AS DWORD
    IF dlgWnd THEN
       IF GetTickCount() > dlgSleep THEN
          CALL SetWindowPos(dlgWnd, dlgWnd, dlgX, dlgY, 0, 0, %SWP_NOZORDER OR %SWP_NOSIZE)
          dlgWnd = 0: dlgSleep = 0
       END IF
    END IF

    SELECT CASE LONG Msg

    CASE %ZM_CENTER_DIALOG
         dlgWnd = wParam: dlgX = LO(INTEGER, lParam): dlgY = HI(INTEGER, lParam)
         dlgSleep = GetTickCount() + 10 ' 100

[Patrice Terrier]

Updated to version 1.25

With new open/close WindowAnimate effect, and new icon text location.

By the way, did you see that somebody is sitting on the dock 

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[Patrice Terrier]

For those experiencing Doctor Watson on XP when closing "OfTheBay" using the AnimateWindow

Try changing

Code:

         CASE %IDM_CLOSE ' %ID_CLOSE
              CALL AnimateWindow(hWnd, 500, %AW_CENTER OR %AW_HIDE)
              CALL SendMessage(hWnd, %WM_CLOSE, 0, 0)

to this

Code:

         CASE %IDM_CLOSE ' %ID_CLOSE
              CALL AnimateWindow(hWnd, 500, %AW_CENTER OR %AW_HIDE)
              CALL apiSleep(500)
              CALL PostMessage(hWnd, %WM_CLOSE, 0, 0)

Other solution "move on to VISTA"... or remove AnimateWindow

[Patrice Terrier]

Version 1.30 is a major revision.

• The DockBar doesn't use anymore the WS_EX_TOPMOST style, to be less invasive.
• If the DockBar is dropped behind the taskbar, then it is moved just above it, to always enable the use of the popup contextual popup menu.
• If the Dockbar is hidden behind another window, clicking anywhere on the desktop will bring it up in the foreground.

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