File Broswer Function

[Mackie]

I've been working on a file browser, so here is the alpha. It's not even in beta yet so bare with me. Basically you use 'Browser.GetPath' and it will return the path. The person selects in the pop-up window. I've just now, converted it into a function so it's pretty messy right now, there was a lot of workarounds happening. Optimization is coming.

Here's on my to-do list.

- Scroll Bar.
- Nicer GUI.
- Image Icon Compression.
- Image thumbnails, if file is supported. (Maybe)
- Optimize.
- Re-documentation.
- Drive selection.
- Start directory parameter.
- File type specification parameter.
- Hidden file show/hide option.

and some other stuff maybe. This i just a side project so development will probably be slower.

[Sean]

Mackie, if you ever need any assistance with some GUI, I can help, but I recommend not using

[Mackie]

Oh no I'm making my own GUI.

EDIT:
I forgot to mention the fact that. That you can use both the keys and mouse to control. But, repetition is frequent. So 1 click offen = 2 clicks. I haven't figured out how to slow it down yet, I'm working on it though.

[fishtastic]

Mackie @ Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:07 pm wrote:

I forgot to mention the fact that. That you can use both the keys and mouse to control. But, repetition is frequent. So 1 click offen = 2 clicks. I haven't figured out how to slow it down yet, I'm working on it though.

I had the same problem in my Turing TD and tetris.
In my TD, when the player clicks on upgrade, i only allowed one upgrade per mousedown.


what you do is make a variable call "canclick"

code:

if mousedown and canclick then dowhateveryouwant canclick = false else if mouseup then canclick = true

so the clicking will only be possible when the user release the mouse button and click again.

To limit the time between double click all you need to store the time of last click and find the difference.

edit: BTW this is a pretty interesting program. good work so far.

[Carey]

pretty sweet. I remember making a program like this a loooooong time ago. it was just text based though. you could still check it out if you want to. CLICK HERE. anyway good job so far. tip: make the browser window bigger

[Mackie]

Alright, well I planned on making a super awesome file browser that would blow everyone away... But, because of some limitations in Turing I wasn't able to do it as elegantly as I wanted to be. Dan and Saad suggested i move on to a more functional language. So, I'm moving to Ruby.

To the point of the post. I developed some nifty tools for easier design of the File Browser, so each as a standalone class, I give you Mackie's GUI, as far as I got that is.

All of these follow the same color scheme, and use only the color 111 (so the other colors are available for other classes and such.) Every one of them have the 3 stages of activity, idle, mouse-over, depressed(clicked).

They are all simple to use, and easy to customize. Here they are:

Note the menus (ButtonMenu, ClickMenu) auto-expand based on the size of the array you enter for name, and procedure to run. Every button, including the menu's are linked with a name, and a procedure to run on click.



Enjoy!

[Sean]

Nifty, but now you just need it to do something

[Prince Pwn]

Now I feel like a failure ;(

Jking. I love working on media players and file browsers, stuff that has to do with yer data and organizing it