After I release a new ViGlance build next month to fix the minor issues people are having with the new build - I will be turning my attention to another project and developing that for a while. At this stage; I am pleased with ViStart's current stability and ViGlance's current stability and I would primarily be focusing on new features for these products (if I were to develop them). However the other projects which are collecting dust such as ViSplore and ViOrb need stability improvements. ViOrb still operates on a hooking mechanism which I decided last year isn't viable (For those unaware - hooking means to literally hack another process and catch the information it receives and process them in your application (Imagine having a mail forwarding on your inbox - It would surely take longer for the messages to get forwarded). ViSplore currently doesn't add anything new (other than breadcrumb toolbar) to Explorer and it still doesn't replace the default explorer correctly. Whilst eye-candy is everything to some users - functionality is more important to me - Eye candy comes after in my opinion. As a user of my own software on my XP machine; I appreciate the new functionality it brings more so than how 'pretty' it looks. I still love a pretty face though. So this is what you can expect;
ViStart- Right click for windows related objects in ViStart (folders, shortcut files)
- Better and more efficient file indexing & WDS/Vista/7 integration
- A means of blur without DWM (Aka Blur on XP)
ViGlance- Skinned jumplists so that they are more like 7
- A close button on the Windows
- Layout.xml to customize skin options such as font color and layout of basic elements
ViSplore- Better shell integration with Windows
- Add custom left-side treeview component for browsing folders (Like 7 and Vista already have)
- Search Integration with ViStart OR WDS integration
Also there is a new Project which I am considering developing (Completely unlike the previous projects) which some people may already have an idea what this might be. The new project will be to provide a framework in the form of a scripting language (Based on JScript) where other developers can effortlessly create similar projects to my projects. Eventually to the point it would be possible to re-create projects similar to what i've developed (But with little effort).
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Comment by Aaron7pm -September 03 2010 @ 05:32 pm
I believe he was having troubles with Viglance on Vista, not having the Jumplist.
Comment by Rainoffire -September 03 2010 @ 05:50 pm
yes it doesnt work on mine, im hoping that the new release with skinned jumplist will fix it, i got vista home basic if that matters
Comment by jonnyboy11 -September 03 2010 @ 11:32 pm
The jumplist was tested on my Vista. My Vista is a 64bit Business. Not sure if the registries that pull up the jumplist is different on other versions of Vista.
Comment by Rainoffire -September 04 2010 @ 05:07 am
I just tested it on Vista 32bit, jumplist doesn't work.
Comment by link6155 -September 04 2010 @ 01:18 pm
Yeah so I was right! The bug still persists!.
Comment by Aaron7pm -September 04 2010 @ 01:28 pm
I just tested it on my Vista 32bit Homme Premium, and the jumplist works on it.
Not sure on what is happening. During testing, it wasn't working for both of my Vista's. Lee will require registry entries to fix this problem.
Comment by Rainoffire -September 04 2010 @ 09:38 pm
Comment by reyzilp -September 05 2010 @ 06:36 am
My Priority List:
1. [ViStart] Support Windows Key Shortcuts <-- my proposition
http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/key/
all these key shortcuts are most common key shortcuts, but only <win> and <alt>+<tab> work after ViStart started
2. [ViStart] Merge ViOrb with ViStart <-- my suggestion
3. [ViGlance] A close button on the Windows <-- also on your list
4. [ViStart] Bug
1. lauch ViStart, (ViGlance or ViOrb)
2. exit (ViGlance or ViOrb)
3. the windows start button back
1. input letters in ViStart Start Search Bar
2. if there's no items match with the input text, the program/back button got focus auto
1. when the vistart menu popup, start search bar doesn't got focus by default, but you can press any key to focus on it
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my suggestion is,
for ViStart, fix bugs and focus on integration
for ViGlance, fix bugs and focus on new feature
5. [ViSplore] Better shell integration with Windows <-- this will make ViSplore popular
6. [ViStart] Better and more efficient file indexing & WDS/Vista/7 integration
7. [ViGlance] Skinned jumplists so that they are more like 7
8. [ViSplore] Search Integration with ViStart OR WDS integration
9. [ViStart] Right click for windows related objects in ViStart (folders, shortcut files)
by the way, after i updated ViStart to 7, the start button turn into windows 7 size.
however, it cause an annoy issue.
i installed a useful plug-in on firefox called measureit, and it's launch button just upon the start button.
then you can imagine most of the time i try to click the launch button but the start button was clicked.
so please, keep the start button having same height with the taskbar.
cheers
Comment by jueljust -September 05 2010 @ 12:23 pm
very good and accurate post @ juel just. I fully agree on your first points, fixing vistart is the top issue.
I'd add the windows command support for the search field as a top priority, which was mentioned by enfant terible.
Comment by randyrandalf -September 06 2010 @ 08:09 am