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elestel
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Plugin to list files in the folder

Post by elestel »

I incidentally read the post http://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1375 a few days ago.
I am not sure I fully understand what they are talking about, but it sounds kind of fun to have a tiny file manager inside Rainmeter.
After some coding I have a plugin/skin to list the files in the folder:
http://www.mirimo.org/home/rainmeter/filelistplugin
Click a folder will go into it, and click a file will run it.




I am stuck in multi-select and scrolling so the plugin has very little practical usage now. However I think I could use it as a dock alternative once the icon is functional.
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Nice work elestel! Could I use this to display just the file count or the size?
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I will await patiently to see where this goes.

Excellence again Elestel-Sama
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Fantastic!! This could potentially unlock so much more potential in Rainmeter!!

Kudos :]
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elestel
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The icon and file size is functional, but still find no good way to scroll...
http://www.mirimo.org/FileListPlugin-win32_2009-09-30.zip
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elestel wrote:The icon and file size is functional, but still find no good way to scroll...
http://www.mirimo.org/FileListPlugin-win32_2009-09-30.zip
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elestel wrote:[...]
Click a folder will go into it, and click a file will run it.
[...]
;)
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Yelleke
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time to make a directory with all kind of shortcuts, makes a new sort of start menu
this goes into my skin as a dropdownmenu on my taskbar right under "HD C values"

nice work
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Samus Aran
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"but still find no good way to scroll..."

Did you mean that you don't know how to code it, or do you mean you don't know a method to scroll, but know how to code it?
I would suggest that you add a little (maybe customizable) scrollbar left of the file-list to scroll through the files ;)
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If a scrollbar is not possible maybe you could add a setting to display X number of items, then use bangs to display next or previous X number of items.

Another suggestion I have is filtering by filetype, so if you only wanted to show say mp3s and not albumart.