New Spotlight clone

[Phat-Liz0rd]

Testing it now!

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btw, older versions of spotlight leave some registry items after uninstalling. No big deal, but just wanted to point that out

[nusi9ns]

download it right now..

[Larsen2k4]

Very nice your new installer

[TomLapp420]

it better be nice for the price

[blankfaze]

great build, keeps getting better! is it just me that liked the old installer? haha maybe i was just used to it?

anyway-

guys, please donate! this is a great app, tom deserves some support!

[blulegend]

I just donated a few bucks. Thanks Tom.

[blulegend]

I can confirm that in showall, the image thumbnails are only showing a corner or part of the image whereas in the spotlight thing itself, you see the whole image in the thumbnail.

Also, the number of results seems to stay at 7.

[Saladin]

nice job with installshield.

The thumbnails in spotlight are like the explorer view. Its not a list with big thumbnails, but it goes horizontally as well. If we had the blue headers expanding groups one big scrollbar instead of small per-category ones, we'd be getting further to 1:1 emulation.

[Phat-Liz0rd]

Thanks for the installshield tom

Great release, only issue is the (already mentioned) thumbnail view. Great great great program, keep up with the FANTASTIC job you're doing here!

[Jammers]

This is wicked. However it lists my emails but won;t open them when i click - any idea why?

[firecracker6]

@Jammers, your question was addressed a few posts/pages back.

[blulegend]

Another thing: the searches fill up the Temporary Internet Files folder with xml search results. Maybe they should be deleted after each search or at the next search or at the next time the program is loaded.

[TomLapp420]

I will look into that temporary internet files thing.

I have completely ripped apart the show all dialog, I have to design it differently in order to get the one scrollbar all the way at the right side of the window. It's a very difficult process so it may take a while

[Saladin]

Thought I'd just point everyone to a useful tool for GDS:

TweakGDS: http://www.podsync.com/tweakgds.htm

TweakGDS allows you to change advanced, undocumented settings for Google Desktop Search, without having to dig around in the system registry yourself.

You can:

* Move your GDS index

* Change the drives that GDS indexes, including mapped network drives and attached (USB/Firewire) drives - even your iPod!

* Force a manual re-indexing of your drives at any time

* Schedule automatic re-indexing with Windows Task Scheduler and TweakGDS

I needed this after I deleted about 100GB of duplicate and junk files and found my search results useless. Hope it helps everyone else!

[TomLapp420]

I have decided to move this project up to Visual Studio .net. It should run alot smoother and more efficiently then. I just have to go and buy another copy because when I dug up my vs .net disks, they were broken.

I'll update everyone on the progress

[nusi9ns]

err..sorry to bother again, the new installer work perfect for me, but there is a problem i got.

I can't get a result, even i type an a. But if i use gds, there will be a result.

Is there something I miss?

please someone help me.

[Saladin]

woohoo! .NET!

if you need any help or want to work together, my speciality is .net

[TomLapp420]

you have to go into the spotlight preferences and follow the setup under the setup tab

either do a search and click on spotlight preferences at the bottom of the menu. Or right click the menut button and click preferences in the popup menu

[nusi9ns]

i did everything as u said, go to preferences, copy the address from GDS and so on.

the nice throbber, cancel button are appear but when i want to do a search and type something (example an a), it said no results found.

i'm stuck here. Is there something i could do, or install some application that required for this program to work?

[TomLapp420]

guess what everybody, I know this is off topic but I just figured out how to make a random wallpaper changer that transitions like osx. I just tested a quick throw together on my computer and it's awesome, it's just a little high on cpu usage when the transitioning is going on. When I get .net, I am going to rewrite it under that (since .net has way better transparency handling) and of course i'm going to import and recode spotlight in .net. It will be better because i noticed that the vb6 controls don't support as many image types as .net.

[sean.fletcher]

I'm sorry if this has already been brought up, but, how can I change the Menu (not menu button) picture? I want one that matches my theme...

[TomLapp420]

I will be adding that capability soon. Right now I am working on making the show all dialog 1:1. I have had a very hard time doing it, I found a control on the net that gives you scrollable frames (that I could use for the categories, making them all scroll together), but the scrollbar is not skin aware (which is not acceptable). So I am in the process of designing my own aqua scrollbar control to accompany it, so far it looks really great, I just have to add the scrollable frame part.. I am eventually going to move this to .net but I have to wait until I can afford it, I had it before but when I dug the disks up they were both broken. Maybe if I show Microsoft that I have a software license they would send me new ones for a small fee (probably not)

[Larsen2k4]

I'm really looking forward to the next release Tom

[TomLapp420]

me too, I just didnt realize how difficult it would be to create this scrollbar control, I have so many things going wrong with it. God I wish my .net cd's weren't broken

[Larsen2k4]

My the Compiler-Gods be with you