schmrom Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Things it does: Giving you multiple desktops like on the mac. Compatibility: Requires .NET-Framework 2.0 at least Where to get it: http://www.schmrom.de/MySpaces.zip Current version: 0.9 Beta History: well no history yet Install: Unzip to any folder you want. Usage: Right-click on the taskbar-icon, there are some options. Win+Z shows overview @Matonga: to keep the style I copied your post, thanks Link to comment
Ojalord Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 It's working fine if I switch desktops directly through memy or by hotkey, but if I select "desktop overview" I get the screen in attachment. And it's using 35 MB of RAM. Still, considering this is too early for even an alpha build, it's a great idea and something that was needed. Keep the effort on! Edit: That white patch seems to be Avedesk... Link to comment
matonga Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 It works fine here. I have AveDesk and same problem here... @shmrom: Are you using PrintWindow( ) to snapshot the windows? Then you should avoid snapshotting layered windows, at least in Windows XP. I suppose you are using Visual Basic .NET for this, you should check for the WS_EX_LAYERED flag in the windows style, in unmanaged code is something like this: If (GetWindowLong (hwnd, WS_EXSTYLE) AND WS_EX_LAYERED) = 0 Then ' screenshot the window... End If GetWindowLong is from Windows API, I don't remember how to put this into .NET or maybe there is a Windows.Forms equivalent. Other than that, it runs ok in this machine. Edit: Oh, I forgot: congrats for this release! Link to comment
Leonhart Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Great Release, it's still beta but works fine, it miss some features of the original OS X Spaces like drag windows from a desktop to another, the indicator in the fast switch (Win+arrows) and an icon for the Desktopoverview. Leon Link to comment
matonga Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Oh wow!!! You can already switch with Win+arrows, I didn't know that I definitely love this app Link to comment
schmrom Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 @matonga: In Vista I am using DWM, XP I made screens... hmm what is the problem with layered windows?@Leonhart: You can move the windows from one to another Desktop in the overview (Win+Z) Link to comment
jakub.karasek Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 On my computer it's using 80mb of RAM, thats a lot. It looks great, but its not for me, I dont need it. But congratz, every aplication like this makes Windows closer to OSX. Thx to all developers Link to comment
Leonhart Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 @schmrom:not in XP Link to comment
schmrom Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 @Leonhart: Hmm interesting trying to fix this, on Vista its working Link to comment
matonga Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 @schmrom: The problem, in XP, with layered windows, is they appear as white rectangles instead. And happens what Ojalord told you, see his first post. I didn't know you where using DWM for Vista, layered windows should perform fine there (as long as you use DWM). But it would be good to avoid them at all in XP, if there isn't any way to capture their contents. Also the layered windows remained white after exiting Win+Z mode Link to comment
Larsen2k4 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Nice work schmrom - although it reminds me of the Vista Virtual Desktop Manager (http://www.codeplex.com/vdm) - did you use the source-code? (just wanna know ) Link to comment
schmrom Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 @Larsen2k4: No, I didn't but I used some ideas, because I am not very creative Englisch zu schreiben ist anstrengend -.- Link to comment
MacRulesWorld Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 is there a icon or docklet to add to objectdock to go to the screens preview menu? Link to comment
Leonhart Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 There is a feature in the Leopard Spaces, that if you drag the windows out of the screen it goes to the next desktop, so if i drag a window in the right corner of the screen and I keep dragging for about 2 second I will go to the next desktop, if I drago to the bottom corner instead of the right I'll go to the third desktop and so on, Sorry fo the bad english, I think that this feature in your program will be useful.Sorry for the bad englishLeon Link to comment
jive Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Like the concept. The implementation is very slow.... not much of a fan of the full screen effect. If I'm gonna use spaces, I want to be able to flip back and forth as quickly as possible. Link to comment
schmrom Posted January 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 @MacRulesWorld: No there is nothing like that now, maybe someone wants to create one?@Leonhart: Okay going to implement that when I have the time.Coming soon:- Switcher which is showing from where to where you are switching- Move Window to corner to move it to the next desktopSo school is starting in two days again, and I dont have much time, but I will keep working on it. Link to comment
jive Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 I wish it were possible to have a true spaces clone like mas osx. I've been searching for this for some time... Same window sizes, responce time transitions etc... Link to comment
MacRulesWorld Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 the file transfer implementation is great but I would like to get the preview capabilities I want it to be as much like leopard as possible! Link to comment
Levi- The perfectionist Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 woo... myspace!...ohh Link to comment
csongi Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Great app schmrom ,the window+z works a little bit slow but the rest is awesome. One suggestion: could you make that the movie to pause itself when I swich the window to another? Thanx again for this great app EDIT: and I dont want to eat 85Mb of my memory, can you fix that too, please? Link to comment
slicky Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Well, is it clone of VDM from CodePlex? Link to comment
schmrom Posted January 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Yeah its really like VDM, I also used some snippets out of VDM because I'm not the best in programming Link to comment
Fyton5 Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 my god! this totally rocks! really like it man! keep on improving this Good things: *WIN+arrow key switching really works good! (try to make that little popup screen (with that arrow) like in leopard) *no-setup! *preview works nice at 4 or 9 desktops *fading, really cool improvement ideas: *the background sometimes doesn't fit the amount of desktops *make a shortcut string for the switching (like "C:windowsprogram.exe" -deskswitch) handy for docks or shortcuts *let peeps choose the taskbar icon (like in leopard its a black icon with the number of the desk) *when u double click the spaces icon u should go to the overview bug list: *windows previews don't look good if they aren't on the current desk (don't know if this is also on xp :S) *the desktop backgrounds are sometimes out of place due to the amount of desktops greets fyton5! Link to comment
schmrom Posted January 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Sry, but the development is currently freezed, no time Link to comment
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