Beautiful!

Excellent - done!

BR//Karl -> qwilk

Feature request - quote from the xoblite bb2 changes.txt (see http://xoblite.net/docs/changes_bb2.txt):


...something for BBIcons 2.06 perhaps?

BR//Karl -> qwilk

PS. The default icon size for a drag'n'drop-created icon could either be the 32x32 pixels Windows default, or the same as the first or the latest created BBIcon.

OK qwilk... i register that feature request

I'll take a look on how to do it, and probably include it in next release...

... still working on it ...

.... about the BB_DRAGTODESKTOP message, this is a 'Drag' message, not a 'Drop' message, so i think you will need to press a key to create the new icon while draging a file over the desktop...

To other devs : I'm i right? Actually i do something like that :

I didn't found anything to create the icon on 'mouse_button_up', because if the mouse button is released, i don't receive the BB_DRAGTODESKTOP message anymore... can any dev confirm it... or if you have any ideas...

I'm also working on specific CD-ROM functions :
- Any icon pointing to a drive root (ie: 'd:\', 'f:\') will be definable as a 'CD-ROM Manager'... if this option is checked, the icon will have 2 pictures depending on CD presence on the drive, and a command to eject the drive...

[NEXT VERSION IN PROGESS... STAY TUNED]

What you might have to do is while dragging over it the plugin, detect the drag parameter eg. the filename. Cache it, store it in a string. If the plugin then detects a mouseup, then it will use that little string containing the filename or other info.

That's the way I'd do it with the info you gave here, there may be a simpler way.

Hope I helped a little at least.

Why not...

But if i do like that, i'll only be able to detect the 'MOUSE_UP' event if it occurs over an existing icon... because the BB_DRAGTODESKTOP message is relayed by the blackbox desktop... and it doesn't relay 'MOUSE_UP' event...

Hello again,

here i am with a new version...

What's new?
- Drag to desktop : You can now add a new icon by pressing the 'return' key while dragging a file or folder to the desktop.
- CD-ROM functions : As i said before, when an Icon points to a drive root (ie: 'd:\', 'f:\'), you have a new menu called 'CD-ROM' that allows you to define this icon as a CD-ROM drive icon (by checking 'Manage as CD-ROM'), and then have some specific functions for this icon :
-----> Open CD-ROM : it opens the drive (eject the media), in the menu or by [SHIFT]-Right Click on the icon
-----> Define Empty Icon : Choose an Icon to display when the cdrom drive is empty (when a disk is in the drive, normal icon is displayed)

Here is how this new menu looks :


Todo :
- Find a coolest way to directly drop the file on the desktop to create the new icon... [please help]
- Autodetect if the 'drive root' icon points to an optical drive [almost done]
- Add a command to close the cd-rom drive. [almost done]
- Rewrite the CD-ROM menu to something like 'Optical drive'-->'Eject...' [easy]
- Expand the 'CD-ROM' functions to removable medias (USB keys, External drives...)
- When 'DropToDesktop' & 'CD-ROM' commands will be finished, update the helpfile & example RC to releas the plugin...

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I love you.

Err...

No, but thank you. BBIcons is right up there with BBInterface in my list of plugins I love!

Kudos, psy4... One more excellent job... And I hope u got my e-mails...

Wow... that's just... wow.

Now I feel silly for dumping BBIcons in favor of using BBInterface for all my 32x32 px application launching buttons.

I can't believe, that after all this time, I want to try another BBIcons build!

Psy4: You may want to look at the BBInterface source code as this plugin already supports drag to desktop (which may of course interfere with BBIcons, so you should probably consider adding a toggling bool for the feature in the global settings for BBIcons and possibly also BBInterface).

BR//Karl -> qwilk

elricfate, pitkon, Xavier-DL > Thx for these feedbacks, I did not expect that it would be so tender... thx for it.

Qwilk > I'll take a look at BBInterface code, and see if i can do the same...


One more thing, i've seen that when this version of BBIcons is slitted or inserted into BBInterface the '[SHIFT] Right-click thingy doesen't work, anyone know if i can register BBInterface to forward this command to BBIcons... any advice would be welcome.

Saa ya!

i first tried out both bbinterface and bbicons205b to see the differences, everything worked out fine. when i loaded bbicons206 nothing showed up on the desktop. i even tried out putting in the following in the rc file as REVEREND suggested to aryan in http://www.lostinthebox.com/viewtopic.php?t=134&postorder=asc&start=15

bbicons.transparency.enabled: false
bbicons.transparency.level: 60
bbicons.dblclick: false
bbicons.snapicons: false
bbicons.snapicons.distance: 8
bbicons.icon1.cmd: c:\windows\explorer.exe
bbicons.icon1.arguments: /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
bbicons.icon1.ico: c:\windows\explorer.exe
bbicons.icon1.size: medium
bbicons.icon1.caption:
bbicons.icon1.captionfont: nu
bbicons.icon1.captionsize: 8
bbicons.icon1.captionweight: 0
bbicons.icon1.caption.display: 0
bbicons.icon1.caption.italic: 0
bbicons.icon1.caption.under: 0
bbicons.icon1.caption.strike: 0
bbicons.icon1.caption.angle: 0
bbicons.icon1.caption.color: 0
bbicons.icon1.x: 2
bbicons.icon1.y: 2
bbicons.icon1.alwaysontop: false
bbicons.icon1.snapwindow: false
bbicons.icon1.transback: false
bbicons.icon1.inslit: true

i even tried changing medium to 32 but nothing happens.

as soon as i unload then reload bbicons the code dissapears.

what gives?

Only thing I can see is:
Do you have the slit plugin loaded?
Does bbIcons path stament in plugins.rc begin with an "&"?
Is the slit set to autohide in blackbox.rc?: