Hi,

i've made a little upgrade to the BBIcons plugin, just to add some missing functions...
- Now extract small icon for small size... better result!
- Can define a path as shortcut (from menu)
- Can add a caption, with specific font, size & position (from menu, only size 32 and over)
- Caption Font options : Color, Italic, Underline, Stikeout, Orientation.
- Can change arguments from menu.
... and some minor changes ...
- Menu reorganization
- CTRL-RClick for menu now...

Here are some screenshots :
Menu : Result :

Things to come :
- Extract the closest icon of selected size (~55%)...
- Tooltip...
- 24px support (->crowmag) (~75%)
- Extract associated icon for non-EXE shortcuts (~75%)
- Option to remove borders (cthu1hu)

I'm submiting it only for test purpose, but comments and ideas are welcome...
I thank Tres'ni a lot for his excelent work
I'm french... that's why i write like this...
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[UPDATED VERSION TO 2.1 - Slit OK]

Great work! Now, if u could only add filters for more graphic formats... Kudos!

Haven't had the chance to check out the changes yet but as for my wish for future features: support for the 24x24 icon would be nice

Ok, it will be done (first post updated)... but do you think it's large enought to allow caption display?

K, had some little time to check it out. I noticed that, on icons that have a transparent area, the caption text appears in the color magic pink (225-000-255) in those areas. My guess is that it will appear in the color that was designated as transparent when the icon was made (the icons I'm using were either created or modified by myself in SnIco Edit and that is the color I used).

Actually this isn't so bad and can be made useful if one custom created icons for just this use. In fact, with the caption capability, you could just make an all white icon and put different captions on them.

It would be nice to be able to invert the text color tho so an all black icon could display white text.

hmmm... captions with 24x24 icons? Well, since my screen resolution is 1280x1024, I can't make the font size too small and still read it ~but~ a 3-4 character caption could still be useful and others running at lower resolutions could use smaller font sizes to get more characters.

I'm not really sure, others that use smaller res should comment (yes that means you the lurker who is reading this).

Wrapping the text would be ideal except that might make the code a bit more cumbersome - I understand.

Along the same lines (and probably with the same bloat problems), it would be kind of cool if a mouseover of the icon would pop up a balloon similar to Kana's BBBalloon:

http://nicht.s8.xrea.com/2005/02/BBBalloon

OK, so I'm asking a lot. I realize that keeping it simple is what it's all about but I couldn't help myself

Haven't had time to check it out for more than 30 seconds but it's looking good so far. However, support for beginPluginEx would be nice (and really simple to implement, send me an email and I'll explain).

BR//Karl -> qwilk

...btw, please note that a BBIcons command could also be a bro@m, and using a file requester prevents that (unless you edit the .rc directly of course).

BR//Karl -> qwilk

No, you should be able to type in bro@ms, when I wrote the alpha I made it so the files didn't have to exist. So if you type "@broam" into the file box it should accept it and move on.. Okay, so it's not the best solution, but it works

P.S. Excellent work! About time someone did something with BBIcons

What I'd like to see with BBIcons is an option to remove the border. It doesn't look good slitted with borders.

And also supporting PNG would be nice

.. and a single-click option

cthulhu > No problem for the 'Border' option, but i think 'single-click' option is already included (bbicons.dblclick: false in RC)...

I'm also working on a way to retrieve icons associated with non-EXE files (if you wanna make a link to a XLS file, it will display MsExcel icon...).

Minor : Menu title will display the icon caption (if defined).

I'll release the next version later today... stay tuned

(first post updated)

OK, i've finish the version, i've updated my first post with the ZIP file...

This new version incudes all Caption options, 24px icons support, and some minor modifications...

Comments and ideas are welcome.

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Wow ! That was fast!

Nice touch with the caption angle. It looks pretty cool and allows for more characters to boot.

Being able to pick any color for the caption text through the standard windows color picker is also a plus.

24x24px is working perfectly here In fact all is working smoothly AFAIK.

Nice upgrades to this plugin and a big Thanx !

Neat! Nice update. Always glad to see new functionality without discernable bloat. Hope you don't mind a few more suggestions:

Text color for captions should, IMO, pull their defaults from toolbar.button.picColor, to match BBIcon background colors taken from toolbar.button.color and toolbar.button.colorTo. That way, if I switch between different styles, I don't have to tool with the text color of every BBIcon I have on the desktop. Font type should probably also pull its default from the style file as well, unless overridden.

An option to provide extra space for captions would also be nice. Most icons I have interfere with my captions. Perhaps a halo around the text would be better, the inverted color of the text.

True support for larger icon sizes, without ugly stair-stepping effects, as well as different image formats, has already been mentioned. Not a high priority for me, as 32x32 is more than enough room for any thoughtfully-designed icon.

I got a bit excited at your screenshot, when I saw what looked like a pop-out menu extending wharf-style from an icon. Is anyone else interested in seeing this fuctionality?

Again, thanks a bunch for the time you put into this! The improvements you've already made are well appreciated!

--frog

I must admit... a wharf emulating plugin would kick so much ass. It'd sure beat taking the time to make the bbinterface script. ~snicker~ .. Yeah, so I'm lazy.. Heh.

BBInterface does it well, I don't see why it needs to be re-invented. It could be simplified by writing a script (in PHP or something) that, based on user input, could conjure up the code for the pseudo-wharf.

Oh, I'm not meaning to knock bbinterface or anything.. But yeah.. pouring through the scripts to get a nice little wharf setup and working to perfection is just so utterly abhorrent to me. ~l~