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Re: Finder-like icon browser
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Re: Finder-like icon browser


  • Subject: Re: Finder-like icon browser
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:03:58 +0100

Andreas,

>>>>>> Andreas Monitzer (AM) wrote at Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:38:36 +0200:
AM> >Does a browser class exist which emulates the Finder's icon view? This
AM> >browser would support arbitrarily placed and sized cells.

AM> No. And I know of one person that tried to do it and gave up after 8000
AM> lines of Objective C-code (see macnn forum, if the old posts are still up
AM> there - the thread was called "Don't like the finder? - Write a new one!"
AM> or something like that).

Ouch?!?

If there is no hook like "I didn't mean just the view, but a complete
full-featured Finder replacement", then I am willing to bet real money I'll
make the thing under 2000 lines.

Taking?
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Ondra Cada
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