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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: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:42:07 +0200

On Friday, October 12, 2001, at 09:03 , Ondra Cada wrote:

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",

that was the original objective

then I am willing to bet real money I'll make the thing under 2000 lines.

Taking?

Hm... A challenge for you: If you write an extensible icon view with all features the Finder provides (in-place label editing, keyboard control, multiple selections, dynamically resizable icons, etc) and release the source to it (LGPL, BSD, whatever), you'll get my respect (and I'm sure the respect of others, too) and I'll stop complaining about softlinks vs. aliases :-)

andy
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Discussion forthcoming.


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