Re: Finder-like icon browser
Re: Finder-like icon browser
- Subject: Re: Finder-like icon browser
- From: John Blackburn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:10:28 -0700
I wrote one of these in PowerPlant several years ago. It supported all
the features you describeand don't forget Clean Up,
scriptability/recordability, efficient caching for large containers--and
turned out to be a lot of code. I was hoping this was already available
within Cocoa, but I'll have to see about porting much of previous work.
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Hm... A challenge for you: If you write an extensible icon view with
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all features the Finder provides (in-place label editing, keyboard
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control, multiple selections, dynamically resizable icons, etc) and
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release the source to it (LGPL, BSD, whatever), you'll get my respect
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(and I'm sure the respect of others, too) and I'll stop complaining
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about softlinks vs. aliases :-)
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andy