File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

[Bob Warren]

Dear Sivakatirswami,

If you are working with MAC, the stacks wouldn't do you much good at the 
moment. This is on account of the fact that the Mac file system is 
vastly different from the Windows one. My plan is to convert the Windows 
XP version to Linux first, and I anticipate that this might cause me a 
considerable amount of work. But I possess a Linux machine and I can do 
the job. Thereafter, conversion to the Mac file system should be easier, 
but I cannot do it myself because I do not have a Macintosh computer. 
Nor am I likely to acquire one in the near future. Even the $500 Mac 
Mini costs about 3 times the US price here in Brazil, not only in 
general practice but also according to the manufacturer's recommendation!

So if a MAC version is eventually to see the light of day, somebody else 
would have to do the conversion (from the proposed Linux version).

The standalone widgets for Windows XP are free, and I have no commercial 
ambitions. Nor do I intend to commercailise the proposed Linux and Mac 
versions. Also, I hope to become progressively more involved in Linux, 
which suggests the appropriateness of "open source" and such. However, 
what concerns me is that these widgets should be available to the RR 
community and that they should work reliably. At the moment, I am 
entirely responsible for their reliability. Once I allow all and sundry 
to muck about with my stacks, I can no longer be responsible for them.

Whether or not, or at what point, I will make the widget stacks 
available to the RR community is still an open question though. I may 
change my mind in the future. Regarding the MAC version, which I am 
unable to achieve myself (unless you buy me a computer), I would prefer 
to pass on the future Linux version to a single individual or body for 
conversion. This way, responsibility would be strictly limited and, 
hopefully, a more reliable result would be achieved.

On top of what I have said, I would also like to point out that these 
stacks are far from trivial. At first sight, one would think that such 
widgets should be simple. In fact, they are quite complex, and it took 
me months to write them. (Of course, I have very little experience in 
Rev, so I am prepared to believe that another programmer might be able 
to produce better widgets in a much more efficient way. However, for 
some reason, nobody appears to have done it so far, and I wonder if it 
might have something to do with the complexity of the task, among other 
things.) With the Linux version ready, I would be quite happy to pass 
the stacks across to the RR team for conversion to MAC. However, 
adapting someone else's complicated program is a daunting task, even for 
the experts on the RR team, and anyway they are busy people. Somehow, I 
can't see it happening.

Regards,
Bob

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Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Mac user here: OSX. I work with images on a daily basis, 20 days a  
> month, so I'm always interested in tools. basically I have three  
> little apps that load pix, preview pix, allow re-naming files in the  
> directory, re-order, build html around them set captions etc. and  
> would always like to see more handlers in this vein as my own tool  
> set I consider relatively primitive.
>
> Why not just post the app as a stack? then anyone of us on any  
> platform can test it? Or are you going for commercial--and therefore  
> need to keep the code locked  up?
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
>> Dear Windows XP Users,
>>
>> I have produced 2 standalone widgets for the selection of files or  
>> pictures (with preview). They are free, and you can use them as you  
>> wish.
>>
>> To download the demo pack, please navigate to:-
>>
>> http://www.howsoft.com/downloads/runrev/
>>
>> - where you will find the file:
>>
>> RunRev_Chooser_Widgets_DEMO_PACK_1.zip
>>
>> This ZIP archive contains a readme file which gives full  
>> instructions for use and testing.
>>
>> My real intention is to produce similar widgets for Linux, but I  
>> thought it would be easier to do a Windows XP version first to gain  
>> experience, since I am more familar with Windows. I will be working  
>> on the Linux versions as of now.
>>
>> Once the similar Linux versions have been produced, I will almost  
>> certainly beautify the widgets in #2, allowing the user to include  
>> his own background image and perhaps using little pictures for the  
>> HD tree nodes instead of the symbols "+" and "--" that I have used  
>> in #1.
>>
>> Thereafter, if the demand exists, we can look into the problem of  
>> producing versions for MAC - facilitated by the existence of the  
>> Linux versions. Unfortunately, I don't possess a Macintosh  computer, 
>> nor am I likely to on account of their very high price in  Brazil. 
>> But first things first, let's see if you think the widgets  are worth 
>> developing further!
>>
>> Best,
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
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