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Hello guys,
it's been a long time since I don't write in the forum, but I always love AutoHotkey and I try to follow the community as soon as I have a bit of time.
Inspired by the work by fragman (7plus) I created SmartXplore, a tool to extend Windows Explorer with many features. SmartXplore is an addon system and each addon is made in the autohotkey language. Just copy the .ahk file in the addon directory to enable it in windows explorer: you'll see it in a menu shown by pressing the middle mouse button when Windows Explorer is active.

You can download it at http://www.smartxplore.org

SmartXplore is free and portable.

Let me know what do you think about it,
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kiu - www.romeosa.com

I clicked the link to see what it is. But because JavaScript is required, I see blank page and I do not want permit for that domain. Its a security question. Would be nice if there is an alternative page for that without JS required.

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sorry, the site was all made in Vaadin, a Java framework that use JS for AJAX requests.

This is the direct link to download SmartXplore:
http://www.romeosa.com/smartxplore/SmartXplore.exe

Anyway, in order to install new add-ons, you need to browse them at www.smartxplore.org.
Changing the web site architecture will require many resources and I have not much time right now.

Sorry

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kiu - www.romeosa.com

I am very careful and decompiled before any execution. The script itself is just a loader? Where is the main executable? After extracting the script with Exe2Ahk.exe I came up with one .ahk file. The most important lines are:

The other lines are unspectular.
Why do you hiding the main file? Sorry to say, but this got my attention.

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{1:"ahkstdlib", 2:"my libs", 3:"my apps", 4:"my license"}
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I did not hide the main file,
indeed the main file is included in the smartxplore.7z package as a source file executed as a script.
There are several reasons for this choice, if you want I can explain them all.
If you do not trust the content, I suggest you to install Sandboxie and run everything in a sandbox, so you will be sure that nothing will damage your computer

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Also, as I said, SmartXplore is free and opensource.
You can find the source code at http://code.google.com/p/smartxplore/

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Vote: I'll try it

I am using virtualbox already. (similiar to Vmware).
I am interested in why you did that approach? These extra steps makes it more complicated and lead to think you would hide malicious software. Its just unusual to post it here. And sorry... maybe I had some sort of panic that time.

I tried your application. Windows XP 32-Bit.
After start the icon in the tray is not visible. But the script is working as expected. Nice work on script and layout of the webpage! Its really cool and lightwight and ton of features!

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I tried it, looks nice so far, but I'll stick to my program
Btw, interested in participating in 7plus development?
I have way too many ideas I want to implement...

@Tunkay

big reason: I'm planning to make automatic updates that just notify the user and ask him a simple message if he wants to update. Then, the update process will require to just overwrite a file
minor reason: if I compile smartxplore.ahk with AHK2EXE_L, my antivirus will recognize that file as a malware, while it is not. So I use CompilerAHK. Unfortunately it's not available for AutoHotkey_L or at least I think so and I did not investigate further

@fragman
As I said in my first post, I've not much time at the moment and smartxplore was made just because I need it. I published it because someone may nedd it too. Maybe in the future I can help you with your project. Anyway, if you want to contribute to smartxplore, maybe with some add-ons, you are welcome

Sorry, same problem as yours. But if you can use any functions I wrote feel free to use them.