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[holomind]

[majkinetor]

I will try to tweek code a little. Speed is most imoprtant, fancy stuff comes after it. I think you should set defaults to suit higher speed and setup gui can do the rest if somebody enjoy cool looking animation.

I didn't explore all possible solutions to this problem, to go to DX and OpenGL imediatelly.

BTW, I don't know how fast is WinFX but I heard XGL is making it look like a shame. On 3GHZ 64b machine, XGL is consuming 1% with constantly rotating cube (U hold right/left arrow all the time) on ATI Radeon 6800PRO. This configuration is pretty standard nowdays...

I guess time will come for porting XGL to windows since it is already planned. It is still alpha version in Linux world, so I guess when time comes to release final build, somebody might do it for Win. After all, this is the best desktop manager ever....
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[holomind]

[Laszlo]

Version 0.6 works perfectly for me, so I cleaned up the code a little, making it smaller and slightly faster.

Edit:Removed the code. Use the improved version.

[Chris]

For anyone wondering, I moved the unrelated posts that were in this topic to a new topic: Customize the Forum to Help the Posting of Scripts.

[majkinetor]

2 Lazslo
I tried your version and it works even better.
One bug: Some windows are out of screen here, I can just see small parts
Also, my Opera had freezed interface after using the script...

Does anyone plan to extend this with proper setup gui, selection etc ?
If not, I will take that job onmyself. I am just wondering so we don't do the same work.
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[not-logged-in-daonlyfreez]

I took Laszlo's version, and created a wallpaper version. The fade-in/fade-out is slow though. Dunno if it can be done more smoothly and more speedy.

+ Added Esc-key to close the window
+ Added wallpaper background
+ Added transparent fade-in/fade-out

[majkinetor]

very good daonlyfreez

However, this script is stil unusable since it block my mouse after usage.
That is, problem persist even when I close the script down.... One of the windows simply is not responding to mouse clicks....
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[not-logged-in-daonlyfreez]

Yes, if you click on the background window with the wallpaper. Will fix it.

[daonlyfreez]

+ If you don't click on a picture, but on the wallpaper background, or if you press Esc or if you press F12 again, Expose will fade out, and the previous active window will be activated

Still needed:

+ speedup
+ settings GUI

[majkinetor]

I am trying another approach wich will be real time with live preview if it turn out to work.

Windows API is supporting something called world transformations.
You can set the transformation matrix to the DC. Transformation matrix is 2x3 matrice containing rotation, scale and translation factors.

So, basicly windows can do it on the fly, and we will not be dealing with bitmpas but with minituarised version of windows itself witch can then be aranged like normal windows. The side effect is live preview of video and things like that... plus, it will be real time.

Lets hope it works...

If anobody wants to examine this approach, I suggest searching around SetWorldTransform function on MSDN.

BTW, some windows are still out the screen
BTW2, exlusions are absolutely needed - People don't want to select Gtalk, winamp witch is always on top in the corner etc...
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[daonlyfreez]

For settings, I can think of the following:

Background:
- use fixed background color -> set color
- use transparent background -> set transparency level
- use fixed picture -> set picture path
- use current wallpaper

Effects:
- use fade-in -> set speed
- use fade-out -> set speed
- use live-update -> set update interval

Exclude:
- exclude windows smaller than -> set max. width and max. height
- exclude specific windows -> set windows to exclude

Hotkeys/triggers:
- set hotkey/triggers for 'normal' mode (trigger could be screen corner)
- set hotkey/triggers for 'application' mode (show only windows of active application)

If you don't own a Mac, here is a demo video of Apple's Expose:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/expose.html

Any more ideas?

@majkinetor: Nice. If you can get that to work, it might even be possible to make it look even more like Apple's... (I like the mouseover effects, and the moving of the windows)
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[Terrapin]

Hi Everyone. This is the first time I've been here since this one started. I am really amazed at what you have done, and the work you are doing together. The only Expose clone I've tried is called 'Exposer' and I found it to be more hassle than helper. I apologize for only trying what seems to be the most recent, daonlyfreez'. It works wonderfully. I did run across several glitches (in opening about 20 windows), but none of them were a problem at all, and seemed to have to do with the apps probably doing strange things. In Eudora which is MDI, everything worked fine. In Paint Shop Pro, which opens images within it's window, the open images seem to get caught in various stages of redraw, in the thumbnails. I opened two instances of Winamp, and no problems there, other than the 'old' winamp-style window appeared in the thumbnails, in addition to the 'modern skin'. The wallpaper had first one, then two groups (very small) of pixels which were always white, when in thumbnail view. I only say these things to help you if you want to further develop.

I was running it on an AMD64 3700+. I will try it later on AMD64 dual core 4200. The one I ran it on has two gigs, the other has only one but much faster ram. Both are connected to a dual-display, through a KVM switch. The secondary display... nothing changed at all there, but windows on it were 'captured' (thumbnailed). I really think this might be my preference, rather than having the thumbnails use the entire desktop.

One very unknown little app's window did not get captured for a while. Once it started getting captured, it seemed to work fine. I'm told it is coded in Delphi, the only other thing is that it's window opens across the middle of my desktop, thus spanning the two displays. Maybe this was the reason. It is a front-end for several audio-related command-line utilities.

I think this could really go far. I would encourage you all to work on it and develop. I could see the taskbar being possibly toggled off (hidden).

It ran quite quickly, in animated mode. Fine for me. Media Player gave it big problems, I don't use media player so... Word and Outlook gave no problems. I really did have all sorts of apps and windows open. Hard to believe all this was done with such a small amount of code. I realize that the GDI+ does a lot of it.

I wish I could volunteer to do the config gui, I am good at them I think, but I don't get things done very quickly. I will be a beta tester instead.

Thank you all, and Holomind especially who (I *think*) started all this with the screen captures and LiveWindows and the originals of this.

Bob

[Terrapin]

Maybe this is some sort of contribution, not sure. Tooltips, don't seem to work very well for indicating the 'focused' window, as they don't size to what you see, for one thing, and for another, they don't let clicks through if they overlay. But, here is my code for it anyway, and it works other than those things. And, I think the taskbar, maybe, is being included... I get an extra 'invisible' item after the third one.

[Laszlo]