Folder I Play

[dexto]

I hope you guys that like it improve it so we all can enjoy it.

Basically its turning a folder into a music player.

Supports: mp3, wma, wav, wmv.

Shortcuts:

Multimedia keyboard: Stop, Back, Forward, Play.

PageDown - play random song.

[End] - Exit

I hope you can help me improve it.

Code and everything:

http://tort.selfip.com:8/FolderIPlay.zip

Try it:

http://tort.selfip.com:8/FolderIPlay.exe

[AdmiralAlkex]

It looks interesting but when running the source it complains about missing mylib.au3

Edit: But the exe looks good, it needs some ironing out but it is a good start.

Edited May 16, 2009 by AdmiralAlkex

[Tomb]

It looks interesting but when running the source it complains about missing mylib.au3

yeah its missing from the zip.

#include "P:\Desktop\Projects\!AU3\mylib.au3"

[dexto]

oki, updated

[nend]

Everytime I cliked on a folder I get the message "Not a folder" ??

Win vista 64 Bit

Edited May 17, 2009 by nend

[dexto]

I have no way to test Vista more so 64. My guess is that the more complex dll calls that return the address of the folder window focused are not working on vista (not surprised).

The part that is not working for vista is "getexplorerpath.au3" (most probably)

[dexto]

so, what do you think guys?

[ProgAndy]

It looks good Only thing is, that the GUI shows up above my minimize button (using Vista-Style for XP) and i think, there should be an option to exit the Player without the explorer.

[FinalVersion]

Ideas:

When folder minimized, send it to tray.

When folder is in tray, add trayoption to restart playing the folder

[dexto]

Anyone know if it would be possible to inject toolbar or buttons into explorer GUI?

@ProgAndy

As far a GUI i want to replace it entirely, so it will be using GUI of the explorer to handle controls. (dono how that will work yet)

Its hard otherwise to predict all positions and styles for windows GUI.

Exiting can be done without the closing the folder with hotkey: [END]

@Godly

To tell the truth i dono how to minimize whole folder to tray... :S

[TheSaint]

@dexto - this is not a bad concept, though I don't have much time to check it out properly at the moment.

A few suggestions come to mind though -

1) I really think that all buttons should be on the menu line (i.e. where you currently have the slider), as window titles can be quite long. You could also have an option to make it a floating toolbar (especially if the window is very small, and which should occur automatically if shrunk). EDIT: Actually it is a pity, that Microsoft didn't implement simple controls like yours in the 'Music Tasks' pane of a folder (XP) - that would be the ideal spot for them ... with maybe a link/button to show a media detail folder view like yours.

2) I personally think that the track title, rather than filename, should be displayed in the 'Name' column. Maybe have another column to display filename &/or filetype.

I suggest you search the forum for minimize to tray code ... I've certainly seen it posted a few times.

Edited May 18, 2009 by TheSaint

[dexto]

@TheSaint

That is exactly what i was thinking about Explorer... :-/

So.. I'm trying to rewrite the GUI. Hopefully it can fully integrate into the folders GUI as a ToolBar!

so far I got:

;[CLASS:ToolbarWindow32; INSTANCE:3]
$hReBar = ControlGetHandle($hwnd, '', '[CLASS:ReBarWindow32; INSTANCE:1]')

$hToolbar = _GUICtrlToolbar_Create($hwnd, BitOR($BTNS_BUTTON, $TBSTYLE_FLAT, $CCS_NORESIZE));, $CCS_NOPARENTALIGN

$b_play = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateFromFile($p_play)
$b_stop = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateFromFile($p_stop)


_GUICtrlToolbar_AddBitmap($hToolbar, 1, -1, $IDB_VIEW_SMALL_COLOR)
_GUICtrlToolbar_AddButton($hToolbar, 1000, $b_play, 0, $BTNS_BUTTON)
_GUICtrlToolbar_AddButton($hToolbar, 1001, $b_stop)


_GUICtrlRebar_AddToolBarBand($hReBar, $hToolbar, '', 1)

_GUICtrlRebar_SetBandLength($hReBar, 1, 250)
_GUICtrlRebar_SetBandLength($hReBar, 0, 250)

The problems am stuck at right now is:

-bitmap Buttons from .bmp file?

-get the tool bar background standard color

[mesale0077]

dexto thanks you for prog. this program ,to put the volume button ,how is it ,but good program

good job

[dexto]

I'm glad you liked it.

I'll try to put some volume control in old GUI when I get frustrated enough with making tool bar work.