TaskBar Plugin, Samurize as shell

[Psy4]

Hello !
here is my new plugin : The TaskBar ...

In fact, it is a copy of the Windows TaskBar, doing exactly the same things, but more customizable...
For the moment, it's able to switch between windows, minimize/restore a window and display the system menu of a window... it also automatically display a tooltip to show the full window name.

Actually i'm focusing on usage, but i'll add skining ability soon. For the moment, it draws white buttons (red for selected task) on a black background.

Here is what it looks like :


Another way to display it :


Here is the params window :


For the moment, you have these options in this window:
- Horizontal or Vertical display
- Button size (Width & Height)
- Auto Width (to fill the full width of the meter)
- Space between tasks...
- Text font and size
- Text horizontal & vertical align
- Display icon or not...
I'll add some other options soon for skinning ability.

What the plugin can do :
- Displays the task list as you wish
- Mouse over a task displays a tooltip
- Click on a task bring it to front
- Re-Click on a selected task minimize/restore it
- Right click on a task display its system menu

I already know about some bugs :
- If the samy refresh rate is too big, the plugin does'nt handles mouse correctly.
- System menu unavailable on **some** tasks started before the config loads...
- Tooltip does'nt disapear if mouse moved **quickly**

Please try it, and post feeds... thx
*** SEE MY LAST POST FOR UPDATED VERSION ***

[NeM]

*speechless*

[JyriK]

Woah

[Em7]

I don't know what you guys think but wouldn't it be better if Samurize didn't have refresh rate for stuff like this. It would only respond to input if you know what I mean. That would decrese the CPU usage I think.

[Psy4]

I agree with you Em7, i think that an option could be added (to plugin meters) to let the plugin decine when it needs to be redrawn... when needed it could post a message to Client to be refreshed. That could be a great new feature with Imput SDK

In all cases, i will rewrite the mouse-handling part of this plugin to reduce CPU usage and to correct some detection bugs...

I'm also working on another plugin : The systray ... yes, real one!
I only display icons for the moment... that's why i don't release it for now.

[NeM]

Again I guess this comes down to the way Samurize was designed; it was never meant to be a shell replacement; as such, there was no provision made for real-time input and event systems. I feel that this kind of functionality would require a major (probably complete) rewrite of Samurize, and even then I'm still not quite sure how it would work (complete shell replacements are a little out of my league )

[Raiderman]

Wow, impressive!

[Strictly4me]

Just great! - Nothing else!

((((( Strictly4me )))))

[Muaddib]

(wow)... lemmeasecondtotryit...

[uziq]

Nice.

The tooltips never seem to go away though, no matter how fast/slow I move the mouse.

[MS-2001]

seems to work, but i want to select all the colors...
thats what you could add

(there is no title of the application in my config. why? just the icon and a long black space :-/)

[wiz]

WOW! this is Awsome

[hobgoblin]

now this is insane.

and how hard would it be to add a option now that samurize gets pr item refresh rate for it to be set so that it only refreshes when the plugin tells it so?

[Psy4]

Hello again!

I'm here with the new release of the TaskBar plugin :

First, let's take a look at the param box and a config example:

example:


About previous release bugs, i think i've fixed the ToolTip problem, in both vertical and horizontal display...

And as expected, i'v added some usefull features :
- Tasks border are now optional, and you can choose the colors for active and inactive tasks
- Now you can choose to skin task buttons using images (PNG,JPG,GIF,BMP,TIFF... transparancy OK). Image is stretched to button size.
- You can now choose title colors for active and inactive tasks...
- Even icon size is definable...

Other modifications :
- Background is now transparent
- Param box reorganisation...
- Complete rewrite of task detection

ToDo list :
- Optional task titles (same as icon, border...)
- Definable icon position (same as title)
- Options for images (normal/stretched/tiled, position)
- Margins on image for better skinning (like Stardock SkinStudio : )


Ok, now it's your turn to work, please give it a try... and ask for improvements...

PsY4

*** SEE MY LAST POST FOR UPDATED VERSION ***

[hobgoblin]

now this is starting to become one instane plugin. now all we need is a way to hide the startbar itself (i belive there is a signal somewhere that can do that as i ran into a program thats called nextstart that did just that) and a way to have the start menu appear when a item is clicked (most likely will have to wait for that SDK. why do i have a feel that the SDK will take samurize into being a fullblown desktop replacement?)...