So, this week was a disaster and I’m starting to get that same feeling as I had last year before the meltdown. I decided to take few weeks off to build up strength. I’m still checking the forum and email but there wont be any progress on CE until august.

Until then, have a nice summer

It’s been quite unproductive week. The DualView is pretty much a mess at the moment and I’ll have to take few steps backwards and rewrite some code. The problem lies in the layout system which is designed to handle only one pane and a single active tab. So I’ll need to do some changes on how layouts are saved and loaded. As a side product to those changes, I will be adding options to lock toolbars and panels.

Another problem I’ve been having is my motivation level which was pretty much zero this week. Due to my programming style, pretty much all ideas and how things should work exist only in my head. If the motivation level is high, that vision is clear. This week however, it’s been just a blur. To boost up motivation, I started to play around with QuickView related stuff. Here’s the result:

Basically, I coded a framework for plugins that can be used to add more viewers in QuickView. It works very nicely and I’m looking forward to implement it in CE. This has indeed boosted my motivation level so I’m hoping to finish the work with DualView by the end of next week.

First I’d like to thanks everyone who left a comment or sent me an email regarding of Mr.Cat. Much appreciated .

This week I’ve worked in implementing the DualView host into CE. As I feared, it’s quite a big and messy job. Because CE was developed to have only single file view, there are a lot of core functions I need to change to make everything work. That makes things quite difficult because changing some of the core functions might have side effects for many different features. But slowly things are moving forward.

At the moment CE is pretty much useless and filled with bugs so I won’t be releasing snapshot this week. Hopefully by the end of next week I have tied all the loose ends.

It’s been a bit sad week for me. On Monday I had to put my cat (the unofficial mascot of CubicReality) to sleep. He was about 18 years old and had been living with me for 17 years. For the past few weeks he had been sick and was in pain so there was no reason to prolong the inevitable. It’s a tuff decision to make as some of you may know. After all, he was an equal family member.

Obviously that has affected on the progress of CE since my mind is somewhere else. However, I have managed to create the foundation for DualView. Next step is to implement it in CE. I’m hoping to get that done within next week. There will be a toolbar between panes (you will be able to hide it). Also there will be switch for horizontal and vertical panes.

Here’s a fresh snapshot. This week wasn’t too productive but I did get some things done. The biggest change is filtering with text patterns, you can find it in the Filters Panel. There’s currently 2 modes available, normal and strict. Normal mode filters out any file/folder that does not contain the specific text. Strict mode allows you to use * and ? wildcards to make more advanced filtering. At some point there will be also support for regular expressions.

Next week I’ll start to work with the DualView. I decided to use a simple tab indicator approach to make it. I received lots of great ideas and feedback from you guys about how it should be done. Thanks to everyone . I know that the upcoming DualView implementation will not satisfy everyone, I’m not even sure I like it. However, it’s a good starting point.

Happy Midsummer to everyone! Hyvää Juhannusta!

Change Log

• Added text pattern filter.
• Added option to close CE when last tab is closed.
• DriveBar now uses Alt+LeftClick to open in new tab.
• Updated Polish translation.
• Fixed Lower/Upper case bug when renaming folders.
• Removed "Load this session at startup" from Session Manager.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1168 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

Here’s the notes, day early because I don’t have time for it tomorrow. It’s been busy week and I didn’t have time to make as much progress with CE as I was planning. My goal for this week was to implement DualView. However, I got stuck at the very beginning due to lack of inspiration. Basically, I’m not quite sure how the DualView should work. Should there be different tabs for each view or would it be better to just divide a single tab into two views? Or maybe those views could have their own tabs inside a single “main” tab. Not sure

Anyway, I did do some changes here and there. I added file extension column and toolbar buttons for sessions and bookmarks. Also there’s now advanced options to turn off the session history.

Change Log

• Disabled exceptions on settings file creation.
• Fixed Access Violation on Options panel.
• Added Sessions toolbar button.
• Added Bookmarks toolbar button.
• Added option to disable session history.
• Added option for session history count.
• Breadcrumb now reactivates if needed.
• Added Extension column.
• Added Slovak translation.
• Made CE more Vista compatible.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1167 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

It’s been pretty productive week and I managed to make good progress. Most of the week went into rewriting the sessions support which was quite a big job. It’s now finished and I like it. I’ve never been happy with the old one so I made some changes. I added a session manager to make things more sane. Also there is now a history feature that let’s you go back to previous sessions.

I’ve also added BrowseZipFolders option into FileView’s and FolderPanel’s advanced settings. By enabling it you will be able to open ZIP files like folders inside CE. However, there are still some bugs left that I need to fix. For example, you have to use the right click menu to open files from inside ZIP, double click doesn’t work.

Anyway, I’m not yet sure what’s next week’s agenda. Maybe I’ll write DualView or QuickFilter. At least I’ll try to finish rearranging the todo list.

Change Log

• Added new session support.
• Added temporary fix for TabBar visibility issue.
• Added BrowseZipFolders option for FileView and FolderPanel.
• StatusBar now remembers it’s visibility.
• Fixed Reuse Tabs option.
• Fixed breadcrumb related crash.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1160 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

Not that productive this week. I’ve still been occupied by other stuff but I did manage to do little work with CE. Still no sessions though, sorry. Also the todo list needs to be rearranged. However, this snapshot is more useful than the previous one. The keyboard bug is fixed which was also affecting the advanced settings editor. I added AutoFit and few other options to tabs. Those can be found in the advanced settings.

Anyway, I’m hoping to have sessions up and running next week. The reason why it’s taking so long is the fact that I’m rewriting the sessions support from scratch. Also I’ll try to sort the todo list. It’s quite a nasty job so I’m not really looking forward to it.

Change Log

• Added AutoFit tabs, MaxTabSize and CloseButton settings.
• Removed old bug fix.
• Fixed icon size bug (again).
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed keyboard bug.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1149 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

Just a quick note. This week I’ve been busy with other stuff and haven’t been able to work much with CE. Next week will be different and there should be some progress and snapshot release.

I still haven’t sorted out the todo list. I’ll try to do that next week.