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- Explore Cool!
- The stand-alone multidocument Windows explorer replacement with image preview,
- multimedia and many other features.
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- Status:
- This software is free.
- Look for more at http://mmbuilder.hypermart.net
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- Installation:
- The ExploreCool is stand alone, that is it will work from any directory or CD.
- Just copy it to any location you want, for example C:\Windows\
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- Program background Info:
- Leonard Smith did a great job with his FiFo utility, so I decide to push it a bit further.
- I like to play with graphics and sound so I added few things I was missing in original explorer.
- I didn't change much of the code, mostly I added a new features (actually the code almost doubled :)
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- The features I added:
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- Fast Preview for graphic formats and text.
- Pressing F3 or clicking the last button in the first row will open Fast Preview window.(See picture)
- Here you can see preview of major graphic formats (bmp, jpg, gif, png, pcx, tiff, tga) as well as preview of text files (txt, h, cpp, inf, nfo...)
- The image will be resized (smoothly) to fit the prview pane.
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- Launch Bar
- This I find very useful. You can type any dos command directly in the combo box and after you press Enter it will execute it.
- More: you can use Drag & Drop to drop one ore more files into the combo box, which will save typing.
- Launchbar has some other Quick launch buttons one for cdplayer and other for Email.
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- Play multimedia files
- If you select in the listview a multimedia file (wav, mid, au, avi, mpg, rif..) you will see the Play button will be enabled.
- Clicking on it will start play the multimedia file. You can stop it with other button)
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- Disk Format
- As was posted on the web board.
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- Few things I changed:
- I kill the InfoPane from the top of the view and put it to the bottom,
- where it looks better to me. (it is actually not CInfoPane anymore :)
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- Drag & Drop - I didn't like the left mouse drag = move, right = copy approach so I changed it to the standard
- Ctrl / Shift. I also show proper cursor for that action.
- When you drag more files it will show group icon during drag instead just one item.
- Some network stuff fix - I don't have fully working network and it was crashing in one place, nothing serious.
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- I removed some view toggle stuff and replaced it with toggle between Commander and Explorer type of view
- (just playing around)
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- I hope some one might find this my clone useful.
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- One tip: To get another Explorer clone done by MS themselves type winfile.exe in the command Combo box :-)
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- Don't forgot the author of the original is Leonard Smith and I am sure he must spent many hours writing it aginst my few hours making this clone.
- I didn't want to make the original program better or worse, this is my vision of the clone, and you might have different opinion.
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- I will post more updates on my page
- http://mmbuilder.hypermart.net/cool
- as soon as I will have them ready.
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- R.O.Voska