Avic Pro Tools is an application I'm making with GM8.1 for my USB drive. I use it to manage and sort all of my media and quick launch programs, games, and apps that I have on the USB drive. The goal of this software is to minimize clicks when it comes to finding things and access programs quickly. Avic Pro Tools acts like a portable app menu.
So far I've been working on my photos section. Above you'll see a very basic scrollbar system and thumbnail listing of images found. There's no limit to the images that can be listed. It finds all photos within the photo directory, regardless of it's file name and extension. I have it looking for all .jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, and gif files. I'm planning on having album support and functions to move and rename the images. As for adding images, I'm in the middle of adding a drag and drop feature that allows you to just drop an image into the program and store it on the usb drive in the photos section.
One thing that I'm really hoping to finish soon is my drop and organize feature. I'm hoping to have the program automatically sort all image, exe, and music files. Meaning, drop a photo in (regardless of extension) and it gets put in the photo folder. Drop a .exe file in, and it'll ask if it's a game or tool. Drop a mp3 in and it'll put it right in your music folder. The only one I'm worried about will give me difficulties is games/software in folders with external resources included or dragging and dropping a folder full of files. I'll have to come up with something clever. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm basically making it possible to just drag and drop anything and everything into the window and have it organize itself on the usb drive.
I'd like to add video support as well, but until I find a decent way to pull thumbnail previews out of videos for the display, I'm just going to focus on the other features for now.
PS: To everyone wondering why I'm using Game Maker: remember where this site originated from.
That sounds cool.
I want to be first to beta test.Thank you for the support. I'll let you know when it's ready for testing. =)
Very Interesting!
Make a group icon that you drag into, then it will group the files you dragged in as it is instead of the normal organizing?
This is actually a pretty cool idea, especially if there were folders on both ends, USB and computer that worked like this.Or maybe you could also organize the files by their root folders or something i dunno.I just made a break through with the drag and drop feature. I made it possible to drag multiple items into the window and have those items scanned for extensions, file names, and moved to the photo directory on my USB drive. Finally have a working D&D feature. Which is the biggest part of this project.
With folders though, the app recognizes it as a single file at the moment. What I'm going to do is have it check for an extension, if none exists, assume it is a folder and scan everything in it's directory. Then to a loop through all of it's contents and add them. -edit-The above worked. I can now dump an entire folder of images into the program and it will keep the files in the folder as if it were an album. Going to work on albums next.