Xenon File Manager Portable 1.3.9.1 Beta

John Bentley

- February 7, 2008 - 5:43pm

Application: Xenon File Manager Portable
Category: Utilities

About:

Xenon is a file manager with portable file assocations, plugins, etc. It has built in search, bookmarks, etc.

Download:

Download Xenon File Manager Portable 1.3.9.1 Beta
(MD5: 016475ebde45015946dca2ab310b66cf | 1.8MB)
Note: You will need to extract to X:\PortableApps\XenonPortable not X:\PortableApps

Notes:

1.3.9.1 Beta:

Copy, Move, and Delete windows now have cancel buttons.

Bookmarks updated, Captions now supported.

1.3.9.0 Beta:

initial release

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

The installer seems corrupt,

ZachHudock

- February 7, 2008 - 6:08pm

The installer seems corrupt, 7z SFX crashes each time I double click the file. If I use 7zip and just use the extract function, it works, but the SFX itself seems broken.

Edit: The app itself works great, there is a .svn folder left behind in "Xenon\App\xenon\toolbar\MI3-Crystal"

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OK, I'll try to get a

John Bentley

- February 7, 2008 - 6:28pm

OK, I'll try to get a working sfx later.

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Yes!

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - February 7, 2008 - 6:39pm

I was just thinking about this today and yesterday while going through and organizing some files. Sweetness.

Note: Well Xenon should be stable shouldn't it? *patrick claps for his pun*

Some people easily amuse

ZachHudock

- February 7, 2008 - 6:40pm

Some people easily amuse themselves....

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Works greatly

José Pedro Arvela (Homepage) - February 7, 2008 - 6:47pm

It works fine, tough the delete prompt isn't translated. And the already known bug of the installer. I like the copy/cut/delete images (if I had a big file to move...)

I found these strings untranslated, by the way (minor things):

ADDTEMPLATE=Adicionar Modelo
ALLFILES=Todos os Ficheiros

#tuna { color: silver; smell: delicious; }

Look!

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - February 10, 2008 - 3:08pm

Xenon made the Front Page of Wikipedia!

:-)

John Bentley

- February 10, 2008 - 3:53pm

Horray. LOL!

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Some Small Suggestions

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - February 11, 2008 - 12:14am

I just wanted to suggest some minor features that would be nice, the cancel one is the most important to me.

A 'Cancel' button on the File Copying & Cutting & Pasting image windows to stop the operation.
Homepage doesn't seem to work for me.
Maybe aliases for the bookmark paths.
I'm having a problem with setting a homepage not working.
Would it be hard to have the search results when typed in the search box directly from Xenon display inside the file manager area?
Resizable tree view?

This is, unfortunately, the

John Bentley

- February 11, 2008 - 7:13am

This is, unfortunately, the least possible of all.
I'll look into that.
Not a bad idea.
In what way?
Yes, but not impossible.
That would be quite tricky.

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Crystal Icon Set

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - February 11, 2008 - 1:56am

I got bored tonight, so I stayed up late and made a Crystal icon set to show off my hardcore Paint.NET skills.

Download Crystal Toolbar Icons

Preview Crystal Toolbar Theme

P.S., that's only an Ubuntu theme, not Linux.

If anyone wants to re-do them, don't be shy.

feedback

Dijaboro (Homepage) - February 11, 2008 - 7:10am

strange behaviour:

- download newest version
- install it
- open it
- click on network drive
- open dialog get visible
- click cancel
- error message occures : "Datei kann nicht kopiert werden: Die Quelldatei oder der Quelldatenträger kann nicht gelesen werden." e.g. Can't copy file: can't read source file or volume

windows xp german

Yeah, It doesn't work with

John Bentley

- February 11, 2008 - 7:19am

Yeah, It doesn't work with network drives.

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o_O

Dijaboro (Homepage) - February 11, 2008 - 11:04am

so the tool is not handy for people using network drives?

i will check what will happen on virtual drives.

OK! 1.3.9.1 Beta is out. I

John Bentley

- March 9, 2008 - 7:04am

OK! 1.3.9.1 Beta is out. I actually managed to get the copy/move/delete windows to have a working cancel button!

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Sweet

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - March 9, 2008 - 1:29pm

Thanks so much! I'll test it out for sure.

Great

José Pedro Arvela (Homepage) - March 9, 2008 - 6:13pm

It is great, and no, I don't any translation correction to say (once in a lifetime I didn't screwed up ).

Seems stable working on Windows Vista HP pt-PT without SP1 yet (waiting for pt-PT release without being RFM ).

Also, a feature I think it would be nice: support for opening shortcuts on Xenon instead of Windows Explorer (I though of making an association but that would open on another window).

#tuna { color: silver; smell: delicious; }

Not a bad idea. I just added

John Bentley

- March 9, 2008 - 6:35pm

Not a bad idea. I just added it to the source. It only took 4 lines of code.

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New icon?

Mr Magical - March 10, 2008 - 10:37am

I've created this image in gimp and could create an icon from it that contains all the required bit depths and sizes.
Link

Let me hear what you think. It's just a suggestion.

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Not bad. The thing is that

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 10:53am

Not bad. The thing is that Xe should be purple. (That is what the element Xenon looks like in a neon sign.) It doesn't look like it would look very good in 16x16.

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AWSOME work i like this

NeoRame (Homepage) - March 10, 2008 - 12:17pm

AWSOME work i like this Icon, better than my! i know my version had the wrong proportion

Hell was full, so I came back!!!
Sorry for my lousy English!!!

Can anyone check the latest

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 10:56am

Can anyone check the latest package for paf compatibility (except installer)? Thanks.

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A couple issues:

ZachHudock

- March 10, 2008 - 11:05am

A couple issues:

need a help.html in the XenonPortable directory
in AppInfo, the icon should be appicon.ico
the splash screen is in a XenonPortable dir under Data, it should be in the source dir
there is an assoc.ini in the source dir

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I left that out because it

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 11:18am

I left that out because it looks like it has PortableApps trademarks.
Thanks
I put it there so the launcher would not have to extract it to a temporary directory. It also allows the user to change or disable the splash screen. Is there a problem with that.
That is there because the launcher extracts it on first run. It will be removed when I can use the installer.

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1. you could make your own,

ZachHudock

- March 10, 2008 - 11:26am

1. you could make your own, it's not really big issue though

2. no problem

3. Why would the launcher need to extract it to a temporary directory? Does AutoIt not allow you to compile the image into the exe? This is how it is done with NSIS. I'm not sure if it's an issue or not, I understand your point of keeping it in Data.

4. Ok

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3. It is stored in the

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 11:37am

3. It is stored in the executable, but it must be extracted to a folder before it can be used.

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For 3

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - March 10, 2008 - 5:09pm

Yea, I believe that's what NSIS does, too.

Hmm...where does NSIS

ZachHudock

- March 10, 2008 - 5:12pm

Hmm...where does NSIS extract it to, i never noticed this.

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TEMP

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - March 10, 2008 - 5:34pm

Temp I believe, or at least I thought. I'm probably wrong, but I thought it had to extract its resources.

Me again

Mr Magical - March 10, 2008 - 1:12pm

I've changed some things in the icon, resized it to the different sizes and optimized it.
Then I created one single .ico file containing all of them.
It can be downloaded from here.
(There's also a zipped version of a modified big one). Tell me what you think.

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!

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 2:17pm

Perfect. That is awesome!

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One Feature Request

Devo - March 10, 2008 - 2:01pm

I only have one request. I don't know how easy this would be, but what about adding a tabbed layout view. That way you could open several different folders in the same window. That is the only reason I still use ExplorerXP.

I also found a little bug. If I already have Portable Firefox open and go to the help, a dialog box pops up that says I need to close firefox before another instance of firefox can be opened. Shouldn't the help just open in another tab in firefox?

Don't worry. That is planned

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 2:13pm

Don't worry. That is planned for the next (big) version (1.5).

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???

Devo - March 10, 2008 - 7:35pm

The tabs or the bug?

Tabs. Xenon just opens the

John Bentley

- March 11, 2008 - 11:00am

Tabs. Xenon just opens the program you have associated with for HTML files. If you have a local firefox browser open it will not be able to open the file.

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Firefox

Devo - March 11, 2008 - 11:35am

I had portable firefox open and internet explorer closed at the time. The default for HTML files is internet explorer, but it still tried to open the help with portable firefox. If I open any HTML file on my computer it defaults to IE. Maybe something else is going on.

I tried

Simeon

- March 11, 2008 - 2:53pm

1.4 and it seems like the bug is fixed.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Just so everybody knows I

John Bentley

- March 10, 2008 - 8:08pm

Just so everybody knows I have released version 1.4.

http://www.mi3soft.info/?page=noblegas.xenon

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Cool

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - March 10, 2008 - 9:10pm

I'm not gonna request anymore features, only point out some bugs now as I really want this one to go public here. These might have been mentioned before, I didn't read the whole thread.

Here's the bugs I'm noticing.

Cannot add bookmarks that to not reside on the drive Xenon is running from. I know people will rarely do this, but I'm just pointing it out. I don't expect a fix.
When closing the bookmarks window, that ListView array 1d and 2d Display window appears, which doesn't seem like it needs to be shown, perhaps try to hide this.
As for the Xenon search, how about having it a different default size, so you can still see the Xenon window behind it, or maybe have a 'Go Back to Xenon' button on the search window or something.
Homepage doesn't work setting it for different drives, but again I don't expect it to, it's Xenon Portable.
Cut doesn't seem to work when clicking the button, and pasting files displays the cut screen.

I think those are the only problems I had. It's looking awesome!

1. Yeah, it's by design. 2.

John Bentley

- March 11, 2008 - 4:54am

1. Yeah, it's by design.
2. I hate it when I forget to remove debugging messages.
3. Not a bad idea.
4. See 1
5. I can't reproduce this.

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Nice

José Pedro Arvela (Homepage) - March 11, 2008 - 10:18am

Its nice. I have found this bug:

Bookmarks seem to point always to Computer (with or without Captions)

I can't find Patrick's 5th Bug (lets call it that way and mine is José's Bug)

#tuna { color: silver; smell: delicious; }

Amazing!

Simeon

- March 11, 2008 - 12:33pm

I never tried it before but now I gave it a shot and its simply amazing. I really like it. It was a little slow in displaying the folder content but I have to use it more to really compare this. Other than that I have some suggestions:

Association editor could have a save&cancel button
It would be nice to have a delete icon next to copy/cut/paste
Whats the "show..Item" thing for?
I really like the tile view!!!

Great work.

I just realized that I still have to try Partick´s Icons and the 1.4 version. I will!

BTW I like your "mirroring system" but on you homepage, the main xenon window is moved to the right. Shouldn't it stay in its white frame?

EDIT

It really is slow displaying folders like Computer.
I think the splash screen fades too slowly. Could be faster.
Where am I supposed to put Patricks icons so I can choose them in the menu without overwriting the original ones?

Sorry for all the (noob-)questions...

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Lmfao, Wow

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - March 11, 2008 - 1:12pm

Lol, noob for sure.

The icons go it:

XenonPortable\App\xenon\toolbar

Show .. show's a folder named '..' which you click on to go up a directory.

thanks

Simeon

- March 11, 2008 - 1:21pm

Patrick. Haven't felt so noobish in quite some time

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P.S.

Patrick Patience

(Homepage) - March 11, 2008 - 1:24pm

Check your mail. I think I accidentally replied from a different address.

I will

Simeon

- March 11, 2008 - 1:31pm

when I get home. Just trying to get LBreakout done before.

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The

Simeon

- March 11, 2008 - 2:54pm

navigation at the left side of the help file isn't working.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Is JS enabled.

John Bentley

- March 11, 2008 - 3:14pm

Is JS enabled.

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java?

Simeon

- March 11, 2008 - 3:16pm

yes. But I have to retry at home. Maybe its not installed...

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Incompatible

Mr Magical - March 12, 2008 - 10:54am

It seems incompatible with Firefox.

Why not use target="framename"?
I might do that for you. And it should work without JavaScript too.

EDIT: I have the files needed to fix the navigation.
They are avaliable as 'helpnavfix.zip' here.

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Hmm. I guess it is not. I

John Bentley

- March 12, 2008 - 11:02am

Hmm. I guess it is not. I had tested it before and it worked...

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Great!

Kevin Porter

(Homepage) - March 12, 2008 - 7:56pm

Version 1.4 passes my tests. It works perfectly, with only one complaint. I'm on a 1440 by 990 pixel screen, and the copy, paste, delete, etc screens are rather large. Other than that, just perfect.

Just a comment: Is there a reason that you have not used an NSIS installer? If you want, I can make you one.

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

There is a reason,

John Bentley

- March 12, 2008 - 8:17pm

There is a reason, licensing. Xenon is MIT, PAI is GPL. Even though MIT is compatible with GPL that would throw the license off.

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Ahh.

Kevin Porter

(Homepage) - March 12, 2008 - 8:19pm

Okay. Thanks, that's kind of been a burning question in my mind for a while.

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