Xenon File Manager Portable 1.5 Development Test 5

For the upcoming platform release, I'm exposing a way for outside apps to be able to take advantage of the platform's built in file associations. It's a pretty simple process. Just check for the environment variable PortableApps.comShellExecute. If it exists, it will be a full path to an EXE (for example: X:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\ShellExecute.exe). Just execute that and pass in the full path to the file you wish to open. It will handle everything else from there including falling back to using the operating system's default if there is no portable app defined for it.

Basically, you could detect it on launch and handle things that way if it exists or the built in way if it doesn't. You could have an option to override it within the extensions editor as well. And you'd still need the extensions editor to set icons, of course.

BTW - Sorry I haven't gotten you the new icon set yet. I should have time to finish it Fridayish.

any command that I can use to directly open windows on Xenon? like for example, in PStart if I double-click on X:\Documents (X:\ == portable device) opens my PortableApps' Documents folder directly using Xenon.

If the answer is no, I think it can be implemented using stuff like "Xenon -documents" or something like that in the Documents shortcut on PStart...

I just wanted to say that I've uploaded another version of the icon for use in the splash screen. It's 128x128px and is avaliable at the link below (If you still want to use it).

http://drop.io/mrmagical/media (Click on xenonsplashicon.zip)

I love this app!

couple of points, I just tried out the latest version and it is coming along nicely :)

1. The pop up box that pops up on first runs is really scary, I have no idea what the answer is supposed to be, in fact I didn't know what the question was asking! It would be a good idea to put some more explanation in or just get rid of it :)
2. I know this get brought up a lot but is there really no way to make sure the expand boxes appear next to expandable folders at it is pretty annoying :( I have had a quick delve in the source (it has been a long time since I have written in a BASIC style language :)) an was wondering, in the __LoadTreeView_LoadFolder function, just after the _GUICtrlTreeView_InsertItem call couldn't you do a FileFindFirstFile("*.*") to see if there are any files in the folder, and if so add a dummy item to force the icon to appear, then when the item is expanded, check for the dummy item, delete it and add the folders. Please note though that before looking at the source just know I have never written in, or seen AutoIT code before, my previous statement could be a load of rubbish :)

I really think that Xenon is coming on though, well done :)

Ok, so I finally put the finishing touches on this. I've posted the PortableApps.com Xenon Theme I'd mentioned earlier. This uses a combination of icons from NuoveXT, Crystal and Vista Inspirate, some modified, all released under the GPL. It closely mimics the icons used in the upcoming PortableApps.com Platform release with the new theming engine and new theme so it'll blend in well.

Download PortableApps.com Xenon Theme

View a screenshot of the PortableApps.com Xenon Theme

Just download this and then unzip it to your XenonPortable\App\xenon\themes directory. It will create a PortableApps.com directory and all the required files underneath. In Xenon, click Settings, Choose Icon Set and then select PortableApps.com. You'll need to restart Xenon for the folder and file icons to update due to a bug in Xenon.

John, I think with this theme as the default, the new shellexecute addition and fixing the above-mentioned bug, we're good to go on making this a pre-release. I don't have a high-res icon for Xenon (can someone point me to it). Also, I'd suggest automatically doing a default set of associations without asking the user... the less the user needs to decide up front, the better. And ditch the GPL license from the installer... it's not necessary. It only applies if someone wants to modify or redistribute, which isn't normally allowed, so they have to read into the source files where it'll be anyway.

I would first like to apologize for losing my original SVG files (I kept them in their own folder, which I overwrote).

However, I would like to share the big uncropped GIMP .xcf file i made out of the generated bitmaps. I hope it'll work since I've modified GIMP to have more layer effects than the standard ones (I've tried to remove this from the uploaded file).
This is the link
This file and all the other provided files for this project may be used and modified freely without any restrictions.

OK. I have a build I like. It uses the PA theme as the default. It runs PAShellExec first if it can find it. (Whenever you can get me the info on how the fallback switch will work that would be great.) It also fixes some bugs on windows 98. The X button is to the right of the tabs. Do you think it is ready for (pre-)release?

Dev Test 5, pretty much an RC for the Pre-Release.