This is totally awesome! I'm pissed that Origami didn't do this in the first place. Thank you very much for picking up the ball!

First off, great job! This is truly impressive, especially considerining how quick you got this working.

I assume you're the kind soul who pointed the bug out, my memory sucks at names,

I'm sorry it took as long as it did. Ive been trying to learn directx (succeeded)

-Maybe I missed it, but is there a way to manually add album art for a video or music file if it cant be retrieved automatically?.

Good idea.

You can currently edit the hini file if you figure out my format. Im on a UMPC at a friend's so I don't really have my code available

I'll add a button to do it once I get home, probably to the top bar

-Also, It would be cool to have a way to display video info when you click it. For instance, when you click a video thumbnail, instead of playing automatically it could change to display a screen showing the title, length, summary, etc. and other information about the video.

I really don't like the idea of putting another layer of menus in between clicking a file and watching it. 360 does it and it is extremely annoying. Right clicking isn't a good option on UMPCs, and I can't add a third button to the selected item. I could try to add a button to the top bar (since album art woudnt be there for videos) to view the info

Thanks for the suggestions.

This is totally awesome! I'm pissed that Origami didn't do this in the first place. Thank you very much for picking up the ball!

You are very welcome, your appreciation is appreciated

I think that a 3rd button would be perfectly fine as far as displaying the video info. Hopefully, the additional feature to add album art manually can also be used on the videos so I can input the movie  DVD covers.( Im OK with them being cropped square, doesnt really bother me )

I've started using this as a replacement to my HTPC interface. I have a touch screen mounted to the wall next to the media center which is now running the MediaHome software. I also have a lot of additional DVDs and movies which due to space problems I can't fit onto the harddrive. If I can add movie information to the individual movies then I can make fake movie files that represent the ones in the external collection. When I access the movie information I can view the movie summary, etc, as well as the location where the movie is stored.

Again, thanks for all your hard work. You've made my living room the envy of everyone whos seen it :)

druidrks:

I think that a 3rd button would be perfectly fine as far as displaying the video info. Hopefully, the additional feature to add album art manually can also be used on the videos so I can input the movie  DVD covers.( Im OK with them being cropped square, doesnt really bother me )

I've started using this as a replacement to my HTPC interface. I have a touch screen mounted to the wall next to the media center which is now running the MediaHome software. I also have a lot of additional DVDs and movies which due to space problems I can't fit onto the harddrive. If I can add movie information to the individual movies then I can make fake movie files that represent the ones in the external collection. When I access the movie information I can view the movie summary, etc, as well as the location where the movie is stored.

Again, thanks for all your hard work. You've made my living room the envy of everyone whos seen it :)

Thanks. I'm working on the button now. I have the button itself in, it leads to an empty properties screen atm. I'll work on it more in the morning. Properties I have are: "Filesize:", "Resolution/Bitrate:", "Duration:", "Album:", "Artist:", "Genre:", an Add Thumbnail button (no clue how to extract it from videos) as well as "Queue", "Play", "Favorite", and you wanted the folder it's in, and I guess a custom info field?

Oki, I have all the properties done. If you're viewing the properties of an image a thumbnail shows up beside the properties. I'll have it do it for music/video that have thumbs as well. I have to go to work in a few minutes, but once I get back I'll add the option to manually set thumbnails for music/video files and then I'll upload the new version.

Newest version

With a file selected, you can click the "Properties" button from the toolbar at the top and it will list various properties of a file including it's thumbnail. Clicking "Set Thumbnail" for audio/video files will let you manually set the thumbnail. You can not manually set the thumbnail of a picture cause that would be silly. You can also add notes to video files

I've started working on the custom file types thing someone suggested ages ago and I forgot about.

I've changed:

The help button on the home screen is now the "My Documents" button, with the Vista icon for the same folder
The 'About' screen was moved from it's own section in settings to a button in the 'General' subsection in settings, the version number is now on the about screen
A "My Documents" section was added to settings, this is where you'll create your own file types
You'll have to give file types a name like "MS Office", folders to look in, and extensions of files to look for
Just separate your extensions with a space, don't worry about ;*.

I'll upload it when it's done, just wanted you guys to know what I'm working on

Also, do people want those gadgets/widgets/tiles things?

I have the settings part completely done.

I also added numbers to the on screen keyboard
I changed the buttons so the background of the button changes color instead of the edge. I felt the edge wasn't enough feedback
I noticed the little pointers lose synch with the insertion point when text is longer than the text box itself. Sorry, no idea how to fix that

I decided against doing the gadgets/widgets/tiles
I felt I could make a simple little infrastructure to do it, maybe making a Vista Sidebar clone. Then I considered just somehow getting Google Gadgets to work, but they are too complex. Then I figured, I can't compete with Google, they have like 42,000 gadgets. You guys might as well use that.

Newest version

I finished adding the actual directory listing part so quickly cause luckily it's no different from how it lists directories for other file types
Includes all the features I mentioned since the last update (Custom filetype support, being the major one)
Remember that you have to set them up in "Settings"\"My Documents" first, as I set no default ones.
The help button on the Home screen that did nothing, is now the "My Documents" button
Also, filetypes handled by the program already (Videos\Photos\Music\Playlists) are still handled by the program even if you set them as custom filetypes.
Clicking a file in the "My Documents" section will select it, clicking the selected item will execute it with the default program

IF enough people ask for it, I could add some Explorer features, like the right click context menu (only it wouldn't be right click, it'd be one of the small buttons that normally appear when you select a file), common tasks like copy/cut/paste/delete

Newer, newest version

I love being able to update whenever the hell I want
I added copy/move/rename/delete/properties to the "My Documents" section

My Samsung Q1Ultra XP give this error using your software, from the first version to the last:

 

Run-Time error "5"

Invalid procedure call or argument

 

Does your MobileHome support XP italian version?

Thank you

If it's happening in every version, then more than likely you aren't unzipping everything it needs to work or giving it a folder it has write access to. Other than that, I don't know what to tell you. I need more information of how/when you get the error

Hi,

I just placed my order with Dell for a Mini 9 running XP home.  I am looking forward to installing this.  NeoTechni it is very cool that you have kept this going.  Thanks for your efforts.

Much appreciated

Hi NeoTechni,

I just found your OrigamiProject clone for XP, tried it out and found it a very nice start for a really touchscreen-usable GUI for my Gigabyte M912.

If you don't mind I have some suggestions that would be really nice to have (I don't know whether you still work on that prject):

- Controls to switch display to portrait mode (rotate in 90 degree steps) like with harware key on M912
- Controls to adjust display brightness, like with hardware function keys
- Virual keyboard to launch from within third party software
- Should display a configurable taskbar at bottom or right of screen with definable buttons to launch (also to display system info like battery/date/time etc.) any programs. This taskbar should always be displayed even if other program is shown. If other program switches to full-screen mode, taskbar should still be displayed to be able to change screen orientation, launch other software etc., show virtual keyboard etc.

Another question: Wich development tools did you use to program the softwaer? I saw some .BAS files, so I assum it's VisualBasic?

Anyway, it'a a great first step for a really keyboard-independent GUI! I hope you keep on programming!

Many greetings from Germany,
   Juergen