NFM is the name of a new file manager that I am currently developing. It is intended to implement a very flexible, asynchronous file manager suitable for many versions of UNIX.
My previously written File Manager, "FileMan" is can be found here - it can be seen as the basis on which I intend to improve on.
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| 30th January, 2000. | Second code release available - as before, this is for the
curious only - you can only perform limited navigation of the available
types, and of course, bugs, bugs, bugs...
It now has a "quick abort" button, views default to "detailed" view (can not change via interface as yet), incremental window painting will also work in this view. Added a right mouse button pop-up menu - shows whatever options the Mime type for that particular object does - not hooked up to a valid handler yet - this is next week! |
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| 30th January, 2000. |
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| 22nd January, 2000. | The initial screen shots have been added to with a shot showing the mounted file systems, and navigating a real file system. | ||||||
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| 20000130 | A snapshot of the source code directory tree - requires tcl
8.2 to run. To actually try out the code use the following instructions; mkdir /tmp/nfm_20000130 cd /tmp/nfm_20000130 [ -f /tmp/vfs_logfile ] && chmod 777 /tmp/vfs_logfile tar xvzf /tmp/20000130.tgz export NFM_HOME=$PWD/nfm nfm/bin/nfm Of course, you will require a valid DISPLAY. The GUI should pop up once it has assigned its ports for this session. Currently the various daemons are launched in xterm windows for debugging purposes... Enjoy!! |
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| 30th January, 2000 | Although there may not be much visible progress, things are
developing quite rapidly. The VFS handling function have been changed
significantly from the original set - and will of course continue to
change as development continues - this is the beauty of using a component
based approach.
The view now appears in veritical mode - known as the "detailed" view. Notice that the details will change depending on the object type in question. The basic handling for "retrieving" an object has been written for "local" files - the code for tar archives will be added this week. This is the first step of actually performing a "double-click" type action on the object. Also the GUI now supports a right-click on objects in the file window - this produces a pop-up menu with options suitable for that object. The actions do not work yet - but hopefully that will come soon as well!!
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| 22nd January, 2000 | Well, it has been a couple of weeks from the last
"weekly" report. Despite this work has continued on the VFS
architecture, GUI interface and other aspects.
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