Cool animations in Vista (Gadget search)

[guruparan]

Hi all,

Ever saw PDC'03 demo showing a animation of trimming down the documents with animations (as and when you type in the key)..

Why dont/didnt they implement the cool feature (animation) into windows explorer search? (didnt get me what i am saying, open sidebar, rightclick, click on "add gadgets" & type "contac" leaving some time to the cool animation as an we you type the letters "contac".

[XPero]

Really nice :)

[kiddingguy]

that's cool!

i guess why they don't use this feature in the regular vista search, is that all swapping en rescheduling of icons make eyes wobbly

[ViperAFK]

I never noticed that, pretty cool.

[simonlang]

nice find! :D

theoretically it should be not too difficult to hack this into the regular explorer search process ... :p

was the gadget search ever meant to be that way or did ms just forgot to cut it down as they did with other ex-longhorn functions? any ideas?

[Linkinfamous]

theoretically it should be not too difficult to hack this into the regular explorer search process ... :p

Actually, yes it would be. You'd have to basically write your own shell extention for handling search.

[Luis.A]

NICE AS HELL! Great find. As of now I hate windows search :@

[Island Dog]

Very interesting. Thanks!

:)

[soMzE]

Very nice find, i think when windows7 will come out, it will be full of those cool animations :yes:

and i believe vista is capable of doing it already! Like new window animations, icon effects etc. etc. ,

Doesn't somebody think that there are some registry tricks out there that can enable such animations? Or maybe a future service pack?

Edited December 28, 2007 by soMzE

[BilliShere]

friggin awesome man.. i think we will have to wait till another windows version till this gets implemented.. or maybe as a windows ultimate extra

[Blodia]

That's pretty cool. But probably one of the reasons for not including it is it would probably take too much resources to keep updating the search on the fly, especially when you're looking through an entire hard drive. The animation for that would be choppy and whacky to say the least.

[Commodore Max]

Nice ! Never noticed that ...

[Brandon Live Veteran]

that's cool!

i guess why they don't use this feature in the regular vista search, is that all swapping en rescheduling of icons make eyes wobbly

In Vista (as in previous versions), Explorer uses the ListView common control. The Gadget dialog is obviously completely a custom UI, and not using ListView. It's much easier to do fancy stuff like that when you have a very specialized, custom UI... and don't have to worry about tens or hundreds of thousands of items, groups, sorting, selection tracking, thumbnail generation, virtualization, etc.

[jimbo11883]

That's what I thought, Brandon. The Gadget dialog is very nice, but the only problem I have with it is that I feel that the text glow on links should of been a little brighter, to improve readability more.