Request(Longhorn 4051 Download Manager

[freakyfriday]

hi, can anyone out there program a download manager just like the one in buid 4051?

i'm not a programmer at all, just wondering

and make it work for IE/Netscape/Mozilla/firebird/Opera

Edited December 7, 2003 by freakyfriday

[freakyfriday]

bump

[figgy]

Creating a download manager requires a lot of effort and knowledge.

The programmer needs to understand web protocols: HTTP, HTTPS & FTP, working with firewalls etc.

and in additon he/she needs to know how to create plug-ins for each of the said browsers.

You are asking for a lot of work for free.

Why not just use Longhorn?

[Winston]

post some screenshots of it i'd like to see wat the download manager looks like

[freakyfriday]

Creating a download manager requires a lot of effort and knowledge.

The programmer needs to understand web protocols: HTTP, HTTPS & FTP, working with firewalls etc.

and in additon he/she needs to know how to create plug-ins for each of the said browsers.

You are asking for a lot of work for free.

Why not just use Longhorn?

well Longhorn is alpha and the dowload manager is buggy, but i really like the interface

[freakyfriday]

here is the download manager

[nowimnothing]

its more or less the same (different interface, but same features i think) as MSN 9 has... thats still in beta at the moment, but it should be out soon... if you don't like alpha software you can always try that out...

[Winston]

https://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/...loadmanager.jpg here is the download manager

i mean if i research into it and use this as a demo for learning VB.NET then i might give it a try...

could u post some high res of the buttons or better yet try to get the images of the buttons? :p...

[freakyfriday]

its more or less the same (different interface, but same features i think) as MSN 9 has... thats still in beta at the moment, but it should be out soon... if you don't like alpha software you can always try that out...

do you need an MSN9 service? cause i don't use MSN, i use a different ISP

[Winston]

hey wats in the drop down menu for more options :s and is it wen u click on more options then that settings dialog comes up

[freakyfriday]

hey wats in the drop down menu for more options :s and is it wen u click on more options then that settings dialog comes up

yes, we you click on it, the settings box comes up

[figgy]

do you need an MSN9 service? cause i don't use MSN, i use a different ISP

For MSN 8, you could get the software regardless of who your ISP is.

MSN 9 plans haven't been announced yet.

[Sleeper Veteran]

i know when XP was in beta people where ripping things they like and got them to run on windows 2000, example; WMP8.

Would this not be possible>?

[figgy]

i know when XP was in beta people where ripping things they like and got them to run on windows 2000, example; WMP8.

Would this not be possible>?

There is a ongoing thread about this

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=114383

in the the Longhorn forum.

Anyways, you shouldn't suggest hacking.

[j005u]

could u post some high res of the buttons or better yet try to get the images of the buttons? :p...

i just spent about 45 mins tring to find those in dlls exes. etc no luck :/

i did find a bluetooth logo though, wich seems interesting since xp dont support bluetooth..

[mm3h]

I wish XP did support bluetooth hopefully longhorn will :)

[Redestium]

I'm pretty sure it does, since SP1...

[Winston]

Well any other vb.net pros wanna help me out in making this download manager, i think the main thing is setting the default application to use when a hyperlink that downloads a file is clicked.

[figgy]

the main thing is setting the default application to use when a hyperlink that downloads a file is clicked.

The BeforeNavigate2 or NavigateComplete2 event will help

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0...te/default.aspx

[freakyfriday]

Well any other vb.net pros wanna help me out in making this download manager, i think the main thing is setting the default application to use when a hyperlink that downloads a file is clicked.

cool, so you are going to try and make this? sweet, i'll test it out for ya :)

could you add like a sechulcle and dail-up / hangup

lets say i setup my modem and dial out at 11 p.m and disconnect at 6:00 a.m

or at 12 a.m and disconnect at 7:00 a.m

stuff like that..

and add queue,

here is some pictures that i took. one when you are downloading and right clicking, one when its queued/paused- they have the same menu and one when you click on properies and click on options

Edited December 10, 2003 by freakyfriday

[itsnotabigtruck]

Well, first, extract those start/stop icons with a reshacker. I might try it, I could do a thing that performs concurrent WebClient downloads, though I don't know about hooking into IE. :)

[freakyfriday]

what's the news on this? anyone making it ?

[stezo2k]

that d/l manager looks like the one off the latest mozilla firebird nightly builds :)

[Redestium]

that d/l manager looks like the one off the latest mozilla firebird nightly builds :)

No wonder MS wants to keep Aero under wraps. Someone will just swipe it. :o

[itsnotabigtruck]

@freakyfriday: Post the icons! If you want this thing made you better show a lot more interest in it than you are showing right now.

[Winston]

i managed to get the layout and icons but to the coding side.. err :p...

sum 1 can add that

here attached the project