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

[itsnotabigtruck]

1. That is list persistence. Please read before you post.

2. That I will fix.

Also, I just noticed if you close the manager, it still downloads if there are any items not done or canceled. If you want to stop the download, you need to kill it.

I hate Firebird. :x

Edited December 20, 2003 by memodude

[Knight']

Why not use Firebird nightly, it has a download manager that looks even better than IEs on Longhorn.

[itsnotabigtruck]

@Knight': 1. Could you post a screenshot of that manager? 2. I hate Firebird.

@all: I'm almost done with the latest alpha, I'm working on cancel/pause/resumation. I also added the tenths and hundredths of a megabyte. Soon I'm going to add multithreading support so I can have multiple threads for faster downloading.

[zachman123]

Been looking around, anyone know of how to get the cool looking listboxes (like in LH d/l manager, Rhymbox, etc) in XP. I'm willing to help out with this project (I know some VB.NET, mostly do C# tho) but I don't know any http/ftp/etc.

Keep up the great work everyone!

[csabo2]

Hmm, you have a link to firebird's nightly ?

[zachman123]

on Mozilla's site... here's the ftp of all nightly builds http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/

it's a http or a ftp, your choice

[itsnotabigtruck]

About cool listboxes: It's just a gradient. I'll add it soon. First I want to get the downloading working.

About Firebird: Please don't tell me to use Firebird or discuss Firebird in this topic, it's totally off-topic! ;)

[freakyfriday]

have a great christmas, and i hope you release a new version, also could you add Queue?

[zachman123]

About cool listboxes: It's just a gradient. I'll add it soon. First I want to get the downloading working.

Yea thanx. I wasn't rushing you on it for the download man. project, just wanted to use it for my own AIM client I'm making in c#.

thanx, and keep up the good work!

[zachman123]

O.k. I'm missing something... how do you make custom sized listboxes... usually my programs don't involve them because I hate how they look.

Also, I know it's in c# but substitute this for Me, etc, etc and why doesn't this work?

Image image = Image.FromFile("C:\\TV.bmp");
this.BackgroundImage = image;

thanx a lot

[zachman123]

sorry about the triple post, but just wanted to say I found out how at http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive312.html (it's for c#)

I had just never had to do an owner drawn listbox. Thanx for the help

[Knight']

About cool listboxes: It's just a gradient. I'll add it soon. First I want to get the downloading working.

About Firebird: Please don't tell me to use Firebird or discuss Firebird in this topic, it's totally off-topic! ;)

Well, I wasn't even talking to you, so go bog off. :pinch: And it was only a suggestion, because the latest Firebird nightly has a really nice download manager (that works) that's similar to the one featured in the Longhorn 4051 build. So I wouldn't call it off topic, more of a helpful realistic suggestion.

[itsnotabigtruck]

O.k. I'm missing something... how do you make custom sized listboxes... usually my programs don't involve them because I hate how they look.

Also, I know it's in c# but substitute this for Me, etc, etc and why doesn't this work?

Image image = Image.FromFile("C:\\TV.bmp");
this.BackgroundImage = image;

thanx a lot

I created a control, DownloadListBoxItem, that defines an entry in the listbox, and another control, DownloadListBox, with AutoScroll set to True, and with a collection of DownloadListBoxItems.

[freakyfriday]

what's the news on this?

what have you got working now

[itsnotabigtruck]

I haven't worked on this for a little while.

[Smufie]

Looking forward to the final product... and that it's being made in .NET makes it even better :)

[freakyfriday]

what's the news? have you worked on it yet

[chale9466]

I've been waiting to see this also

[freakyfriday]

bump

what's new?

[Autoexec]

Cant see the point in making the effort personally

www.getright.com

[Smufie]

Maybe for fun? The challenge? I'm sure he's not trying to beat all other download managers in his effort!

[chale9466]

I believe alot of us are waiting to see whats new. A personel achievement.

[Autoexec]

oh no plz dont take it personally i was just sticking up for memodude.

he probably hasnt got time for such a project. Id certainly give up when i know theres stuff out there thats had years of dev.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Just a few bugs

1. The tool bar icons arnt 32bit, although the images in the rar were

2. If you decide to add a file, then cancel the inputboxes, it throws an exception.

Apart from that, it looks good

Also, im sure you can write a browser helper object in .net, you just have to expose it to com.

[chale9466]

Yes I'm sure he has other projects he's working on or something.