smartflip for vista

[her34]

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=529816


video demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYX6YboNA4c


hopefully performance will improve

 

[BD2003]

Much better than flip3d, but still needs some work.

 

[Smilin]

hm. I like flip3d better still. I use it slightly different than most tho. Instead of flipping over and over till I hit the app I want I hit Ctrl+Start+Tab, mousewheel if needed then click the app I want.

 

[dragonic]

Originally posted by: Smilin
hm. I like flip3d better still. I use it slightly different than most tho. Instead of flipping over and over till I hit the app I want I hit Ctrl+Start+Tab, mousewheel if needed then click the app I want.

Hey, never knew about that. You deserve a :beer: for telling that

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: Smilin
hm. I like flip3d better still. I use it slightly different than most tho. Instead of flipping over and over till I hit the app I want I hit Ctrl+Start+Tab, mousewheel if needed then click the app I want.

I still think flip3d is entirely pointless, since one app covers the other. Even alt-tab doesnt do that.

 

[TMoney468]

That looks a lot like Apple's Expose:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/images/indexfeature20050412.jpg

 

[Bluestealth]

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: Smilin
hm. I like flip3d better still. I use it slightly different than most tho. Instead of flipping over and over till I hit the app I want I hit Ctrl+Start+Tab, mousewheel if needed then click the app I want.

I still think flip3d is entirely pointless, since one app covers the other. Even alt-tab doesnt do that.

No its not, it makes people with Vista machines feel special as they waste their own time

 

[postmortemIA]

applications should be "flip-able" on individual basis to free desktop estate, flip3d is useless

 

[ProviaFan]

Flip3D is not nearly as good as Expose. I would have preferred that Microsoft copy Apple's Expose feature instead of trying to "think different" and stepping backward in the process. Smartflip looks interesting - in other words, better than Flip3D - and I plan to try it soon.

 

[fyleow]

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[makken]

gave it a try, but got rid of it pretty quick...

A few problems i ran into was that it was unresponsive, with choppy animation and delayed reaction. Second was that using my scroll wheel to cycle through the windows, i would scroll 3 windows at a time (yes, i have it set to scroll 3 lines per tick, and i intend to keep that setting-I'm able to scroll through flip3d's windows one at a time via the scrollwheel). and finally, i have a mouse button bound to flip3d. when i try to rebind smartflip's activation to the default flip3d key, my mouse button would activate both flip3d and smartflip... made for some interesting results.

I'm not a big fan flip3d myself, and wish microsoft followed expose's suit a little better instead of trying to show off their 3d features. maybe i'll give it another shot later, but the performance issues (flip3d is silky smooth), and the flip3d conflicts was a big, big turn off for me

 

[TMoney468]

One thing that expose is good for is when you have multiple windows of the same application open, which I routinely do for web design (firefox). Alt-tab just brings up the top-most window, whereas Expose lets me see all of the available windows and choose the one I'm looking for.

 

[fyleow]

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[TMoney468]

I just meant that when having multiple windows of Firefox or multiple Photoshop documents open, using alt-tab only brings up the top-most page/window. Using Expose lets me see the lower-level pages/documents, which Alt-tab doesn't let me. All though that would be a pretty cool feature to cycle through tabs.

 

[Cerb]

Alt-tab does let you go through them all--just don't release alt until you've found the one you're looking for. Unless I'm missing something (words suck for describing moving images, no?)

(still not as good as Expose, E17's alt-tab, nor KDE's)

P.S. NM, I get it--awesome (though, how does it do with 50+ tabs? )

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: fyleow

Originally posted by: TMoney468
One thing that expose is good for is when you have multiple windows of the same application open, which I routinely do for web design (firefox). Alt-tab just brings up the top-most window, whereas Expose lets me see all of the available windows and choose the one I'm looking for.

What do you mean? If you have multiple tabs open in firefox you can see all of them and pick which one you want using Expose? That's pretty cool if you can do that. If you have multiple Firefox windows open you can still cycle through them using alt-tab, but you can't cycle through tabs.

It's just a matter of time before an Expose clone is released for Vista. It shouldn't be too difficult to do using WPF.

You can cycle through firefox tabs, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+Tab instead of alt+tab..

Use alt+tab for windows and ctrl+tab for tabs.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: TMoney468
I just meant that when having multiple windows of Firefox or multiple Photoshop documents open, using alt-tab only brings up the top-most page/window. Using Expose lets me see the lower-level pages/documents, which Alt-tab doesn't let me. All though that would be a pretty cool feature to cycle through tabs.

Windows has a feature similar but not the same as expose' it's called tile. All you have to do is right click the taskbar and select Tile windows Vertically or horizontally. The current Flip 3D implimentation in Windows Vista is much more like the cascade feature, kinda pointless...

 

[TMoney468]

^Thanks for that ctrl+tab shortcut, I never knew that and that'll be extremely useful!

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Flip3D is not nearly as good as Expose. I would have preferred that Microsoft copy Apple's Expose feature instead of trying to "think different" and stepping backward in the process. Smartflip looks interesting - in other words, better than Flip3D - and I plan to try it soon.

Try MyExpose.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango

You can cycle through firefox tabs, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+Tab instead of alt+tab..

Use alt+tab for windows and ctrl+tab for tabs.

Cool this also works for Opera too

 

[fyleow]

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