Comments on: Coming soon: Start any program in the Start Menu with a few keystrokes

by: George Zhang

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:56:09 +0000

Hi, I’m working on JDIC, and I like the idea !!! JDIC provides such pieces of APIs, but there is nothing integrated. I’d very much like help set it up under JDIC. From my side, I’ll try to fix those bugs with JDIC Filetypes.

The setting global (desktop-wide) hotkeys and watching a folder for change features were both requested from JDIC before;
https://jdic.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=212
So, it would be great to incubator them in JDIC. They can serve this project, but can also server many other applications.

On the other hand, I’ll contact JShortcut to see if it’s possible to integrate it in JDIC somehow.

And, I’d suggest we propose such ideas in JDIC forum:
http://www.javadesktop.org/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=52
the central place for such proposals. : )

by: Andrew Pietsch

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:19:29 +0000

I would expect the global hotkey library would also be an excellent candidate for JDIC.

Cheers

by: Jesse Wilson

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:58:19 +0000

A JNI library for folder updates would be very valuable in a lot of places througout the JDK. It could even be integrated into a file chooser! If it will be open source, please writing a general API - I’m sure it would be very welcome in JDIC.

by: Keith Lea

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:47:20 +0000

I started this project yesterday, and that screenshot is only after an hour or two of work. I don’t plan to keep the Refresh button. I plan to use JNI to watch for folder changes.

I want to say, Glazed Lists is totally awesome, I wish I had known about it earlier. I use it on exactly two lines of code, and I get all that functionality, from just creating a sorted list and a text field filter list.

by: Jesse Wilson

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:46:03 +0000

I’m the Glazed Lists guy so I’m naturally excited about your project. But there’s one thing on your screenshot that bothers me - the Refresh button! It would be oh-so-much-cooler if your program updated itself automatically.

Unfortunately, implementing a fix for this is fairly complicated. Your options aren’t pleasant:
- poll continuously (ugly), or
- develop JNI services that use the native notification service (hard & error-prone)

As is, you’re probably better off with the “Refesh” button. But I’m going to keep that problem in mind when I’m looking for topics for the Glazed Lists magazine!