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♠kathras

FAP Browser Alpha

Posted Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Copyright © 2007 ♠Kathras

FAP Browser Alpha by ♠kathras

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To download: save the image somewhere, rename extension to .ZIP, extract and enjoy. Or you can use the FAP Downloader here.

I always seem to get about halfway through a project and decide I want to change up the UI a bunch. Since most of the real work is in the library, I'm not going to lose much progress other than the data templates, and I didn't really like the load times on those anyways.

So, here's the browser in it's unfinished state. Let me know if you can't run it or if it devours small pets!

Edit: Should have put this on here before. This requires the .NET Framework 3.0 to run. You can get it here.

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2 comments

  1. *min

    Comment from *min, 1 year ago (#29714)

    I keep getting an error ;.;
    I can't remember what it is though ^-^; 'application failed to initialize someting something'
  2. °ekigyuu

    Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#29710)

    I can't seem to get it to run?

    What version of .NET does this require?
    ekigyuu Real California Cows | The FAP API
    1. ♠kathras

      Comment from ♠Kathras, 1 year ago (#29722)

      It should run under .NET 3.0. Are you getting a specific error message?
      1. °ekigyuu

        Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#29731)

        Ah ha! That was the problem...I have .NET 2.0 on my machine. Downloaded, installed, and was blown away.

        The app absolutely rocks. Drop shadows, search oh my...

        I noticed it's Alpha, what do you have planned next?
        ekigyuu Real California Cows | The FAP API
        1. ♠kathras

          Comment from ♠Kathras, 1 year ago (#29734)

          I'm glad you like it! Dropshadows and animation are a snap with WPF so I decided, why not? :)

          My machine is pretty crummy so it's sort of laggy once a search is complete. Do you get the same slowdown?

          I was thinking of changing up the UI mostly. I'm thinking of making it look a bit more like Office 2007 with a button in the upper-left corner and ribbons instead of a menu/toolbar layout, but keep the navigation elements too. When it first opens have it load a 'home page' of sorts with recent submissions and the user's messages (when that fAPI comes out).

          As far as new features, I was thinking about search-watches (whenever a search updates you get messages), some sort of way to explore related tags, specialized viewers based on submission type (I can reuse my log viewer code on text submissions and find some way to display Flash) and something that lets you browse your watches favorites (if I like what they make and they make what they like, then I'll like what they like, right?). Maybe open it up so others can write stuff that plugs into it too.
          1. °ekigyuu

            Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#30095)

            Hmm...I might have to read up on my .net...

            I have a gaming machine, but it tends to lag when the browser loads a lot of works.

            I don't have Vista (YET!) so I don't know if I would be able to fully appreciate the ribbon menu-interface, but I'd love to see how you incorporate that.

            Search watches sounds like a groovy idea--a lot of people still don't use RSS feeds and that could help them keep track of tags they like!

            If you could do a tag cloud, or link tags when you full-view a work, that would be really nifty :O
            ekigyuu Real California Cows | The FAP API