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Nathan Oates
 
 
 

Wed, 07 Dec 2005

Small UI changes
Occasionally I get really good feedback on features and UI improvements people would like to see. I'd class MacTF as "usable but not pretty" software, so feedback like this is great to see where to improve things. Janne from Finland sent a great one with lots of ideas that I've had a crack at adding. Also, while I'm thanking people, my artistic talent is pretty lacking (I'm a scientist by trade, not an artist!) but thanks to Angus Hume, Tofi has a great 3D icon now, and MacTF-EPG has one for the next version too.

So here's some interface changes to look forward to in the next version of MacTF:

  • Drag and drop files to upload them to the current folder (hopefully I can work out downloading too, but that's not done yet)
  • Double-clicking on a file now downloads it.
  • Icons have been added to a column on the left, so it's now easier to tell what's a folder and what's a file (and even which type of file in some cases).

These are all in and seem to work fine (still need to test a bit more), and I'm considering adding a preview drawer so you can see text and ini files without manually downloading them. It may even be possible to edit them, but that will be in a later version.


     
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