EVE Technology Lab

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I tested it yesterday and I really like it.

The only problem I've found is, that if you start another DirectX Game, not EVE, the Preview windows turn white. At least they did it for me.
Edit. It "just" happens if I start another Game in Full Screen and tab back to the desktop.

Two things I would like to see changed are the removal of the Header bar of the Preview window. The part which says "Preview". So they use up a little bit less space and you can cluster them even tighter.

The other I would like are saved settings. Basically the Options "Always on Top" etc. and of course window positions should be stored but I'm sure you are woking on that one :)

btw. it works fine on Vista.

v 1.2

changelog:

* persistent settings
* option to hide the thumbnail frames
* clicking thumbnail restores clients from minimized (but not maximized)
* if unique layout option used, better handling of initial positioning
* icon in setting window
* link to this thread in setting window :)

- clicking and entry in the client list in setting window no longer brings that client up

tried 1.3, works well, thank you for this

bump!

Hey thanks for the updates.
Really fell in love with this tool. It's allowed me to play fullscreen with every client instead of cascading them. Really creative, and ingenious method too.

I really look forward to seeing this continued with, and expanded.

I do however have a request.

Customized border's. I loved the no border update, and immediately redneck'd one using a chat window to allow for this overlay to seem apart of the UI.

Honestly though bro. I think you figured out how CCP should handle single account, dual active character's. Of course both being plex'd. Have it so the second pilot is displayed as an active thumbnail, if plex'd of course, and allow the player to swap display between the two.

Thanks for the kind words guys! I'm glad you like it.


You mean like skinning them to look live eve UI? I think that's outside my scope of know-how. I'll give it some thought tho.

As for future work/directions:

I want to do some internal housekeeping to solve some issues (that you might or might not have noticed).

I also want to toy around with having just one preview window, where all the clients are automatically tiled inside. (as an option)

Another direction I want to mess around with is having "layout styles", as in clicking a button would arrange all the previews and the clients as well for you.

We'll see what happens. I don't want the project to grow too big as that will lead me out of the happy ignorant greenfield enthusiasm zone :)

Real easy to use after I updated to the .net 4.5.

Only upgrade I see this needing is the eve UI skin mentioned. However, with borderless frames and a little bit of twiddling, the frames can be resized and aligned to fit into my existing UI's plethora of windows.

Hey well I noticed that if you oversize beyond the window's size it displays a black background. If anything is there a way you can make it so the color of the background can be changed? after that all you would need to work is aligning the display so that it's center'd and you'd at least have a means to choose the color to allow for some flow into the ingame's UI.

Another suggestion after using it now for a bit.

Mouseover size increase. Sometime I don't need to switch focus, I merely need to read the information on the other display. As easy as it is to switch displays though I think it would great to simply mouse over and have the display scale to a size we can read off of. Allowing for us to maintain focus, while gathering information off side displays.

Also. Having it so we can display other window's outside of just eve. With this app and this idea, you would save countless miner's from dieing in space. No longer forced to abandon focus to satisfy their carnel desires. :D . Aside from that you could have it so eft, is at the ready when you need to work a fit, or a browser at the mouse's reach ( I know there's an ingame one, but honestly... it pales in functionality to even opera )

Anyways. Thanks and good work.

Well I haven't loaded the new update due to the issue of the fixed window problem.

I will say on 1.4 that I've noticed if you switch between 2 about 3 times any other display disappears until you alt tab it. Then the display shows again.

v 1.7

* new option: zoom on hover - will zoom the preview when hovering over it
* new option: show overlay - will draw the title of the preview target as text overlay on the preview

EDIT:
known new issues:
zoom is buggy if showing the frames
zoom factor is a bit too large? should be an option
overlays sometimes linger after client window being destroyed
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older known issue:
when not using the unique layout option, locations are not stored persistently.