Powerfull media interface software. Image thumbnails, video thumbnails and album art. Support for windows network file sharing. Advanced touchscreen orientated interface. Large buttons and very easy navigation. Multiple screen support.
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Me and Dan moved house this Summer, and in the ensuing chaos have neglected to do much development to Nucleus V2. We're both currently working on adapting a php-nuke site for our counter-strike:source clan at the moment, so are a little bit busy! Nucleus V2 has hit a stable(ish) point and does 90% of what we want it to do. As it started out as a personal project for our media computers we've not really seen any reason to add more functionality to it at the moment. If you've downloaded NucleusV2 and you're using it or have an interesting idea or use for it and it doesn't do what you want it to do PLEASE EMAIL US at nucleus.development@dineley.com and let us know! We've not given up on Nucleus, we're just busy doing other stuff!
-- 27/03/2007 - v2.264 -- MULTIPLE MONITOR SUPPORT!!! Using the f1 to f4 keys you can test the new multiple monitor switching. Setting the Monitor displays in the settings now works. More config changes will work on the fly, including monitor settings. Support for dynamically changing screen resolution. Doesn't detect when changes occur yet but will soon. -- 24/02/2007 - v2.263 -- Auto-Queue will only add hte next track 5 seconds before the curent one ends. Cut down on code execution to speed up. Fixed a lot of randomness with the NowPlaying screen. Added support for "dragging" in list view. Finaly added browse menu. Completely coded new root menu system with last folder, playing folder. Config program is now launchable in the browse menu. Added support for future application launching. Config Launch Nucleus button now works. -- 17/02/2007 - v2.255 -- Config Program Finaly released!! Few bugs but mostly finished. Adder new folder up button. Added new thumbnail resizing buttons. Added new m3u icon. Fixed bugs with m3u loading. Fixed video thumbnails going crazy in playlist. Fixed Clicking on blank space in the playlist removing the last item. Fixed Videos in playlist being draw as if they were thumbnailed. Fixed Issue with getting remote playing data causeing computer text to disapear completely. Fixed Long text causeing rendering errors. When searching computers, rendering overlays still now fixed. Main text in browse view is now black bordered. Nucleus computers now display info much better and send version number. Text in now playing no has a black border to aid visiblility. Added Support for "LockedMode" setting that hides the minimize/exit button. Fixed green highlighting so its recursive. Updated humbnails resize code to fix minor issues. Opimized thumbnail loading and resizing code. -- 15/02/2007 - v2.250 -- Added new settings support and expanded ini file. Ini file now sets all Nucleus timed events properly. Override backgroud picture is now working. AutoQueue can be turned on off in the ini file. All settings save automatically if changed whilst in nucleus. Loads of settings now completed and working. Swap mouse mode to lock playlist now availible. Fixed lots of minor bugs. Fixed major rendering errors with search screen. Added highlighting on curent file in playlist and browse view. -- 14/02/2007 - v2.240 -- Fixed more bugs with new text displays getting confused. Stopped extra long file and folder names from breaking the displays. Added Nucleus logo on computers when they are running Nucleus. Tidied up text to display what remote computer is playing. Images now preload int the background to speed up slideshows. Auto add now adds the next item into the playlist before the current file has finished playing. Added some better memory management to stop huge playlists and folders of images eating up RAM. Fixed bug where some button text is displayed grey when it should be white. Fixed Audio and Video Auto-Queue not displaying correctly in playlist and now playing, still some bugs. Fixed first line of ReadMe.txt not being bold. -- 13/02/2007 - v2.235 -- Added support for forcing windows to login to remote computers if no existing sesion is found. If default windows username and password doesn't work Nucleus will try "Guest". If that doesn't work then it will now show the default windows login dialog box and promt for username and password. Printers no longer show up as shares in the computer share view. When viewing folders in list view the subfolder and files counts now auto wrap to the next line. Moved the small text in list view down a bit. got rid of trailing " - " on Empty folders. -- 09/02/2007 - v2.229 -- Fixed a few formating issues with new text on thumbnails. Still some bugs. Made the thumbnail code faster. List view now has a 8pixel gap between items. -- 08/02/2007 - v2.228 -- Recoded the look of large thumbnail text. Lots of system wide gui changes with text display. Browsing audio now loads mp3 data on the fly. Folders now list sub folders and file count on the fly. Lots of text will be draw in the the wrong places at the moment. -- 07/02/2007 - v2.224 -- Changed gui font sizes slightly. Thumbnails now display text on top of image. -- 06/02/2007 - v2.223 -- Fixed various thumbnail issues. -- 03/02/2007 - V2.221 -- Started coding new 'better' image resizing code, works but very slow. Tweaked around with the forms and how they overlap in single head mode. Tidied up startup loading sequence to stop crazy black boxes and stuff apearing. When a video ends or there is nothing playing, the media screen now defaults to the bg picture. Play/Pause button now displays correct image. Now Playing timeout is now 30seconds. -- 29/01/2007 - V2.219 -- Background picture now displays the current machines desktop picture instead. New icons in nowplaying screen. Added more informationa s to what Auto Queue is doing. Fixed a few rendering bugs in the nowplaying screen. -- 24/01/2007 - V2.214 -- Added extra code to stop progress bar text from overlapping the duration and timer text. Started coding the vertical marquee for the progress bar. Now playing screen now has simple animation when switching between tracks. Fixed bug where the thumbnails in now playing didn't refresh correctly. -- 24/01/2007 - V2.213 -- Nucleus will no longer allow multiple instances. Long files with no spaces now wrap correctly. Full text display now working for now playing screen. Added brand new 'stock' video and audio thumbnails. :D Re-designed now playing screen to be horizontal instead of vertical. changed default font from bold arial to standard verdana. Mousewheel support disabled temporarily (due to debugging problems with vb) Browse text becomes full white colour on mouse hover over. -- 23/01/2007 - V2.204 -- Added Green colour set. Not sure what to do with it yet though! :p -- 22/01/2007 - V2.203 -- Current menu highlights in green. Updated Now Playing Screen to show larger thumbnail image for the current playing item. Thumbnails now still show the file icon in the top left to provide extra info as to what the file is. Added full support for BMP and GIF file extensions. Fixed files larger than 2048MB being flagged as not a valid file. Fixed bug where moving away from the network computers screen causes the buttons to re-appear when finished connecting. Added support for thumb nailing video files. Currently disabled as its VERY slow and not that useful. Added ability to prefer local .ini file when present if running from remote location. Fixed random stuff when loading a folders image thumbnail. Added mousewheel support for all lists. Note: when scrolling faster than the display can update it will wait until youve finished scrolling before redrawing the screen. Now displays Readme.txt when first run. -- 20/10/2006 - V2.188 -- Added Sync services. Made right click/hold on computer sync to that computer. Improved syncing code. Added ability to query remote Nucleuss. Shows playing tracks in network view if computer is running nucleus. When minimized, video/visualization doesnt show after 5 seconds anymore. When paused the progress indicator no longer returns to 0. -- 15/08/2006 - V2.157 -- Thumbnails are currently set at 300x300px for debugging and playing with. Fixed missing readme.txt file causing startup module to fail. -- 06/08/2006 - V2.152 -- Decided back button needs a completely unique icon, preferably the same as windows explorer. Item numbers in play list looked ungainly and decided to leave as is. If there is no folder.jpg, nucleus will look for the first picture file in the folder to use as a thumbnail for folders and music files instead. Thumnbails now show the item icon on top of thumbnail picture. Moved all item icons further to the top left of the buttons to allow more space when viewing thumbnails. Completely revamped thumbnail generation code for higher quality thumbnails. Full support for changing size of list items and resulting thumbnails. Played with image loading code to try to speed up resizing of images. Made small images automatically get resized up for now. -- 31/7/2006 - V2.149 -- Fixed cdrom tracks bugging now playing screen. Added Audio Track in front of just number titles of cd tracks. Decided not to move to the right of the thumbnail boxes. Added 5 second timer to redisplay visuals if they have been minimized. Stopped next file trigger from auto showing visuals. Fixed clicking on media in dual screen mode causing picture form to still be displayed. Manual trigger of new file always shows visuals. Hid mouse cursor when over visuals. Blinking Clock Increased font size of clock and timers to 26 .pt Added Space bar to pause/play the current item. Added next and previous track keys, < and > -- 6/7/2006 - V2.145 -- Fixed loading buttons displaying wrong information and finished code for Loading screen. If the playlist is blank and you que files up, Nucleus will autoplay the first file. When queing up tracks when the end of the playlist has been reached nucleus will now auto play the new file. Thinned the borders of the browsing objects to make the look a bit less chunky. Made the browsing text a little darker to see if it looks any better. Added Search String: to the text in the search screen. Known Bugs!! When scrolling in list view on a large folder, items being cached are rendering even if they arent meant to be displayed. Playlist isn't auto caching basic information anymore. Now Playing screen with mp3's shows loading next file when it shouldn't End of Playlist should say Click below to Auto-Queue next file in folder. End of Playlist should say Auto-Queue has reached the end of the folder. End of Playlist should say Auto-Queueing... When cliocking next and next file hasn't been added yet, make auto-queueing text apear... Defaults too intensive Auto refresh computers ever so often 1. Images in playlist dont resize when thumbnail size changes. 7. When deleting in playlist it doesn't return to the current position. 17.Tidy up new slight issues with now playing screen. 4. Major issues with Video thumbnails. 6. Playing a audio cd froma remote location causes strange errors. 7. If media player crashes nucleus crashes.
-- 27/03/2007 - v2.264 -- MULTIPLE MONITOR SUPPORT!!! Using the f1 to f4 keys you can test the new multiple monitor switching. Setting the Monitor displays in the settings now works. More config changes will work on the fly, including monitor settings. Support for dynamically changing screen resolution. Doesn't detect when changes occur yet but will soon. -- 24/02/2007 - v2.263 -- Auto-Queue will only add hte next track 5 seconds before the curent one ends. Cut down on code execution to speed up. Fixed a lot of randomness with the NowPlaying screen. Added support for "dragging" in list view. Finaly added browse menu. Completely coded new root menu system with last folder, playing folder. Config program is now launchable in the browse menu. Added support for future application launching. Config Launch Nucleus button now works. -- 17/02/2007 - v2.255 -- Config Program Finaly released!! Few bugs but mostly finished. Adder new folder up button. Added new thumbnail resizing buttons. Added new m3u icon. Fixed bugs with m3u loading. Fixed video thumbnails going crazy in playlist. Fixed Clicking on blank space in the playlist removing the last item. Fixed Videos in playlist being draw as if they were thumbnailed. Fixed Issue with getting remote playing data causeing computer text to disapear completely. Fixed Long text causeing rendering errors. When searching computers, rendering overlays still now fixed. Main text in browse view is now black bordered. Nucleus computers now display info much better and send version number. Text in now playing no has a black border to aid visiblility. Added Support for "LockedMode" setting that hides the minimize/exit button. Fixed green highlighting so its recursive. Updated humbnails resize code to fix minor issues. Opimized thumbnail loading and resizing code. -- 15/02/2007 - v2.250 -- Added new settings support and expanded ini file. Ini file now sets all Nucleus timed events properly. Override backgroud picture is now working. AutoQueue can be turned on off in the ini file. All settings save automatically if changed whilst in nucleus. Loads of settings now completed and working. Swap mouse mode to lock playlist now availible. Fixed lots of minor bugs. Fixed major rendering errors with search screen. Added highlighting on curent file in playlist and browse view. -- 14/02/2007 - v2.240 -- Fixed more bugs with new text displays getting confused. Stopped extra long file and folder names from breaking the displays. Added Nucleus logo on computers when they are running Nucleus. Tidied up text to display what remote computer is playing. Images now preload int the background to speed up slideshows. Auto add now adds the next item into the playlist before the current file has finished playing. Added some better memory management to stop huge playlists and folders of images eating up RAM. Fixed bug where some button text is displayed grey when it should be white. Fixed Audio and Video Auto-Queue not displaying correctly in playlist and now playing, still some bugs. Fixed first line of ReadMe.txt not being bold. -- 13/02/2007 - v2.235 -- Added support for forcing windows to login to remote computers if no existing sesion is found. If default windows username and password doesn't work Nucleus will try "Guest". If that doesn't work then it will now show the default windows login dialog box and promt for username and password. Printers no longer show up as shares in the computer share view. When viewing folders in list view the subfolder and files counts now auto wrap to the next line. Moved the small text in list view down a bit. got rid of trailing " - " on Empty folders. -- 09/02/2007 - v2.229 -- Fixed a few formating issues with new text on thumbnails. Still some bugs. Made the thumbnail code faster. List view now has a 8pixel gap between items. -- 08/02/2007 - v2.228 -- Recoded the look of large thumbnail text. Lots of system wide gui changes with text display. Browsing audio now loads mp3 data on the fly. Folders now list sub folders and file count on the fly. Lots of text will be draw in the the wrong places at the moment. -- 07/02/2007 - v2.224 -- Changed gui font sizes slightly. Thumbnails now display text on top of image. -- 06/02/2007 - v2.223 -- Fixed various thumbnail issues. -- 03/02/2007 - V2.221 -- Started coding new 'better' image resizing code, works but very slow. Tweaked around with the forms and how they overlap in single head mode. Tidied up startup loading sequence to stop crazy black boxes and stuff apearing. When a video ends or there is nothing playing, the media screen now defaults to the bg picture. Play/Pause button now displays correct image. Now Playing timeout is now 30seconds. -- 29/01/2007 - V2.219 -- Background picture now displays the current machines desktop picture instead. New icons in nowplaying screen. Added more informationa s to what Auto Queue is doing. Fixed a few rendering bugs in the nowplaying screen. -- 24/01/2007 - V2.214 -- Added extra code to stop progress bar text from overlapping the duration and timer text. Started coding the vertical marquee for the progress bar. Now playing screen now has simple animation when switching between tracks. Fixed bug where the thumbnails in now playing didn't refresh correctly. -- 24/01/2007 - V2.213 -- Nucleus will no longer allow multiple instances. Long files with no spaces now wrap correctly. Full text display now working for now playing screen. Added brand new 'stock' video and audio thumbnails. :D Re-designed now playing screen to be horizontal instead of vertical. changed default font from bold arial to standard verdana. Mousewheel support disabled temporarily (due to debugging problems with vb) Browse text becomes full white colour on mouse hover over. -- 23/01/2007 - V2.204 -- Added Green colour set. Not sure what to do with it yet though! :p -- 22/01/2007 - V2.203 -- Current menu highlights in green. Updated Now Playing Screen to show larger thumbnail image for the current playing item. Thumbnails now still show the file icon in the top left to provide extra info as to what the file is. Added full support for BMP and GIF file extensions. Fixed files larger than 2048MB being flagged as not a valid file. Fixed bug where moving away from the network computers screen causes the buttons to re-appear when finished connecting. Added support for thumb nailing video files. Currently disabled as its VERY slow and not that useful. Added ability to prefer local .ini file when present if running from remote location. Fixed random stuff when loading a folders image thumbnail. Added mousewheel support for all lists. Note: when scrolling faster than the display can update it will wait until youve finished scrolling before redrawing the screen. Now displays Readme.txt when first run. -- 20/10/2006 - V2.188 -- Added Sync services. Made right click/hold on computer sync to that computer. Improved syncing code. Added ability to query remote Nucleuss. Shows playing tracks in network view if computer is running nucleus. When minimized, video/visualization doesnt show after 5 seconds anymore. When paused the progress indicator no longer returns to 0. -- 15/08/2006 - V2.157 -- Thumbnails are currently set at 300x300px for debugging and playing with. Fixed missing readme.txt file causing startup module to fail. -- 06/08/2006 - V2.152 -- Decided back button needs a completely unique icon, preferably the same as windows explorer. Item numbers in play list looked ungainly and decided to leave as is. If there is no folder.jpg, nucleus will look for the first picture file in the folder to use as a thumbnail for folders and music files instead. Thumnbails now show the item icon on top of thumbnail picture. Moved all item icons further to the top left of the buttons to allow more space when viewing thumbnails. Completely revamped thumbnail generation code for higher quality thumbnails. Full support for changing size of list items and resulting thumbnails. Played with image loading code to try to speed up resizing of images. Made small images automatically get resized up for now. -- 31/7/2006 - V2.149 -- Fixed cdrom tracks bugging now playing screen. Added Audio Track in front of just number titles of cd tracks. Decided not to move to the right of the thumbnail boxes. Added 5 second timer to redisplay visuals if they have been minimized. Stopped next file trigger from auto showing visuals. Fixed clicking on media in dual screen mode causing picture form to still be displayed. Manual trigger of new file always shows visuals. Hid mouse cursor when over visuals. Blinking Clock Increased font size of clock and timers to 26 .pt Added Space bar to pause/play the current item. Added next and previous track keys, < and > -- 6/7/2006 - V2.145 -- Fixed loading buttons displaying wrong information and finished code for Loading screen. If the playlist is blank and you que files up, Nucleus will autoplay the first file. When queing up tracks when the end of the playlist has been reached nucleus will now auto play the new file. Thinned the borders of the browsing objects to make the look a bit less chunky. Made the browsing text a little darker to see if it looks any better. Added Search String: to the text in the search screen. Known Bugs!! When scrolling in list view on a large folder, items being cached are rendering even if they arent meant to be displayed. Playlist isn't auto caching basic information anymore. Now Playing screen with mp3's shows loading next file when it shouldn't End of Playlist should say Click below to Auto-Queue next file in folder. End of Playlist should say Auto-Queue has reached the end of the folder. End of Playlist should say Auto-Queueing... When cliocking next and next file hasn't been added yet, make auto-queueing text apear... Defaults too intensive Auto refresh computers ever so often 1. Images in playlist dont resize when thumbnail size changes. 7. When deleting in playlist it doesn't return to the current position. 17.Tidy up new slight issues with now playing screen. 4. Major issues with Video thumbnails. 6. Playing a audio cd froma remote location causes strange errors. 7. If media player crashes nucleus crashes.
Well it took some time but it's finally here. This is a strictly beta release and has a lot of unknown bugs. If you find any we would really appreciate any feedback in the forums. You can test the new multi monitor code by pressing F1 to F4 on a dual screen system and play with the results. Enjoy.
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