Here is a description I posted for someone on another forum:
Well, I have big plans, but to avoid feature creep, the first version will consist of the following.
The basic idea is to reduce disk thrashing by starting off 6 QuickPar verifies at once, and extracting and moving a bunch of files simultaneously.
There will be a right click context menu (ExQueues) in the explorer and any other file manager that uses the system based shell extensions(like directory opus). The menu will look something like the following:
Copy
Paste
(standard, etc..)
ExQueues->
Join
Join with delete
Extract to
Extract with delete
Move
Then under Extract there will be a submenu like this:
ExQueues->Extract->
c:\burn
c:\zips
<choose>
There will be a system tray based application that then accepts these commands
You will be able to right click more than one file at once, so to extract three rar set, just select the first rar for each, and right click.
Technically what will happen is that when a right click begins, the shell extension will ask the systray app what the context menu should look like, so that the systray can add things or modfiy the behavior based on the file type (such as don't offer extract for part002.rar, just part001.rar and .rar without part##.).
Here is what my gui looks like so far. This is my first gui app in years, so it's taking me a little longer than expected (note: the icons were lifted and modified from azureus):
(This may or may not work. Photobucket is done right now, so I'm using ofoto)
For the first version only rar will be supported. But I plan on adding ace and zip support shortly after.
The first version may or may not support DDE based file support for drag and drop in directory opus. Basically what I want to do is take over the ctrl-drag and drop or similar (using DOpus support for this), so that a default action occurs without having to right click, etc. More natural that way.
Future versions will support using a shell namespace (think Network Neighborhood) to support drag and drop in explorer. And maybe even intergrate the queue gui into the explorer that way. Or maybe create drop target 'shortcuts' that you can add to your main directories themselves so you don't have to navigate too far.
Quickpar (with a decent CLI) should be supported too. The idea is to have a user right click a par2 file and select Verify and Extract with delete, and have the entire task chain added to the queue. This allows much better utilization of file cacheing, plus your system doesn't become unusable. Wink
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Here is a description I posted for someone on another forum:
Well, I have big plans, but to avoid feature creep, the first version will consist of the following.
The basic idea is to reduce disk thrashing by starting off 6 QuickPar verifies at once, and extracting and moving a bunch of files simultaneously.
There will be a right click context menu (ExQueues) in the explorer and any other file manager that uses the system based shell extensions(like directory opus). The menu will look something like the following:
Copy
Paste
(standard, etc..)
ExQueues->
Join
Join with delete
Extract to
Extract with delete
Move
Then under Extract there will be a submenu like this:
ExQueues->Extract->
c:\burn
c:\zips
<choose>
There will be a system tray based application that then accepts these commands
You will be able to right click more than one file at once, so to extract three rar set, just select the first rar for each, and right click.
Technically what will happen is that when a right click begins, the shell extension will ask the systray app what the context menu should look like, so that the systray can add things or modfiy the behavior based on the file type (such as don't offer extract for part002.rar, just part001.rar and .rar without part##.).
Here is what my gui looks like so far. This is my first gui app in years, so it's taking me a little longer than expected (note: the icons were lifted and modified from azureus):
(This may or may not work. Photobucket is done right now, so I'm using ofoto)
http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=911610928105&photoid=811610928105
For the first version only rar will be supported. But I plan on adding ace and zip support shortly after.
The first version may or may not support DDE based file support for drag and drop in directory opus. Basically what I want to do is take over the ctrl-drag and drop or similar (using DOpus support for this), so that a default action occurs without having to right click, etc. More natural that way.
Future versions will support using a shell namespace (think Network Neighborhood) to support drag and drop in explorer. And maybe even intergrate the queue gui into the explorer that way. Or maybe create drop target 'shortcuts' that you can add to your main directories themselves so you don't have to navigate too far.
Quickpar (with a decent CLI) should be supported too. The idea is to have a user right click a par2 file and select Verify and Extract with delete, and have the entire task chain added to the queue. This allows much better utilization of file cacheing, plus your system doesn't become unusable. Wink