Miles of Files
I promise I'll stop thinking of terrible names for blog posts at some point.
Time for a ByteHoard update. I've given it a bit of attention today, and so, among other things, we now have:
- Folder/file navigation working completely; the folder tree, breadcrumb bar and subfolder list all work (this will make a lot more sense with a screenshot; see below)
- Sorting (a feature sorely missing for the last few years) makes a strong entrance. It currently only sorts by name or size (ascending or descending), but I'll throw in types and anything else I can think of later.
- The interface has been tweaked so everything lines up (finally, a justified use of tables) and even the logout works.
There is still much work to be done, but ByteHoard is currently a very nice, fast and useable file lister. I'll be working on adding upload and download next.
As a special reward for reading this far, you get rewarded with a screenshot of the current files interface. This may change, but probably not too much, at least visually.
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Hi,
Does the new version change back to PHP and AJax now? DOes it mean that the new version will not be using python scripting at all (start from scratch again?)
Best Regards,
Yes, that's right. I'll make a news post to clarify the situation further at some point, but yes; it's all PHP, HTML and AJAX now.
I'm having to do some extra work because of that, but I gain a lot of portability and hopefully many happy users so it should be worth it!
Will we able to drag and drop files and folders? It would be definately a neat feature. Real-time preview is nice too
There will be internal drag-and-drop, so you can drag the files from one folder to another, for eaxmple, but no drag-and-drop uploading. And real-time preview... meaning what exactly? There's already thumbnails and viewing in BH2.
Hi,
Sorry not making it clear. By real time preview I mean the first frame of video files.
Ooh, that's a hard one. I'm not sure I can do it directly in PHP, but I may be able to use mencoder or some external program, and make it optional. I'm not sure.
Any idea on a final release date? What about Beta versions to try? Great work!
I'm still not sure on this, as I have quite a few things left to do; uploads and downloads, one of the more basic functionalities, are currently in progress.
I would guess I may have a beta or alpha out before the end of the year, but don't quote me on that.
I'm missing a date/time stamp of the file.. Is this something which will be in the new version? (I didn't saw it on the snapshot)
Yes, that will be on the new version as well as an extra column, along with an option to sort by it (which I think will be the most useful thing).
I'll be adding it once I figure out exactly how single/multiple file selection is going to work.
I use BH2 for my study group.
Keep up the great work on v3!
Good news!!