New util: MC Menu Mender

[Novalak]

what time frame are you looking at?

[aanda6]

Advent, that is looking very nice. Lots of pats on the back comming your way soon.

[Advent]

what time frame are you looking at?

It's hard to say - I can only work on this in my spare time, which isn't exactly a constant

Still, there are a couple of long weekends coming up, so hopefully i'll have a version with the very bare functionality ready for testing in a couple of weeks.

[aanda6]

My hand is up if you need any beta testing done. Also I am more that willing to donate cash to the cause if that will assist in the development of what looks like being just about the most important plugin for vmc yet.

[jr_kng]

wow the new version look very niceee.
Really hop you will get i to work.

[Advent]

My hand is up if you need any beta testing done. Also I am more that willing to donate cash to the cause if that will assist in the development of what looks like being just about the most important plugin for vmc yet.

Cheers. I'll certainly have a prominent donate button when I get to beta, feel more than free to click on it then

[Novalak]

Cheers. I'll certainly have a prominent donate button when I get to beta, feel more than free to click on it then

Honestly mate, if i were you i would charge (something small) for the app

This is the app most people are after and i really think people would pay $5 (or there abouts) for it, i know i would

[Advent]

Honestly mate, if i were you i would charge (something small) for the app

This is the app most people are after and i really think people would pay $5 (or there abouts) for it, i know i would

I don't know, I don't really want to charge people for something they'll probably only use once or twice, and could do manually if they really wanted to. Besides, if I did, i'd have to deal with licensing, hosting, etc (and all the costs that go with that) - just about as much work as the app in the first place Having said that, actually making some money for all this effort does sound nice.

Anyway, another quick update for anyone that is interested - i'm still working on it, and have most features working nicely:

• Moving items between strips
• Reordering items within a strip
• Reordering strips
• Changing default item for a strip
• Changing default strip
• Disabling strips
• Disabling items within a strip
• Adding 3rd party items to strips (still only one allowed on built in strips, any number on custom strips (no more 5 item limit))

Just want to finish a few more things before letting people play with (i.e. break ) it:

• Adding new custom strips
• Editing text for strips/items

Probably another week or so, depends on how much time I get to spend on it.

[saxnix]

It is sounding really good - useful. Keep up the great work.

[jadel]

Awesome , cant wait, this will make me reinstall vista again. Went back to MCE cus of the horrible menus in vista.

[dannybuoy]

I don't know, I don't really want to charge people for something they'll probably only use once or twice, and could do manually if they really wanted to. Besides, if I did, i'd have to deal with licensing, hosting, etc (and all the costs that go with that) - just about as much work as the app in the first place Having said that, actually making some money for all this effort does sound nice.

Make it donationware then. Put a paypal link in the first post of the thread and anyone who wants to thank you in $ can do so! I for one would like to be able to try before I buy and I'm sure many people would be willing to donate to a developer like yourself who uses their free time to improve Microsoft's half finished product!

[surge]

I've attached a quick progress shot - not all this is fully functional yet, but it's coming along nicely. Drag & drop to move items around between strips, uncheck the strip to disable it.

Nice.. I wonder if this will allow me to enable my non-existent "Sport Strip".. I'm in the US so I should have it, but I don't.