Click for a teaser screenshot

This is actually a bit scary, because you can load sort-of … anything ;-) To prove it (you’re gonna love this … I should take a video, really, but it’s time for bed, so this will have to do): check this out Beat that! ;)

So yeah, I have this control written from an earlier project which creates a task list with live preview images. When I say “live previews” I mean actually live, like on the Vista Alt+Tab: if there’s a video playing, you can watch it in there (of course, it dies a horrible death on XP, but I have other code for that).

As a side note the TaskBar2.panel stuff is from the TINS release I made months ago, there’s several fun .panel files in there … but you have to load a bunch of the TINS assemblies first, I didn’t distinguish which ones, I just did:


cd C:\Users\Joel\Projects\TechDemos\TINS\bin\Release
ls *.dll,*.exe | % { [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($_) }
$Host.PrivateData.XamlUI.LoadXaml("C:\Users\Joel\Projects\TechDemos\TINS\bin\Release\Panels\TaskBar2.panel");

 

Of course, in .Net 3.5 the RichTextBox has the ability to go ContentEnabled="true" which should allow those things to be actual controls you can click to switch active task, right-click to get a task menu, etc (although I haven’t tried that yet). We might just have to upgrade ;-)

Anyway, it’s past time for bed, so I’ll preempt complaints about how this isn’t ready for release yet with this quote:

I don’t have to take this abuse from you; I’ve got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me. — Bill Murray, “Ghostbusters”