Finder-like icon view (MIT license)

2010-02-02 Thread Alastair Houghton
Hi all, I thought I'd just post a link to some code I just posted on Google Code. It's been sitting on my disk for ages (since 2005, in fact), somewhat unloved and not quite complete, but I think it's still an interesting bit of code and hopefully someone will find it useful. Here's the URL:

Re: Finder-like icon view (MIT license)

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel DeCovnick
Shiny. I really like the rectangle that appears when you hold shift so you know what will be selected next when you press an arrow key. Can you turn off snap-to-grid? Also, there is a serious spike in memory usage as the test app starts up. It releases most of that memory, but it's still

Re: Finder-like icon view (MIT license)

2010-02-02 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 2 Feb 2010, at 10:51, Daniel DeCovnick wrote: I really like the rectangle that appears when you hold shift so you know what will be selected next when you press an arrow key. Can you turn off snap-to-grid? Yes, you can turn that off; there isn't much documentation, but the methods in