AjaXplorer

After a long time without having time to release but integrating functionnalities in the SVN, finally here comes the 2.3.5!

Brand new skin for improved clarity and usability, excellent performances due the javascript compression, several bug fixes. You can now create the repositories via the GUI (in the Settings panel, logged in as admin), and use the special keywords AJXP_INSTALL_PATH and AJXP_USER in the repository definition to make users private repositories.

Compatibility should be total with 2.3.4. This is a release candidate for AjaXplorer 2.4, please feed the forums and bug trackers on sourceforge to track down the issues!

Download page : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192639

F.A.Q : See the page “Frequently Asked Questions” in the right column on this site.

Tested : Windows [ Firefox 2 & 3, Safari, IE 6 & 7 and Opera ], Linux [ Firefox 2 ]

AjaXplorer 2.2.1 is now released.

You can download it at :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/

This release focuses on bugfixes from release 2.2, mainly making the system work on Safari and Opera, as well as integrating the Dutch and Spanish translations.

BUGS FIXED (among others)

1835337 IE6 Dialog window : image not displayed in title
1835328 IE Search Results Icons not displayed
1835085 Search results : folder have broken icon
1835001 Thumb display : block when lots of photos
1834995 IE bugs on first multiple upload
1834993 Opera not working
1834991 Safari not working
1832346 Do not catch ctrl+key
1832344 “Show larger image” link
1830277 IE : tab not working in modal dialogs
1830275 Browser cannot remember login/password
1830274 Headers when screen is very large

AjaXplorer is now fully functionnal with this last functionnality that was missing : the users management. Administrator can give read and/or write access for each user and each repository, users can save their own preferences (for the moment language and display mode), and a guest user can be enabled.

Plus minor bug fixes and lookNfeel enhancements, as well as i18n (french language fully functionnal) and libraries upgrade (prototype and scriptaculous).

Download on Sourceforge. Enjoy!

+ New powerful functionnality : Thumbnails display

+ Bug Correction :
1809300 : Mac+Firefox problem fixed,
1809299 : Multi-Racine : broken functionnality in v2.0
1809297 : GUI broken when resizing window too small
1752873 : BM Bar mess everything up when too many bookmarks

Please download at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/

I’m proud to announce the Ajaxplorer 2.0 release.

Download here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/

Features

• Totally new GUI, really Ajax oriented, no more HTML frame, no more page reloading.
• Backward compatibility for all file actions (cf previous releases) : copy/move, rename, delete (recursive), create dir/file, download…
• Online files edition and syntax highlighting (see prev. releases)
• [new] InfoPanel : gives more info on the file, especially images files. Images preview
• [new] Search Engine : search for a string in the filenames, in the current directory and sub directories.
• [new] Play mp3 online without downloading them
• [new] View images online as a diaporama inside a given folder.
• [new] Better multiple file upload monitoring : when you upload many files, they are sent one by one so you can better follow the upload.
• [new] Start screen and load progress : the script is quite heavy to load at first time, there is progress bar for dynamic library loading and GUI initialization.

Tests & Known Bugs

• AjaXplorer has been tested on FireFox2 on windows and mac, on IE6 and IE7 on windows. It is best displayed on FF but is working quite good too on IE. Some minor bugs to fix though.
• AjaXplorer does not need any database, only PHP to run. It has been tested on PHP4.3 and PHP5.
• There is a strong display bug with bookmarks bar : when there are too many bookmark, the layout below the bar is totally messed up. I will try to fix that as soon as possible.
• Bug with”&” character in folder names : it mess up a lot of things to use “&” characters in files or folders. I will work on this (normalization of XML data…)

Credits

• There are some new libraries and widgets involved, please check the “info” button when you have installed.
• Here is a short list of sites to visit (more infos in the credits screen) :
  • http://www.prototypejs.org/
  • http://jquery.com/
  • http://methvin.com/jquery/jq-corner.html
  • http://methvin.com/jquery/splitter/
  • http://webfx.eae.net/
  • http://www.eight.nl/files/leightbox/
  • http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/
  • http://www.codepress.org/
  • http://www.alsacreations.fr/mp3-dewplayer.html

Screenshots

Main View

Multiple Selection

Multiple Upload

Multiple Download

Dialog Windows : copy to…

Recycle Bin folder

Search Engine

Bookmarks System

Online viewing and Editing

=> Source Code (php, java, js, sql, etc…)

=> Images : Info Panel & Browse a folder in a diaporama

=> MP3 : play online without downloading

Keyboard Shortcuts

Log Messages

1. The keyboard management is now quite complete :

• All actions have a keyboard shortcut (the letter underlined in the button text)
• TAB navigation through the panels
• MAJ and CTRL for performing multiple selections with mouse or up/down keys.
• ESC for cancelling dialog windows

2. Register many root directories to browse and switch between them

3. Basis for image management : image preview and view

4. CodePress integration for syntax highlighting (file edition).

I will have a little refactoring according to my software engineer mate Mathieu, and put new numbers to the releases. The current release are functionnal but still quite experimenting, and I know I will have soon or late to make a huge refactoring. So the versions 1.X will be renamed 0.1.X, in order to attain a first stable version with release 0.2.

The main upcoming features for 0.2 will be :

• Keyboard navigation: shortcuts for all actions
• Users management: users logon, preferences, bookmarks, etc. I still have to think about a nice way of managing user disconnexion, since it is always very messy in framed applications (one frame is disconnected, the other is not, etc.)
• Add many root directories

Some useful features that will come in 0.1.5 (end of the week I think, it is already done, I just need time to package…)

• Better image management : image preview in tooltip when mouseover image file
• CodePress integration for syntax highlighting when editing a code file (js, sql, php, java, perl, css)
• Keyboard events : use UP/DOWN and SHIFT+UP/DOWN to browse and select files in the files list
• Keyboard events : use TAB to navigate between sidebar tree and files list panel

If you have any features request or bug found, please feel free to leave a comment here, or add it in the Sourceforge. trackers.

This new release focuses on multiple selection, and a huge refactoring has been done in the background to prepare for future improvements

• Use of “Maj+click” and “Ctrl+click” to perform multiple selections on either files or folders (or both) and copy/move/delete them at once. Particularly, the copy/move actions were not implemented in the previous versions for folders.
• GUI ideas to help download of many files at once
• Minor display bug fixes
• Huge refactoring : object oriented modularization of the code, both on PHP and JS side. Better configuration handling. Removed unused and confusing config files.

Check http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/