All my music is classified by genre
At last my Projects are organized !
March the 14, 2006
This is a bugfix release, to fix the "Change icon" feature that was broken in v1.4.1. I also disabled the "Change Drive Icon" feature : I can't get it to work, due to poor Explorer Autorun handling. You can download the new version here.
February the 23, 2006
Flyakite and me worked together this days to offer you an even better version of iColorFolder. We spoted and fixed a lot of bugs, and now everything should work as expected.
First the new feature : you can customize the icon of Drives. However, due to poor Windows refresh system, changes will only take effect after a reboot. I've also updated the Windows XP skin, which is now available in high resolution (up to 128*128), thanks to XPero icons and Flyakite work.
The others things are mostly bug fixes, lot of them, check the changelog for more infos. You can download the new version here.
February the 19, 2006
iColorFolder 1.4 is online, and you should like it.
To begin, the program has been entirely rewritten in C++ ; thus the .NET Framework is no more needed. Then, Flyakite told me how to do to take in count the changes to the folder immediately ; you don't need anymore to refresh Explorer view to see the new color or icon of a folder. Finally, about the skins, the Vista skin has been updated, with the help of Nobo. The SnowE2 skin has been removed from the default pack, and been replaced by the gorgeous Agua skin, made by Ced with David Lanham's icons.
You can see the full changelog here, and download the new version here As a good new comes never alone, the Additional Skin Pack has been updated ! The Vista Extended skin has been updated, with lot of new icons, and two new skins were added, Agua Extended and IcOsX, both by Ced, from icons by David Lanham and MithXepiX. You can download the Additional Skin Pack from the Download page.
January the 19h, 2006
iColorFolder 1.3 is online, with some littles changes and bugfixes. The installer now check you have Admin Rights before installing iColorFolder, the interface of the Skin Selector has been reworked, and some Mono-related bugs were fixed. I've also reorganized the tree of the sources, which is now cleaner, and added some batch files to compile easily iColorFolder. Thats means any developper can now build the application from the sources (and even the Setup) with a single click - cool !. You can see the full changelog here, and download the new version here.
By the way, another annoucement : this version will be the last C# version of iColorFolder. I need to improve my C++ skills, and started to port the current sources in C++. For the end-user, that's mean you won't need the .NET Framework anymore - and there was much rejoicing. I hope to release this future version in one month or two, and an updated Skin Pack.
September the 26th, 2005
The screenshots in the Screenshot Section were rather old, I just re-made them and added lot of new previews, like a picture of the Skin Selector. There is also several pictures of the extra skins (included in the Additional Skin Pack).
September the 22th, 2005
This is not a major release, but it brings some cool stuff, in iColorFolder and around.
First, iColorFolder 1.2 has been released, with the usual lot of improvements and bugfixes. The main news is probably the support of the Mono Framework. Mono is a Open alternative to the Microsoft .NET Framework, which is needed to run iColorFolder. If you have the Mono Runtime, it will be detected by the setup program, and you'll be able to run iColorFolder using Mono.
I've also fixed some bugs in the Skin Selector, added some options to the installer, reworked some skins... You can see the full changelog here, and download the new version here.
The second news is the first release of the Additional Skin Pack. This pack adds 7 new skins to iColorFolder, and updates the 4 default skins. The skins is this pack are more rich than the default one and contains more icons - it's the ideal add-on to iColorFolder. Imagine, you can change the whole apparence of your folders twice a week if you want so ! You can download this Skin Pack from the Download page ; be sure to have a look at the Read-Me file during the Setup, it'll give you some useful hints.
September the 2nd, 2005
Mankin recently asked me to add a little feature to iColorFolder : he wanted to be able to change the default icon of his files. I tried to implement this, and here is the result : iColorFolder adds now a little option in the Context menu of every file, nammed "Change icon". When clicking on it, you can select any icon of your choice, which change the icon of all the files of the same type than the clicked file. Small but useful ^^
Like usual, this new release is available on the Download section.
July the 10th, 2005
Here is the 1.0 version of iColorFolder. This release adds some cool features, mainly :I've added too the respect of some special folders icon (for folders like "My pictures", "My Music", etc.) : on these folders, when the entry "None" is selected, the special icon is restored instead of the generic one.
- A Skin Selector
- The customization of the "generic" folder icon
- The ability to use any icon to customize a folder
- A new skin system, cleaner and more simple than before
- Two new skins included in the package, Longhorn and Snow.E2
The project is now written in C#, which means you'll need the .NET Framework to use it. However, if you didn't installed it, the setup will install the old version of iCF (0.5.1) in C++, which doesn't need the .NET Framework, but doesn't support all these new features.
The skin format has changed a bit. Actually, I've mainly removed the little colored circles from the skins, and added the "generic" folder icon. However the old skins are still compatible, but without extra-features like the customisation of the "generic" folder icon. All this is fully explained in a smart "How to create a skin" document, located in the "skins" folder of iCF ; you'll find everything about skin conversion from old format to new and format specs.
You can find the history of changes since version 0.5.1 in the History section, and download this new release in the Dowload section.
Have fun !
Juni the 2nd, 2005
As you have maybe noticed, the website has been entirely redone. There're nothing much to say, but I hope this website will allow you to access more easily to iColorfolder resources.
