[APP] OblyTile - Tile Creator for all programs.

Argony-OT · Feb 6, 2013

Mohanshbhr said:
I have feature request.. can u please add a clean up option that can clean unused folder from C:\Program Files\OblyTile

A clean up function to detect & delete unused folder can be made on future releases, thanks you for your suggestion! :good:

cadarn07 said:
A couple of minor issues I've seen:

1. On my media PC I used this app to create shortcuts to Libraries on a networked drive (My Videos, Documents, etc on another PC). These shortcuts open the folders fine, but an error message also pops up every time behind the folder stating that the network location (or directory) couldn't be found. I just click OK and everything works fine otherwise.

This is fixed on version v0.9 (will be disponible during this week)

cadarn07 said:
2. Again on my media PC, I have ripped a DVD movie (.iso format) in a local folder (not a network folder) that I created a shortcut to with OblyTile. When I click the shortcut, I get a very similar error message to the first issue except the file doesn't launch. The dialog box just said there is no file there. At this point, I had ISO's set to "mount" in explorer (and then I would just right click the drive it mounted to and run the file with VLC). After this, I set the ISO to open with VLC by default (to play the movie) instead of mounting to Explorer (which is really what I wanted anyway). After doing this, the OblyTile shortcut worked fine with no error. But if you did want to mount ISO's by default (which I usually do, just not on this PC), it seems that the OblyTile shortcut wouldn't work unless there's another way to input the target for the shortcut to force it to mount in explorer.

This issue may get solved by changing the way to launch program.
OblyTIle uses generics Vbs files as launcher, my idea is to make a small launcher. (This will solve many issue).

Thanks you for the feedback! :good:

o0z0o · Feb 10, 2013

Hi Argony-OT

I have many questions to You. How works Your program? I mean how You customize vbs shortcuts programmatically? You using C# windows form application to create secondary tile, or something else? I have idea how can create wide tiles too (with two programs c# for windows and c# for store apps), but my English writing is not very pure. I will try to explain. There are must be two kinds of applications:

First app - Windows Form Application: which can create shortcut in format *.bat, or *.vbs, with some name must be created folder with wide, square, and little images (you can customize it), all shortcuts must be added to library folder (like "C:\Metro") or etc. (becouse i cant access from metro: Program Files, only some folders like library's).

Second app - Windows Store Application: which scans "Metro" library, and creates all tiles as secondaryTiles with all stored images and batch file path writed in TileActivationArguments (like "C:\Metro\Adobe-Photoshop_CS6-13-02-11-00-55\Adobe-Photoshop-CS6.bat"). When secondary tile would be activated, this app directly launched this bat file.

Thank You.

evoandroidevo · Feb 11, 2013

Omg thank you so much been looking for something like this thanks x10

Androidmarketuser · Feb 11, 2013

o0z0o said:
Hi Argony-OT I have many questions to You. How works Your program? I mean how You customize vbs shortcuts programmatically? You using C# windows form application to create secondary tile, or something else? I have idea how can create wide tiles too (with two programs c# for windows and c# for store apps), but my English writing is not very pure. I will try to explain. There are must be two kinds of applications:

Thank You.

I think this method is used by Pin Anything or other programs, but I don't know exactly.

Argony-OT · Feb 11, 2013

o0z0o said:
Hi Argony-OT I have many questions to You. How works Your program? I mean how You customize vbs shortcuts programmatically? You using C# windows form application to create secondary tile, or something else? I have idea how can create wide tiles too (with two programs c# for windows and c# for store apps), but my English writing is not very pure. I will try to explain.
Thank You.

Hello,

OblyTile is made in Visual Basic (.net), it does not require any Windows Store App to work. This is the goal, keep the program work without using the (limited) windows api.

Using a mixed app (Windows App + Desktop App) is a good way, but is still limited. What i'm trying to do with OblyTile is to give a fast way to create tiles without installing softwares on your pc.

Thanks you a lot for your post! :good:

Argony

o0z0o · Feb 11, 2013

Can you tell me how you pin your shortcuts to metro with custom images? And how you customize title color programmatically? It is registry trick? It's need compiler? And you use modified version of "resources.pri" what this file do it must be built with vb (.net)? If You answer me this questions i will experimenting and later share with you my ideas. I want to know root ideas how to beat the system and work with it. This is my hobby.

Argony-OT · Feb 11, 2013

o0z0o said:
Can you tell me how you pin your shortcuts to metro with custom images? And how you customize title color programmatically? It is registry trick? It's need compiler? And you use modified version of "resources.pri" what this file do it must be built with vb (.net)? If You answer me this questions i will experimenting and later share with you my ideas. I want to know root ideas how to beat the system and work with it. This is my hobby.

I will contact you in private message.

Argony

Argony-OT · Feb 13, 2013

OblyTile v0.9 Update

New update released. :good:

Some of the function requested are not included on this update, i hope to include them on the future updates.
More infos on main post.

Argony

CrimsonKnight13 · Feb 13, 2013

Argony-OT said:
New update released. :good:

Some of the function requested are not included on this update, i hope to include them on the future updates.
More infos on main post.

Argony

New version works great. Thanks again for a great release! :good:

TheRealGreenVirus · Feb 20, 2013

Hey guys, I was always getting my pictures from win8tiles.com but that site seems to be down, do you guys know another place?

Red_Kop · Feb 20, 2013

Thanks for this great app.

It works perfect apart from when I link a tile to a folder.

If I link a tile to a folder, I simply get taken into Desktop mode, but nothing else happens.

Any idea why?

Mjuksel · Feb 21, 2013

Red_Kop said:
Thanks for this great app.

It works perfect apart from when I link a tile to a folder.

If I link a tile to a folder, I simply get taken into Desktop mode, but nothing else happens.

Any idea why?

Depends on how you have made the tile.

The program path should lead to Windows folder to explorer.exe

The argument should be the folder, I guess.

Argony-OT · Feb 21, 2013

TheRealGreenVirus said:
Hey guys, I was always getting my pictures from win8tiles.com but that site seems to be down, do you guys know another place?

So far i know these place where to get picture to use as tile:
http://www.tile8.com/ (Work in progress, will support donations, rating, and maybe it will be integrated on OblyTile, so to search picture by using OblyTile itself)
http://dakirby309.deviantart.com/ (Thanks for the big packs of tiles and OblyTIle icon :victory

http://win8tiles.com/
http://walloftiles.net/
http://startscreentiles.com/
Deviantart.com - Tile category
http://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingtiles
http://www.reddit.com/r/tileicons (work in progress)

If someone knows more websites feel free to share with us! :good:

Red_Kop said:
If I link a tile to a folder, I simply get taken into Desktop mode, but nothing else happens.

That's strange, it works fine here, even with folder that contains unicode characters on the name folder (or folder path)

Will investigate on this.
Thanks you for your for your feedback!

Argony

Specter597 · Feb 21, 2013

Because...

fredphoesh said:
Why are you using oblytile to create tiles for metro apps?

Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

Yeah, I know I can pin a website to the start menu from IE Metro ... but the Tiles created by Windows look like poop.
I can't figure a way of modifying a shortcut created by IE so I was trying to use OblyTile as a crutch to make Windows look better.
(Because, OblyTile is awesome - and I want Windows to look better.)

FTMDan · Feb 22, 2013

Is there any way of stopping it so that when I search for a program that I have applied a custom tile to, it has a blue background then the tile on top of it, so it looks like the tiles have a blue border.

Argony-OT · Feb 23, 2013

FTMDan said:
Is there any way of stopping it so that when I search for a program that I have applied a custom tile to, it has a blue background then the tile on top of it, so it looks like the tiles have a blue border.

Hello,

I suggest to use pictures with transparent background as Small Tile image, so to have a better result.

Example of small tile with transparent background:

Example of small tile without transparent background:

Hope this helps

Argony

Aldokazer · Feb 23, 2013

Hey. I like this program a lot and with the help of this, metro start screen looks wayy better than before.

One thing, in the icon created by the installer of a program, there us an option to uninstall it directly by just right-clicking it. Can you add that to oblytile? That would give it more of a realistic feel and make it better.

Thanks anyways

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Scur827 · Feb 25, 2013

Searching through this thread, I see that large tiles aren't yet working. Yet that is where I have to place my pics. When I put anything in the Tile Small Image it is a waste of time. It only shows the large image, and it crops the edges. So I have to make my image 120x120 then add 60 pixels to either side so it shows the original 120x120 image I wanted. If I only make it 120x120, it will stretch the image to 240x120, then crop the edges to 120x120. Is that how it's working for everyone else?

Also, the tile settings are an awesome touch, well done.

Aldokazer · Feb 25, 2013

Scur827 said:
Searching through this thread, I see that large tiles aren't yet working. Yet that is where I have to place my pics. When I put anything in the Tile Small Image it is a waste of time. It only shows the large image, and it crops the edges. So I have to make my image 120x120 then add 60 pixels to either side so it shows the original 120x120 image I wanted. If I only make it 120x120, it will stretch the image to 240x120, then crop the edges to 120x120. Is that how it's working for everyone else?

Also, the tile settings are an awesome touch, well done.

Couldn't get you, but the small image is for the list which comes out when you search any program.

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Scur827 · Feb 26, 2013

I see.

What I meant was that if I put a 240x120 pic in the large entry, it will only show the center 120x120 section of it. And if I put a 120x120 pic in the large entry, it will first stretch the pic out to 240x120 first, then show the center 120x120 section of the stretched pic.

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