Parallels Team: Plz make a cube transition to Full Screen in shipping version!

Apr 19, 2006, 11:38 PM #1
oxonian Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 23	Parallels Team: Plz make a cube transition to Full Screen in shipping version! As others have posted, by installing 3rd party apps like, eg, Virtue Desktops, you can get a cool transition from OSX to XP to amaze your friends. Here's a shot made by a guy called mithras on another forum: (Of course this doesn't bare too close an inspection, at least on a MacBook, until XP can run at LCD native res). But, this is a standard type of transition that seems to be used by several apps (inc. of course OSX for fast user switching) so I imagine that it is something that Parallels could put in to the Workstation app directly. Which would be very cool, since then I wouldn't need to have fancy 3rd party apps running just to enable it. Of course there are many more important things to sort out (inc. an alternative mapping for right click on laptops, plz :-) but this would certainly be something cool. The effect on the people looking over my shoulder in the coffee room this morning left me in no doubt of that!

Apr 19, 2006, 11:38 PM

oxonian
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Parallels Team: Plz make a cube transition to Full Screen in shipping version!

As others have posted, by installing 3rd party apps like, eg, Virtue Desktops, you can get a cool transition from OSX to XP to amaze your friends.

Here's a shot made by a guy called mithras on another forum:

(Of course this doesn't bare too close an inspection, at least on a MacBook, until XP can run at LCD native res).

But, this is a standard type of transition that seems to be used by several apps (inc. of course OSX for fast user switching) so I *imagine* that it is something that Parallels could put in to the Workstation app directly. Which would be very cool, since then I wouldn't need to have fancy 3rd party apps running just to enable it.

Of course there are many more important things to sort out (inc. an alternative mapping for right click on laptops, plz :-) but this would certainly be something cool. The effect on the people looking over my shoulder in the coffee room this morning left me in no doubt of that!

Apr 20, 2006, 12:45 AM #2
Tony Arnold Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 54	I'm the author of Virtue - if you guys at Parallels are interested in how this is done, drop me a line - I'll provide you with commented code.

Apr 20, 2006, 12:48 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tony Arnold

I'm the author of Virtue - if you guys at Parallels are interested in how this is done, drop me a line - I'll provide you with commented code.

Hey, I'm interested though I don't work at parallels. Can I see?

Apr 20, 2006, 11:38 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stingerman

Hey, I'm interested though I don't work at parallels. Can I see?

Virtue Desktops is open source, of course, so you can look anytime you want. I think what Tony is offering to the Parallels team is no-strings-attached code, without the GPL requirements.

Apr 20, 2006, 06:10 PM #5
loughkb@yahoo.com Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 47	Oh wow, that's pretty! I've got a buddy stopping by later tonight to see what all the fuss is about with this virtual machine thing I keep going on about. Now I've got a really nice way to knock his socks off! Tony, Virtue is the first multi desktop app I've seen that actually works cleanly and in a way that I feel fits with OSX's intuitive flavor. Maybe apple will buy it from you for inclusion in leopard and you can retire. (grin) Everybody should try this with parallels. Run virtue, set it for the cube rotation, put your parallels VM on the other desktop in full screen mode and switch. You will smile, I garuntee it!

Apr 20, 2006, 06:10 PM

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Oh wow, that's pretty! I've got a buddy stopping by later tonight to see what all the fuss is about with this virtual machine thing I keep going on about. Now I've got a really nice way to knock his socks off!

Tony, Virtue is the first multi desktop app I've seen that actually works cleanly and in a way that I feel fits with OSX's intuitive flavor. Maybe apple will buy it from you for inclusion in leopard and you can retire. (grin)

Everybody should try this with parallels. Run virtue, set it for the cube rotation, put your parallels VM on the other desktop in full screen mode and switch. You will smile, I garuntee it!

Apr 23, 2006, 10:55 AM #6
organik Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 23	How do you switch screens with virtue when the VM has the keyboard? Do you have to release the mouse and keyboard first, or is there another way? And in fullscreen, the screen edge thing with virtue obviously doesn't work.

Apr 20, 2006, 01:37 AM #7
pfb Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 16	Hey Tony! Virtue and PWS... Two apps that make my new MacBook pro a joy to own!

Apr 20, 2006, 10:50 PM #8
casioguy Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 31	Tony, a quick note. Do you know that the website virtuedesktops.info is down? And I could not update my copy of Virtue directly either when I launch it as the connection failed. Fantastic piece of software, if I may say so.

Apr 22, 2006, 03:55 AM #9
oxonian Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 23	Can we get a word from a Parallels guy to see if this could be done?

Apr 22, 2006, 04:57 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oxonian

Can we get a word from a Parallels guy to see if this could be done?

Yes, it could be done. Actually, this effect is already implemented (thanks to Tony Arnold for the implementation hints). You will get this in the next public version.

Apr 22, 2006, 08:00 AM #11
vamp07 Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 86	It's posts like these that make me love parallels. So many developers would not answered a question like that.

Apr 20, 2006, 03:40 AM #12
david Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 26	I am using virtue and an app called backdrop as a temporary solution, until full screen resolution is supported. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24004

Apr 20, 2006, 10:03 AM #13
Tommo_UK Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 15	Oxonian, Thanks so much for the tip! And for pointing me towards Virtue. I don't know how I managed without that little app, now that I have it installed! Tony Arnold, thanks for Virtue too :D

Apr 22, 2006, 09:44 PM #14
maxcorreo Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 3	Please look at a post I made about a cool idea I found to so soemthing similar: http://forum.parallels.com/showthrea...=4332#post4332

Jun 5, 2006, 05:29 PM

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Settings to accomplish cube-effect

Quote:

Originally Posted by oxonian

(Of course this doesn't bare too close an inspection, at least on a MacBook, until XP can run at LCD native res).

I've tried to accomplish the cube-transition between fullscreen XP on a virtual desktop with Virtue Desktops. But when I'm in fullscreen XP and hotkey to another desktop, the fullscreen goes away, and XP is windowed again, and the transition fails.

So my question is, for you who have the setup on the screenshot, what settings should be used to accomplish it? I don't really know it it's Virtue, Parallels or both apps settings that are faulty.

Thanks.

Jun 5, 2006, 08:58 PM #16
VTMac Senior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 340	It sounds like you are using RC1. This was a bug in RC1 that was fixed in RC2. Try RC2 an everything should work fine.

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