The title says everything. You can navigate through your folders and you can see the allocated spaces on the hard disks.
This little project contains some interesting solution/idea, worth to see:
- Uses ThreadPool queue to get the information from the hard disks
- Uses Avalon to visualize the data, concretely nested grids
Later I'm going to describe these in detail if somebody is interested in.
Requirements:
to run:
1. .Net 2.0 Beta 2 runtime
2. WinFX runtime Sept CTP
to compile:
1. VS2k5 Beta 2
2. WinFX SDK Sept CTP
EDIT1
It's precise now:
- uses the allocated size of a file instead of the filesize. These are not the same. The allocated size is the sum of the allocated clusters belongs to that file, simply: allocated size = allocated clusters * cluster size
- uses the CompressedFileSize of that file if that file is compressed.
- shows the Unknown space if there are unreachable files/folders (permission denied) or other unreachable data ($mft)
just a note, if it is not obvious:
Click on the colored bars to navigate through the folders.
EDIT2
New color scheme, looks like a rainbow now 
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Charles
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Thank you for being such a great contributor to the Sandbox, Kazi.
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Thanks Charles for the good words.
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This is the illustration of the "nested grids" what this utility uses for displaying the colored bars:
As you can see
1) Every single grid has two columns only
2) and contains rows as many as the childitems.
3) The column widths are constant.
4) The row heights are in proportion to the folder/file sizes.
5) The column 0 of a grid contains colored bars only.
6) The column 1 contains subgrids only.
The above picture displays the following hierarchy:
B0
B0.B1
B0.B1.B3
B0.B1.B4
B0.B1.B4.B6
B0.B1.B4.B7
B0.B1.B5
B0.B2
IF
B = Bar
G = Grid
C = Column
R = Row
C0 = Column 0
C1 = Column 1
R0 = Row 0
R1 = Row 1
etc...
Then the items have the following coordinates:
G0
B0 = G0.C0.R0
G1 = G0.C1.R0
B1 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C0.R0
B2 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C0.R1
G2 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0
B3 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0.G2.C0.R0
B4 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0.G2.C0.R1
B5 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0.G2.C0.R2
G3 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0.G2.C1.R1
B6 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0.G2.C1.R1.G3.C0.R0
B7 = G0.C1.R0.G1.C1.R0.G2.C1.R1.G3.C0.R1
This utility displays the folder hierarchy the above way. -
ok so in simple words for us non code nuts. this gadget type thing is going to create a visual representation of your hard drive and show like on a thermal scale blue being smallest files and red being the largest files. and can it run under XP. yea i still dont have dang vista
