Playback controls in the window preview on Windows

[freaktechnik]

All 'advanced' media players offer playback control in the preview window if you hover the icon in the superbar.

1. Users will expect this for ngale too
2. It's very handy for fast pausing/skipping

Difficulties: not sure if this is available via XULRunner.

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[freaktechnik]

Official windows API documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942846.aspx#id0420081
Mozilla API (from Gecko 19.2!!!): https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsITaskbarPreviewButton
So it is supported by the mozilla API.

[freaktechnik]

Testing pointed out, that the win build of ngale 1.11.0 does not provide the nsIWinTaskbar interface. Altought it's using XULRunner 1.9.2.

[AntoineTurmel]

It's because lots of things were added after XULRunner 1.9.2, maybe @LukasSkywalker know more about it ?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/njYzvobbcW0

[LukasSkywalker]

Yup, it was present in Firefox 4 (is this XULRunner 2?). And I even managed to get it working per-tab, but that wouldn't make sense for Nightingale, since the controls should be per-window.
If you want, I can check whether this should be possible and if yes, try to implement it.

[freaktechnik]

@GeekShadow according to the MDN article linked above it should be available.
@LukasSkywalker so you assign yourself?

[AntoineTurmel]

@freaktechnik
I guess MDN is wrong, @LukasSkywalker says it's usable from 2.0

[LukasSkywalker]

Can someone assign me? I can't... Thanks.

[AntoineTurmel]

Some refs :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff699128.aspx
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/08/04/windows-7-thumbnails.aspx
http://codereflect.com/2010/05/13/windows-7-adding-toolbar-buttons-to-taskbar-button-flyout/

I might work on it as default add-on.