Feature request: different icon-size per bar if using 2 bars

[Clo]

>>> Mr. Ch. Ghisler

Hello!
When using two button-bars (one calling the other, and the opposite...), we have a single icon-size for both (or more) bars...
That doesn't allow to have i.e. a 32*32 icons bar for an user, and a second as 48*48 for another user having view problems.
Moreover, TC doesn't accept 48*48 originals, though in one hand, this size is set, in the other hand, Windows supports and manages 48*48 icons...
TC only blows-up 32*32 icons up to 48*48
Please, see too:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2680.
Isn't a double post, this message (French) just describes the problem which caused this request...
A second test here: http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2702
Very best regards, yours,
Claude
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[Lefteous]

2Clo

That doesn't allow to have i.e. a 32*32 icons bar for an user, and a second as 48*48 for another user having view problems.

You need two *.bar-files and corresponding Wincmd.ini entries.

Moreover, TC doesn't accept 48*48 originals, though in one hand, this size is set, in the other hand, Windows supports and manages 48*48 icons...
TC only blows-up 32*32 icons up to 48*48

That's wrong for Total Commander 6+.
From History.txt: Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution displays, better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32

[Clo]

2Clo

You need two *.bar-files and corresponding Wincmd.ini entries.

Moreover, TC doesn't accept 48*48 originals, though in one hand, this size is set, in the other hand, Windows supports and manages 48*48 icons...
TC only blows-up 32*32 icons up to 48*48

That's wrong for Total Commander 6+.
From History.txt: Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution displays, better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32

Hi! It's in the "history" file but that does not work under Win 98 SE! The 48*48 icons that I attempted to set are 8 & 24 BPP. Please, look at:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2680
Sorry, it's in French... I prepar a translation if you wish?
~15 mn ....
Claude
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[Lefteous]

2Clo

What about posting the buttonbar-file including the corresponding iconlibrary?

[Clo]

2Clo

What about posting the buttonbar-file including the corresponding iconlibrary?

The French thread translation:
"Normally, the toolbar-icons can be blown-up up to 48*48 pixels at least. But even if you chose this size in the "Buttons" dialog - having already 32*32 installed icons -, it's impossible to make that TC displays an original 48*48! Instead the chosen icon, TC gets and displays.... the first icon contained into the EXE of the program associated with the *.ico file-type !
I tried to create a second bar, designed to use 48*48 icons. I set the size at 48*48. Hence, the 1st.bar had blown-up icons, there was no matter just for a test. But when I chose an original 48*48, it was ignored, and TC came back to the EXE of the program associated with the *.ico file-type, and displayed again the first one (enlarged, of course, because in that case the embedded icons are 32*32 only...)
I didn't test multi-frame icons; I don't think that TC supports them...?
....Blah blah..."
Finally, I resigned this large icons use in my usual PC... I configured the second bar as "classic", and that works with 32*32 icons.
The icons of this test are not in a DLL / ICL. They are multiple *.ico files.
That'ld need a test in a TC which has none buttonbar already...
What a mess! How to explain that better...
friendly,
Clo

[Lefteous]

2Clo

What a mess! How to explain that better...

What about posting the buttonbar-file including the corresponding icon files?

[Clo]

2Clo

What a mess! How to explain that better...

What about posting the buttonbar-file including the corresponding icon files?

That shouln't bring any useful info, since like I told you above, I had to configure the second bar as classic with 32*32...
The other PCs of my home-LAN have classic toolbars too, they arn't available for a test actually. Such a test needs a TC without any bar, and to begin a button-config with the same icons - with the size set in first as 48*48- I've a small collection included in a pack, downloadable from the TC Page at my Web Site (button just below here!)
That looks like another issue fixed a long time ago: from the English Tutorial >>> FAQ
Q. In the file lists, Total Commander doesn't display the right icons for files associated with programs! It displays the *.ICO file type icon for all!
A. That occurs in 32-bit versions if you increased or decreased the title-bar height in Windows. If possible, restore the size to 18, which is the default. If you want for keep the customized title-bar height, you need to change each icon (only xxx.ICO files) for each file type by a different one, contained in a DLL or ICL icon-library; you can choose icons in any *.EXE program file too. Then, Total Commander will display the right icons everywhere!
Writers's notice: the resolution of this strange problem (that I discovered) needed a lot of... emails! Fortunately, the Author found the cause... By chance, I found the icon-libraries solution!
Edit You said:
"You need two *.bar-files and corresponding Wincmd.ini entries."

Currently, there is a single entry in the wincmd.ini file for all bars, like:
[Buttonbar]
Buttonheight=37
FlatIcons=1
SmallIcons=0
¤ That ignores different bars. I don't think that could be changed...
It might be something like:

[Buttonbar1]
BarFile1=path\totalcmd\default1.bar
Binary1=path\totalcmd\default1.br1
Buttonheight1=37
FlatIcons1=1
SmallIcons1=0

[Buttonbar2]
BarFile2=path\totalcmd\MyBar2.bar
Binary2=path\totalcmd\MyBar2.br2
Buttonheight2=xx
FlatIcons2=y
SmallIcons2=z

Cheers, to be continued...
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[Bluz]

TC not really change icon size to 48x48 then displaying panels, just blow up 32x32 to 48x48, if choose "Options > Font > Symbol size = 48x48"

Example for 2 panels below.

[Clo]

2Bluz

Hello ! Welcome aboard !

• The topic here was the icons of the button-bar¦s, not those in the file-lists…

• That you quote as Option for the file-lists icons is valid up to the 6.56 only, now there is an Icons option page in TC 7.0x

• There are many improvements about both these two types of icons in the 7.0

- However, let's notice that the original issue is not solved yet,
since it's still impossible to display different icon-sizes in several bars as a built-in feature…

 Kind regards,
Claude
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[petermad]

This has also been discussed in the beta forum. My suggestion then was to save and read the metric parameters:

Buttonheight=
FlatIcons=
SmallIcons=
XPstyle=
SmallIconSize=1

in the .bar file itself, in stead of in the wincmd.ini file. Then each butonbar can have its own settings.

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2petermad

Hello Peter !

• It's a good approch too…

Unfortunately, “There's none so deaf as those who will not hear…”

• My original suggestion¦report has been ignored here for ages…

 FR
Claude
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[sqa_wizard]

2petermad: sounds feasible !
The bar itself must be drawn according to its private settings of course!

The old entries may remain in the wincmd.ini to define the defaults for a new bar ...

If there are private bar settings, those should be used.
If there are none, the default should be use.
This way old bars remain compatible