Drive icons

[jb]

Total Commander 7.0bp2 has no special icon for VIRTUAL CD/DVD drives. Windows Explorer and SpeedCommander 11 use a different icon for them.

Total Commander 7.0bp2 has no icon overlay for SHARED drives as used by Windows Explorer and SpeedCommander 11.


By the way:
Total Commander 7.0bp2 has a very good icon for REMOVABLE drives (with green arrow similar to icon in system tray) ==> The user can recognize his USB memory stick(s) easier.

I would prefer the old icons for fixed drives and CD/DVD drives. They are more decent and crisp than new ones.

[Clo]

2jb

Hello !

• I'm using an old external DLL for the drives icons, it works still… Here i.e. :

[Configuration]
DriveLib=E:\Icones\Dll-étrangères\MG_DriveBmp.dll

- I have requested that more entries be recognized from such bitmaps DLL, nope…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[roentgen]

I like these new default icons.

What I'd like to see: support for icons defined in autorun.inf

edit: or at least some indication that there is a CD/DVD inserted in drive

[wanderer]

Total Commander 7.0bp2 has no icon overlay for SHARED drives as used by Windows Explorer and SpeedCommander 11.

In my test setup, it has! Are you using the default icons?

Also, two notes about the icon:
1. It is very pale. I agree with you, it should be a little more vivid.
2. The overlay icon appears in the list only, not in the tree (either normal or "separate"). It would be nice if it appeared in the tree too.

[StickyNomad]

2wanderer

It is very pale. I agree with you, it should be a little more vivid.

Which Icon(s) do you mean? the overlay icon or the drive icons in general?

[ghisler(Author)]

Total Commander 7.0bp2 has no special icon for VIRTUAL CD/DVD drives.

How can they be distinguished from real CD/DVD drives? And is there a way to distinguish CD from DVD drives, and readers from burners? I found no Windows functions to do this.

[wanderer]

2wanderer

It is very pale. I agree with you, it should be a little more vivid.

Which Icon(s) do you mean? the overlay icon or the drive icons in general?

The overlay. I'm talking about the "sharing hand" under the folder. It's light blue, almost looks green. Perhaps if it was a little less "pale" and more "blue"...

[jb]

In my test setup, it has! Are you using the default icons?

Yes.

Also, two notes about the icon:
1. It is very pale. I agree with you, it should be a little more vivid.
2. The overlay icon appears in the list only, not in the tree (either normal or "separate"). It would be nice if it appeared in the tree too.

I see the "shortcut/link" overlay instead of the "sharing hand" overlay in the tree and in the list, but there is no icon overlay at all in the drive button bar.

[wanderer]

I see the "shortcut/link" overlay instead of the "sharing hand" overlay in the tree and in the list, but there is no icon overlay at all in the drive button bar.

Huh?

I see no overlay icon in the tree and in the file panel i see a normal "sharing hand" icon. Any chance you have created a junction or something? Does it appear like this with the default wincmd.ini?

[jb]

Total Commander 7.0bp2 has no special icon for VIRTUAL CD/DVD drives.

How can they be distinguished from real CD/DVD drives?

I don't know, but as already mentioned: SpeedCommander 11 can tell the difference.

And is there a way to distinguish CD from DVD drives, and readers from burners? I found no Windows functions to do this.

There must be a way otherwise it would be impossible to write an application like Nero.

[jb]

I see no overlay icon in the tree and in the file panel i see a normal "sharing hand" icon. Any chance you have created a junction or something? Does it appear like this with the default wincmd.ini?

Above I talked about the missing or wrong "share" icon overlay for shared DRIVES.
Now I discovered that indeed there is a pale "share" icon for shared FOLDERS.
When I use the default wincmd.ini the shared drives wrongly appear without icon overlay.
When I use my own .ini file the shared drives wrongly appear with a "link" icon overlay.
In both cases the "shared" icon overlay should be used.

[wanderer]

2wanderer

It is very pale. I agree with you, it should be a little more vivid.

Which Icon(s) do you mean? the overlay icon or the drive icons in general?

2StickyNomad
Now that i see it in my WinXP laptop (TFT screen) with the default theme, the TC icon (the diskette) is also too pale. Both the desktop-shortcut icon and the TC window icon (small diskette) have that. Perhaps the "green" of the RGB values is too high. The b1 icons were too dark blue while the b2 seem too pale. Perhaps if you could try something in between those two...

[StickyNomad]

Perhaps if you could try something in between those two...

Hm, I will try it. I hope I'll find a suitable and satisfying solution. As I'm loaded with work currently, this may take a little while.

[wanderer]

Perhaps if you could try something in between those two...

Hm, I will try it. I hope I'll find a suitable and satisfying solution. As I'm loaded with work currently, this may take a little while.

Yup, i understand it's difficult to find a satisfying solution for both CRT and LCD displays.

[StickyNomad]

2wanderer
Please have alook here.