Thumbnails in Zip Files

[bloodlust8]

Can tc V7 Do thumbnails in Compressed Files?

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved to TC7 beta discussion forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]

[StickyNomad]

2bloodlust8

Unfortunately not. But at least Quickview works in archives.

[ghisler(Author)]

This isn't currently supported. Why? Because of solid archives (RAR, SQX etc): The entire archive would have to be extracted to get just a single thumbnail from the last file. So if you enter a 500 MB backup which is sorted in a way that the last file in the archive appears at the top, you would have to wait until the entire 500MB have been extracted until you see the thumbnail...

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)
Although it's of course true that solid archives are really a problem here this shouldn't be a reason not to support archives at all. The latest XNView also supports thumbs in archives (even SQX ).

What about a new function

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int PackerGetArchiveType (char* archiveName)

which informs TC about the archive type (solid or not solid).

Packers who don't support this function automatically don't support thumbnails in archives.

This would allow options like
[ ] Enable thumbs in archives
[ ] Enable thumbs even in solid archives

The 2nd option could support "by filetype options". These means I could allow thumbnail extraction only for SQX archives but not for RAR archives (for example) and only for files smaller 20 MB.
A simpler option which just limits the archive size would also be okay.

It's really too late for TC 7 but something that should be considered sooner or later.

[djorge]

This would allow options like
[ ] Enable thumbs in archives
[ ] Enable thumbs even in solid archives

The 2nd option could support "by filetype options". These means I could allow thumbnail extraction only for SQX archives but not for RAR archives (for example) and only for files smaller 20 MB.
A simpler option which just limits the archive size would also be okay.

It's really too late for TC 7 but something that should be considered sooner or later.

Support++

[Clo]

2Lefteous

Hello Christian !

The latest XNView also supports thumbs in archives (even SQX ).

• Let guess who did request this ?

• I support such a function in the way you present it, that sounds very good !

 VG
Claude
Clo