Option to use "Internal" Drive Icons?

harrismail · Post by *harrismail » 2016-07-09, 10:52 UTC

Would it be at all possible to have an option to use the "internal" drive icons rather than the system drive and folder icons as the internal ones display much better and clearer for me (and maybe others)
Thanks Steve

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2016-07-09, 11:05 UTC

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[Configuration]
OldDriveIcons=2

HTH

Regards
Dalai

harrismail · Post by *harrismail » 2016-07-09, 11:19 UTC

Yep - that'll do nicely - thanks!

Vulpix · Post by *Vulpix » 2016-07-09, 21:32 UTC

Dalai wrote:
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[Configuration]
OldDriveIcons=2
HTH

Regards
Dalai

Strangely this does nothing for me when I edit it and restart totalcmd

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2016-07-09, 21:46 UTC

Vulpix wrote:Strangely this does nothing for me when I edit it and restart totalcmd

Make sure to edit the correct settings file used by TC. You should edit wincmd.ini by menu Configuration > Change Settings Files directly. Furthermore there must not be more than one key with the name OldDriveIcons, and of course, only one section named [Configuration]. And, you should use at least TC9 beta2 since that's the first to understand a value of 2.

Regards
Dalai

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-07-09, 21:57 UTC

If one uses a beta version, he should use the latest beta, which is 4th for today.

Vulpix · Post by *Vulpix » 2016-07-10, 18:27 UTC

Dalai wrote:
Vulpix wrote:Strangely this does nothing for me when I edit it and restart totalcmd
Make sure to edit the correct settings file used by TC. You should edit wincmd.ini by menu Configuration > Change Settings Files directly. Furthermore there must not be more than one key with the name OldDriveIcons, and of course, only one section named [Configuration]. And, you should use at least TC9 beta2 since that's the first to understand a value of 2.

Regards
Dalai

I have the latest beta, of course.

There are two sections named "Configuration" in my file. I didn't check for that before, hmm.

One of them is at the very top of the config file, the other is very close to the end of it.

I tried deleting either but both got re-generated (as I was greeted with the "first launch of TC" window.)

However, I found that putting the parameter in the SECOND configuration section, it worked! So that's what I dod.

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2016-07-10, 18:34 UTC

2Vulpix
Keeping the two sections is prone to even more errors. You should close TC and edit wincmd.ini afterwards, move all settings from the second section to the first one and then delete the second section header.

Regards
Dalai

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-07-10, 18:54 UTC

Perhaps file accidentally has been saved with UTF-8 BOM and first section isn't recognized now because of it (only ANSI and UTF-16 are supported by Windows INI files).
Please check if file is in UTF-8. File must be saved in pure ANSI encoding. There is no need in UTF-16 because TC applies its own encoding for all Unicode strings anyway.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-07-11, 08:00 UTC

Windows does not support UTF-8 in ini files. Either save as UTF-16 in Notepad, or as plain text.