default windows icons in TC?

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

I'm using my own icon caching mechanism because the one in Windows is very slow.

Hi,
¤ That's true: at Windows start-up time, the Desktop / Tool-bars icons take a while to be established! We get white-standard icons in first...

¤ However, please could you plan an improvement in order that TC could use the XP Explorer libraries?
Thanks,
Claude
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[zeflash]

I'm using my own icon caching mechanism because the one in Windows is very slow.

I understand. Could we get an option to get the icons from windows at some point and keep them cached afterwards then? Like a "rebuild icon cache" option.

This way TC would use windows' icons, I'll be happy, and it would still be as fast as before.

And Please Claude, stop messing up this thread with your 24x24 icons posts !!!

[Leif]

But what about the 24x24 icons??? LOL

[Lefteous]

I'm using my own icon caching mechanism because the one in Windows is very slow.

It's not a big suprise to me that [face=tahoma]Total Commander[/face] uses it's own icon cache. The system icon cache is slow and buggy. Nothing has to be changed here.
Sorry, but I don't think your answer is an answer to the feature requested by the thread starter. He wanted to know if it's possible to display the same icons that are shown in Windows Explorer. To do this it's not necessary to read the system item cache. The feature required is a flexible and easy to understand option for the user.

The user can choose one of the following 2 options:

1. Use explorer icons (read locations from well known reg keys first -> if not found read from shell32).
2. Use iconlib (current behavior: if not set, use icons from Totalcmd.exe)

(of course folder attributes have still the highest priority, but this is not as important as in the current situation, see below)

Another benefit: Set folder attributes only if a custom icon is required
This would be a lot clearer than the current solution where I have to set read only or system bit to get the "SHGetFileInfo" icon. I want to set this only if I really need a custom folder icon.

[Clo]

2Leif
Hello Leif!
• Please, don't "fling oil on the fire"
Kind regards, bien cordialement,
Claude
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[Clo]

2Lefteous
Hallo Lefteous! Guten Morgen
Right, whack!

V G
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[ghisler(Author)]

There is a problem with 24x24 icons: If I request the icon in 24x24 size with LoadImage, 32x32 icons are resized to that size by windows, but look uglier than my own resize mechanism...

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)

Why use LoadImage when your own resize mechanism is better?

[zeflash]

Arrrg even the author is now answering off topic

Well, I guess I'll have to make a new thread about this issue everyone seems to have forgotten

[mikecosterus]

2zeflash:

Super...Forum has no use when scrolling hours & Hours to read not what you need. Did you solve the Issue yet?

I want to see small Coreldraw Previews (like bitmap symbols) on the left side of my file list. Just like Xp does it in symbolview in the IE. But all I get in TC is the Coreldraw standard logo as a symbol (not a preview). and that is EXACTLY the issue here, right?

hope to hear from you! (if solution is found)

Au revoir,

Mike

[Sheepdog]

If you are using TC Version 6.50 or later you should try Ctrl+Shift+F1 (or in the menu Viem ThumbNailView).

If not you should upgrade.

sheepdog

[mikecosterus]

thnx!
Yeb, I know and use this feature extensively,
but it only works on images like JPG, GIF, BMP, etc...

If I use symbol view (or actually ANY view!) in the Explorer, I get a small preview in the list, left from the filename.

HERE you can see the difference (first image: explorer, 2nd: TC)

http://www.costerus.at/images/tc.html

This would be VERY useful in TC! (and if the explorer does it, TC can too, I would say!)

cheers,

Mike

[Hacker]

mikecosterus,
Try Xentient Thumbnails.

HTH
Roman

[ghisler(Author)]

Why use LoadImage when your own resize mechanism is better?

Because I prefer to NOT RESIZE AT ALL if the icon exists in the correct size!

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)

Because I prefer to NOT RESIZE AT ALL if the icon exists in the correct size!

Thanks for the _fast_ reply