Possible icons bug + Get old archive icon back.

[avada]

Hi!

I think the new archive icon is barely distinguishable from the folders. I'd like to request a setting to get back to old one, or at least one that I can tell apart from the folder icons. (I like all the other icons.)

Also as an experiment I tried disabling the "Show default folder/file icons from Explorer" option, but even that didn't bring back the old archive icon. So I guess this is a bug.
It changed the folders back though, which I don't like.

[MVV]

I would prefer to get rid of limitations that don't allow setting icons for any file/folder using internal associations, it would allow setting custom archive icons too.

BTW when I disable 'show default folder/file icons from explorer' option, archives are shown with old good icon.

[avada]

BTW when I disable 'show default folder/file icons from explorer' option, archives are shown with old good icon.

Hmmm. Weird. Are you also using tc64? And the latest b11?

[MVV]

I use 32-bit TC 9.0b11. But with 64-bit one I also see old archive icons.

[petermad]

when I disable 'show default folder/file icons from explorer' option, archives are shown with old good icon.

Same here TC9B11 32- and 64bit2

avada
After you have disabled icons from Explorer, then check to see if you have an IconLib= line in your wincmd.ini, and if you have, check that it points to a library that has the old TC archive icon.

[MVV]

I can confirm that archives still have system icons in TC 9.0b11 when I disable Explorer icons in case when IconLib is not set. When IconLib is set, archives have proper icon from lib.

[petermad]

can confirm that archives still have system icons in TC 9.0b11 when I disable Explorer icons in case when IconLib is not set

So can I - and I would expect the same icons to be used when no iconlib is set as I do with iconlib=%COMMANDER_EXE% - so I consider this to be a bug.

[avada]

avada
After you have disabled icons from Explorer, then check to see if you have an IconLib= line in your wincmd.ini, and if you have, check that it points to a library that has the old TC archive icon.

I don't. Why would I? I never used custom icons.
(Also is that feature only available through the ini? If so, it makes it twice as bad...)

[petermad]

Also is that feature only available through the ini

Until TC9b10 it was only possible to use the old TC 8x icon by adding iconlib="COMMANDE_EXE" to the wincmd.ini file.

The possibility to disable the new option in TC9b11 "Show default folder/file icons from Explorer" should do the same, but apparantly the old archive icon is not used in that case, unless iconlib="COMMANDE_EXE" is used - probably a bug as I wrote in a later reply.

[avada]

Also is that feature only available through the ini

Until TC9b10 it was only possible to use the old TC 8x icon by adding iconlib="COMMANDE_EXE" to the wincmd.ini file.

The possibility to disable the new option in TC9b11 "Show default folder/file icons from Explorer" should do the same, but apparantly the old archive icon is not used in that case, unless iconlib="COMMANDE_EXE" is used - probably a bug as I wrote in a later reply.

Then I guess it'll be fixed.
What can I do if I only want to change the archive icon back, or at least to something different?

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed the checkbox is just for default file and folder icons. But I agree that it should also be applied to default archive icons, although they are not mentioned.

[MVV]

Beta 12 shows correct archive icons with OldListIcons=1, thanks!

[petermad]

Confirmed fixed in TC9b12 - good old "Rubicks cube" archive icon is back

[avada]

So now that the bug part is fixed...
How do these iconlibs work? Can they only override one icon (the archive), or must they have every icon?

[MVV]

Icon library must have all icons. So you can take a library with default icons (e.g. this one - it only has modified hidden overlays) and replace any icon using e.g. Resource Hacker (which also may be used for extracting icons from any executables).