Icon Overlays and TortoiseSVN 1.5

[admin]

This is also because I don't think overlay icons in general are used by that many people.

Creating a column that just shows the one overlay icon that is currently displayed doesn't seem like it would be too difficult and it would be useful enough to justify the effort.

Maybe there isn't that many using SVN but i suspect there is a much higher nbr of XY users who have overlay icons due to cloud/backup software, like Mozy or Carbonite, etc and having that in a unique col could apply to them as well...so I'd maybe not have col heading be SVN but something more generic.

Yes, "Overlay" for example.

[j_c_hallgren]

Yes, "Overlay" for example.

Exactly! But since it's a very narrow field, maybe "Ovl" so no excess space -- unless you plan to have multiple icons side-by-side?

[admin]

Yes, "Overlay" for example.

Exactly! But since it's a very narrow field, maybe "Ovl" so no excess space -- unless you plan to have multiple icons side-by-side?

Yep, although "Ovl" looks a bit stupid. But, let's not continue discussing this before I decide to make the column...

[TheQwerty]

I don't know a way to get more than one overlay information. Windows clearly states one overlay (or none). The negotiation is done before the results are fed to the API.

Yeah, I don't know how it could be achieved either. It's a shame because Microsoft keeps complaining in their blog posts about how overlays kind of suck since they can only relay 1 detail about a file, but they don't provide a way to get around this limitation either. This is why they continue to mention adding or using columns instead.

Conc. the column: I surely plan to add shell columns but this is a big feature (in the sense of: a lot of tricky work, and probably a long debug phase).
But: if sorting is not that important I could quite quickly add an option to draw the normal icon column (after widening it by 16 pixels) so that the overlay is drawn on the left and the icon on the right. Would that help? (Advantage: the same method could also be applied to non-Details views)

Interesting thought, not sure if left or right of file icon makes more sense but it could be a good approach.

Though it might be a bit ugly if you don't ensure that the file icons and names are still aligned in a grouping of files with and without overlays.

[j_c_hallgren]

But: if sorting is not that important I could quite quickly add an option to draw the normal icon column (after widening it by 16 pixels) so that the overlay is drawn on the left and the icon on the right. Would that help? (Advantage: the same method could also be applied to non-Details views)

Interesting thought, not sure if left or right of file icon makes more sense but it could be a good approach.

Though it might be a bit ugly if you don't ensure that the file icons and names are still aligned in a grouping of files with and without overlays.

Agree that as long as overlays and icons are lined up in sub-columns, this approach should work as a interim solution and would help make the actual icons clearer without them being overlaid...and the fact that it works in non-Details is definitely good.

[admin]

I spoke too soon: I don't find a way to retrieve the position of the overlays in the system image list.

After you browsed a location with overlays, you will see the overlays at random positions in this list (only Windows knows where which icon is positioned and why) running this script:

Code: Select all

::sysicons;

I'm not aware of any API that tells me the position of the 15 possible overlays.

[TheQwerty]

I'm not aware of any API that tells me the position of the 15 possible overlays.

Anything in SHGetIconOverlayIndex or IShellIconOverlay help?

[admin]

I'm not aware of any API that tells me the position of the 15 possible overlays.

Anything in SHGetIconOverlayIndex or IShellIconOverlay help?

Nope.

[TheQwerty]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx IShellIconOverlayManager?

EDIT: How obtuse of me... completely ignoring that these are all interfaces you'd need to implement, huh?

[janaka]

Got to Tools->configuration->Advance
check "Show Icon Overlays"