Icon Overlays

[phatmankerr]

As XYplorer supports icon overlays for TortoiseSVN - I downloaded it to check it out and it is quite useful.

My query is whether XY could support icon overlays internally ?

Not sure if anybody else would find this useful, but I would find it INCREDIBLY useful to be able to mark particular files with an icon overlay (e.g. a tick).

The reason I use XY is because I deal with hundreds of files a day, and one of jobs I have is importing files into other systems - it would be SO useful to be able to mark the files in some way to say they had been actioned.

Even a basic set of overlays such as a tick, cross, questionmark and important (yellow triangle with a !), and numbers from 1-9 would be useful.

Not sure of overheads etc. but I notice XY Supports overlays in the tree for favourites etc.

Cheers

Phat

[admin]

My query is whether XY could support icon overlays internally ?

The problem would not be displaying the overlays. But data management. There's nowhere in the file system or inside the files where I could place this information. So I would have to build a kind of data base. Now think big: suppose you have thousands of files with your special flags attached. For each file in the file list I would have to check if it is in the data base and what's its flags. This would slow down browsing a lot! ("make it optional!" .... yeahhhhh ).

[phatmankerr]

No worries, not going to ask for it as an optional extra, it's your baby and if you tell me it's not feasible (or would have an unnacceptable performance hit) I will take your word for it (as the Developer you obviously have some say in how XY Progresses

[admin]

No worries, not going to ask for it as an optional extra, it's your baby and if you tell me it's not feasible (or would have an unnacceptable performance hit) I will take your word for it (as the Developer you obviously have some say in how XY Progresses

Sure enough, I rule the waves. But I like to explain my reasoning once in a while because many eyes see (and have seen) more than two and somebody could prove my reasoning wrong. Closed-source, open-mind, you know.

[surrender]

I dont need overlays. But a way to change the state (visual) of the folder or file. Like one of my old wish:

http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... highlight=

[j_c_hallgren]

Not sure if this might help in this case, but found this via a recent Kim Komando newsletter (she also has a national radio call-in show in US):

http://www.foldermarker.com/index.php

Freeware to mark folders with various icons and colors...have NOT tried it...not sure how it would interact but maybe some ideas could be gleaned from this for XY?

[admin]

In XP (other Win maybe as well?) you can give special icons to folders by placing an *.ico file (might work with other formats as well?) and a file called Desktop.ini in that folder. Content of Desktop.ini (Koeln.ico is the name of the icon file) :

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[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=Koeln.ico
IconIndex=0

[jacky]

In XP (other Win maybe as well?) you can give special icons to folders by placing an *.ico file (might work with other formats as well?) and a file called Desktop.ini in that folder. Content of Desktop.ini (Koeln.ico is the name of the icon file) :

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[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=Koeln.ico
IconIndex=0

Note that for this to work it seems you need to set either the attribute System or Read-Only to that folder, or else Desktop.ini will do nothing.
And I think you have to Rebuild the Tree in XY to have the icon updated on Tree. If that folder is on your Catalog, I'm not sure if there's a way to "refresh" it?

[admin]

In XP (other Win maybe as well?) you can give special icons to folders by placing an *.ico file (might work with other formats as well?) and a file called Desktop.ini in that folder. Content of Desktop.ini (Koeln.ico is the name of the icon file) :

Code: Select all

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=Koeln.ico
IconIndex=0

Note that for this to work it seems you need to set either the attribute System or Read-Only to that folder, or else Desktop.ini will do nothing.
And I think you have to Rebuild the Tree in XY to have the icon updated on Tree. If that folder is on your Catalog, I'm not sure if there's a way to "refresh" it?

Correct. In the Catalog context menu "Refresh all icons" will do it.

[jacky]

In the Catalog context menu "Refresh all icons" will do it.

Ah right, good. Dunno if it classified as "Cache" but I'd suggest to add a "Refresh Catalog Icons" item in the View/Caches menu, as pretty much all other refresh features of this kind are here aswell.

[admin]

In the Catalog context menu "Refresh all icons" will do it.

Ah right, good. Dunno if it classified as "Cache" but I'd suggest to add a "Refresh Catalog Icons" item in the View/Caches menu, as pretty much all other refresh features of this kind are here aswell.

Yes, sir.