Icon overlays

[RalphM]

The addition happened!!!

Well, I followed these threads all along, but couldn't make any sense out of it so far.

A couple of questions arose:
1.) How does it work, and what is it used for?
2.) Is there any use for it for NON-programmers? (probably answered with 1. already)

[diarrhio]

[1.) How does it work, and what is it used for?

Subversion (SVN) is a source control database. It allows for multiple developers to work on the same source files at once, without risk of stepping over eachothers work. Each file/folder that is being source controlled has a status; e.g. Current, Modified, Conflicted, Missing, etc. Tortoise SVN is a Windows Shell Extension that allows you to see the status of each file, as well as perform all kinds of source control operations on them. Tortoise shows the status of the files by overlaying a tiny icon over each file/folder icon, similar to the white "Arrow" icon overlay you see for Shortcuts.

XY was showing the proper icon for a given file/folder, but not the overlay icon. Now it shows both

2.) Is there any use for it for NON-programmers? (probably answered with 1. already)

If you have anything that you need managed amongst multiple people (programmers or not), or files that need to have their changes tracked (i.e. revisioned), then you might be interested in SVN, and possibly Tortoise SVN, for the convenience of working with SVN through regular Explorer (and now XY)

[JustinF]

Does this only work for Subversion? MirrorFolder appears to use icon overlays...at least that's what it looks like in that first screenshot:
http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/scrnshot.htm

[diarrhio]

It should work for Tortoise CVS as well, since they mostly based on the same source.

As for MirrorFolder, it looks like it *might* be using the desktop.ini file to actually change the icon for the folder, which is different (I think) from setting an icon overlay.

If they are indeed using overlays, then it should work just fine.

[admin]

If they are indeed using overlays, then it should work just fine.

That's true. In the code I don't make any reference to Tortoise at all. It works just as I was gathering before: I'm using the OSs capability to define item-specific icon overlays.

[RalphM]

...Tortoise shows the status of the files by overlaying a tiny icon over each file/folder icon, similar to the white "Arrow" icon overlay you see for Shortcuts.

Thanks for updating me on this one.
I've got no need for it right now, but looks like a nice concept.