Portable file icons

[Filehero]

@Filehero & others
Here's a mini pack - nothing fancy
....
Well, enough babble. Here's a very small pack with Green/Blue/Red folders and 2 "Incoming" (for the reasons above, I use the lightest one). I only kept 32bit color icons, with sizes 16/24/32/48/96 (though I only really tested 16x16).

Great - thanks a lot, Flux.


Cheers,
Filehero

[Borut]

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v12.30.0209 - 2013-04-24 11:11
    + Custom File Icons: Added a switch to assign a folder icon also to 
      all subfolders of a folder.
      The switch is "/r" (= recurse subfolders) and it has to be 
      appended to the pattern list separated by a single space. It 
      applies to all patterns in the pattern list.
      Examples:
        Pattern   auto-adjusted to    match           NO match
        ----------------------------------------------------------------
        code\     *\code\             C:\code\        C:\code\sub\
        code\ /r  *\code\*            C:\code\
                                      C:\code\sub\

Here are the results of some playing with v12.30.0209:

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PRO\     matches PRO and no subfolders               = as expected
PRO\ /r  matches PRO and subfolders                  = as expected
PRO*\    matches PRO and PRO.TEST and no subfolders  = as expected
PRO*\ /r matches PRO and PRO.TEST, but no subfolders = NOT as expected

Am I making or expecting something wrong with the last example? The combination of the following two explicit patterns is achieving what I want:

pro*\*\;pro*\

When trying the following, no subfolders of PRO.TEST were recognized, but those of PRO were:

pro*\;pro\ /r

[FluxTorpedoe]

Thanks all for the nice words!

Note: After a while I couldn't help but tweak it again... so I reuploaded the mini-pack in the original post.
Just changed the green folder icon (barely noticeable but feels less "acid" overall).

Practical Note: When updating an existing icon, one must restart XY to see the change.(unless there's a "purge cache" somewhere?)

[LittleBiG]

Here are the results of some playing with v12.30.0209:

PRO\ matches PRO and no subfolders = as expected
PRO\ /r matches PRO and subfolders = as expected
PRO*\ matches PRO and PRO.TEST and no subfolders = as expected
PRO*\ /r matches PRO and PRO.TEST, but no subfolders = NOT as expected

Am I making or expecting something wrong with the last example?

No, I don't think so. I was about to complain on this, because I wanted to use (recursively) a new icon for all folders starting with "Temp". So this makes two of us.

[admin]

Confirmed. Fix comes.

[FluxTorpedoe]

Now, that's more like what I had in mind!

FXT_FolderBG_Icons.png (2.8 KiB) Viewed 3004 times

Subtleness is brought back in the game, with each color tone down and readjusted.
All those "external" folders now feel like they're standard folders, while still differentiating themselves - BUT they cohabit peacefully and do not visually conflict with other PFI or desktop.ini iconized folders anymore.
Hope it can prove useful...
Flux

[Marco]

And what about having the front part colored and the rear part yellow?

[FluxTorpedoe]

And what about having the front part colored and the rear part yellow?

That would bring back the visual conflict with already iconized folders.

My purpose with this pack was not for a few folders to "stand" out -there are already lots of fancy icons for that (of fully colored ones)-, but for a whole drive to be identifiable (e.g. "blue" for external or network) while leaving iconized folders "breathe".
If all default folders are shown in full color, front color, or with any visible overlaid sign, the drive looks like kind of a mess, and it's hard to identify which specific folders (iconized via PFI or desktop.ini) should stand out.

That being said, maybe it could be nice to have a pack of "front color" for another purpose. I may give it a go...

[klownboy]

Hey Flux, I'm not sure what happened on the last upload (of 3 icons, blue, green, red), but they're all the same. Oh, maybe you were only changing the 16x16? Sorry. Nice job by the way.
Ken

[Marco]

My purpose with this pack was not for a few folders to "stand" out -there are already lots of fancy icons for that (of fully colored ones)-, but for a whole drive to be identifiable (e.g. "blue" for external or network) while leaving iconized folders "breathe".

Yeah, got it... and now that I read it twice, I see those icons as a great way to replace my boxed branches with something more flexible and subtler looking. Thanks for the icons!!

[LittleBiG]

I see those icons as a great way to replace my boxed branches with something more flexible and subtler looking.

Sure thing. But I wouldn't bury the boxed branch yet. It is very effective where strong visual help is needed.

[Borut]

Another possible problem with moving out of the "Iconic Box" and refreshing the tree:

Imagine having the structure

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C:\TEST
C:\XX\A
C:\XX\B

and a PFI definition that uses a certain Icon for all folders under the XX. If one now moves B into TEST, the icon of B seems to stay unchanged (and even an explicit tree refresh does not help in my case). Restarting XY helps.

BTW, I am using a combination of boxed branches and "boxed folder icons" (if I may name it so) and find the combination great.

[FeatureCreep]

Just like to say...
The PFIs are freakin' awesome!

Well done Don. I've wanted this feature for a long time. But it was worth the wait.

P.S. I'll post some of my own folder icons to the forum later.

[admin]

Another possible problem with moving out of the "Iconic Box" and refreshing the tree:

Imagine having the structure

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C:\TEST
C:\XX\A
C:\XX\B

and a PFI definition that uses a certain Icon for all folders under the XX. If one now moves B into TEST, the icon of B seems to stay unchanged (and even an explicit tree refresh does not help in my case). Restarting XY helps.

BTW, I am using a combination of boxed branches and "boxed folder icons" (if I may name it so) and find the combination great.

This might work better in the next version. Recursion added some nasty trickiness to the PFI thing, but at the moment I cannot make it fail.

[Filehero]

Hi,

I doubt I'm a hero-of-files, but I am sure I ain't a hero of icons.

Issue: I've just (unbelievable ... ) noticed that the folder icons look a bit different on Windows 8. I thougt, no probs over here, just exctract the 3-size-standard-folder-icons from shell32.dll, derive the various variations to finally upload them here.

But no avail, I don't even have a clue how to extract those three sizes into one icon, letting alone how to manipulate them afterwards. What's your workflow?

@Don: I'm repeating myself. I never ever thought I would spend a significant amount of time to mess around with icons (sic!) but the combination of benefit and ease of use is fatally compelling.


Cheers,
Filehero