XYplorer Beta Club

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

phatmankerr wrote: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 ).

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

phatmankerr wrote: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.

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=

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?

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) :

admin wrote: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?

jacky wrote:

admin wrote: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?

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

admin wrote: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.

jacky wrote:

admin wrote: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.