Re: Wanted: a little class around here
- From: "Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:46:03 -0600
I do understand what you want, but it's not trivial. If it could be done it would require writing
an icon handler in C#. Don't know if explorer would like/allow an icon handler for folders since it
seems to already have some hard-coded icon handling of its own.
The one thing I could suggest is creating some dummy file types. These could add entries to the
'New' right-click menu. Instead of creating a new file, they could run a script that creates a new
folder with your custom icon already in place. If you're interested in that, I can post a detailed
example.
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Good Luck,
Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
"Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" <revbob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A little class for a specific type of folder, that is.
Let me explain. I generally organize my Start menu pretty anally,
which means an extra step after nearly every install, but at least I
can find stuff without seeing a jungle of (mostly) corporate names
and product names.
So anyhow, in my folder (program group) that holds 2D graphics
applications I've got a "Doc" subfolder. Ditto for my folder for 3D
graphics, and so on. And to make things a little nicer, I've put a
special icon on all program group folders. And then, one at a time,
I've gone through the folders and put a special icon on my "Doc"
folders so I can find them easily.
Clear so far?
Wouldn't it be nice, I said to myself, if I could create a special
class of folders that I could use for "Doc" folders? Then I could
customize the icon for the folder class once and all the folders of
that class would get their icon automatically.
There are things that are darn close to it: first there's the whole
idea of program groups, which are just a class of folders. Then
there's the way you can add things to namespaces. It looks like
somebody who actually knows something about Windows should be able to
create a new folder type without having to go through Active
Directory (which is the only reference I found on MS Techweb for
"folder class" and looks like something different anyhow).
Anybody tried this?
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Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
bob at crispen dot org
Ex Cathedra weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/
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Internet was *always* last year.
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