Xara X thumbnails in Windows Explorer

[dalel]

Excuse my ignorance.

Where should this dll be installed? Any other information we need to make it work? (I am bravely trying to use it in Win98.)

http://talkgraphics.infopop.net/1/Op...&ul=1101906325
Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[Christine Farrelly]

from me Jonathan, I will finally be able to get all my images organised easily.

One thing I would ask of you though - is it possible to include the Xara BAK files as well?

Christine

[This message was edited by Christine Farrelly on February 02, 2003 at 23:19.]

[diniel]

Excellent, works fine on my Windowss 2000 SP3 machine too... thanks!

[a4hire]

Thank you Jonathon for this. It works for me in windows 2000. Dale , I used the executable file and it installed by default in the program files folder.

[michaelward]

Brilliant, great work!!

I was considering doing it myself, but seeing as I've never produced a DLL in my life, it would have been an up-hill task.

This is something that is going to help a lot of Xarans!



Michael Ward
http://www.exosoftwebdesign.co.uk (soon)
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[Lone Wolf]

Hey, that is very, very impressive stuff!

Looking at the source makes me a bit downcast, though (but not because of your code); I've realized that in order to properly handle drag and drop, and be able to use XP icons, I need to add OLE to my project too, and that's something I haven't used before, and it doesn't look pretty.

Oh, well, those are my troubles, and this certainly shows that you can do cool stuff with it.

Great work!

[Jonathan Payne]

Everyone: Thanks for all the kind complements.

Dale: Sorry, my post was a bit misleading. The first link is to the installer for the DLL rather than the DLL itself. Everything should work if you just download the installer and run it. I think your problem might be due to Windows 98.

Christine: I think it would be possible to enable the preview for .bak files as well. I am not that keen on enabling at the moment as other applications use .bak files as well and I don't want to cause any problems for them. If you like, I could post some registry changes that would enable .bak preview.

Michael & Lone Wolf: The code doesn't do anything that complicated but it does use a lot of different things at the same time (ATL, COM, shell stuff, Flare file format, etc). If you are interested, I found out most of the stuff I needed for this project on CodeProject and from the Xara file format specification. The OLE code is only there to avoid having to load the GIF file manually.

To everyone: Has anyone got this working on Windows 95, 98 or ME or is there anyone who would like it to work on one of these platforms that can't get it to run (if there is, I will try and get an install of Windows 98 to test it on).

[Clements]

Jonathan.

This is excellent work! Something many of us have been wanting for a very long time. No problems on my Win2k system.

I will let other Xara users in my company be aware of its existance.

[dalel]

No go on Win98.

It would be great to be able to use this dll on Win98.

http://talkgraphics.infopop.net/1/Op...&ul=1101906325
Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[dafipp]

Suffice it to say I was a litte bit leary to try this out. But I figure whta the heck...its only data, right?
The good news:
It didn't totally crash my Millennium system.

The bad news:
I think it is only doing half of what you planned. Most (95%) of my Xara files are represented in the right side of the Explorer window with an icon showing their contents. However, when I select a .xar file, the left side preview pane does not show it. It just says "Preview not Available."

If you need any additional info let me know.
dafipp
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