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IridiumIO / CompactGUI

Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs
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Using colors to see what folder is already compressed #322

Closed raphaeldan closed 1 year ago

raphaeldan commented 1 year ago

Is there any way to see whats folder is alread compressed?

Windows alread have an option that marks in blue color a folder compressed.

Thanks for advice.

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Masamune3210 commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately no, unless a shell extension is developed to do it and that IMO is a lot of work just to add something like that. Explorer only has native support for the compression that it can handle itself, anything else Microsoft has yet deemed it worthy of getting notice of it

Sduibek commented 1 year ago

@Masamune3210 Hi! Just wanted to confirm if this same info here and at #289 still applies to Windows 11 as well?

(Asking in case Win11 improved the compression functionality or API etc etc since Win10.)

Masamune3210 commented 1 year ago

It will likely be the case for quite a while, Microsoft doesn't even make these compression types easily user accessible like the explorer one, so the chances of them adding explorer support for them is slim to none

Sduibek commented 1 year ago

Ah okay, no worries! Thanks for confirming.

Iridium-IO commented 1 year ago

Shell extensions are an absolute pain to work with and I'm no good at C++ at all, let alone the interop needed to get it working between VB.NET.

Hell, I couldn't even get the right click shortcut menu to work on the new Windows 11 menu.

It is absolutely possible to do (could even hijack a custom folder icon like OneDrive or Google Drive do) but that's beyond my capabilities