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iamgreaser / iceball

Open-source rewrite of the VOXLAP version of Ace of Spades.
http://iceball.build
GNU General Public License v3.0
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PMF thumbnail preview for windows #82

Closed dany-on-demand closed 11 years ago

dany-on-demand commented 11 years ago

I think this would be really neat. Maybe something similar could work for icemap as well as vxl.

Maybe it could be implemented in the same executable that implements the iceball:// registration. It requires to code a shell extension which spawns a Shell Thumbnail Handler which is basically a COM server.

Here's a simple tutorial that could be helpful: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/797/The-Complete-Idiot-s-Guide-to-Writing-Shell-Extens http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/563114/NET-Shell-Extensions-Shell-Thumbnail-Handlers

The only question is, should it read an image from the pmf file itself, or should it render it on the go?

iamgreaser commented 11 years ago

After some discussion in #iceball this will NOT extend the pmf format. Considering this is some Windows-specific shit that quite frankly isn't vital and merely "would be nice", I will have nothing to do with this, other than making sure it doesn't clutter the codebase, and possibly bundling it with the Windows builds.

It will also be a separate project from this one.

@Dany0, feel free to send me the necessary files for inclusion into an Iceball release once you get it up to the stage where it works. I'm closing this issue.

rakiru commented 11 years ago

An iceball github organisation would've helped out here, allowing things like this and the master server to easily have their own repo.

Ericson2314 commented 11 years ago

Yeah, github organizations are nice. Don't see why not.