FolderCustomizer 1.5
What is FolderCustomizer?
The FolderCustomizer application lets you customize your folders by a simple
drag/drop session. What it does is to paste the icon of the file you drop
over its parent folder (for those who use MacOS, it's the BeOS counterpart
of FolderIcon and so on...).
How to use FolderCustomizer?
There's no simpler way to use it. Just drag the file you want the icon
to be over the parent folder onto the FolderCustomizer icon and drop it.
That's all, folk's. As soon as it's dropped, the parent folder icons will
be updated.
If you lauch FolderCustomizer, you get a simple window with two buttons
and two drop zones.
The two buttons are labeled "About..." and "Quit". No time to waste
on explanations on what they're intended to do.
The drop zones are labeled "Set icons" and "Clear icons". They become
active by draging a file on them.
To set custom icons to a folder, drop a file in the "Set icons" zone.
It does the same work as dropping a file on the application itself.
To reset a folder to it's standard icons, drop a file or the folder
itself in the "Clear icons" zone.
How does FolderCustomizer work?
It's really simple. It takes the 16x16 icon of the file you drop and paste
it over the 32x32 folder icon. And does the same with 16x16 folder icon
after having reduced the 16x16 file's icon to a practically invisible 8x8
bitmap. The folder's attributes are then set with the new icons.
Bugs.
This version is published because, in my humble opinion , it's bug free.
But, as everybody knows, bug free software doesn't exist, so if you have
to complain about it, email to mdidier@mail.vtx.ch
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Limitations.
If you drop more than one file at once, only the first one is used.
If you drop several different icons that reside in the same folder,
their parent foler will look a bit trashy.
There's no dialog, even if something goes wrong. The only displayed
messages go to the terminal window (a good way to learn french slang is
to run it from a terminal window!).
Planned enhancements.
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May be would it be cool to make it as a Tracker add-on.
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And every good idea you give me.
Version history
1.0 (07.23.98)
Initial release.
1.5 (07.28.98)
Corrected the application signature (was not the same as the
app name).
Added a method to revert folders icons to their original.
Added a bit of user interface in the window when lauched without refs.
About this piece of code.
FolderCustomizer is freeware. However, if you like it and use it, you HAVE
to send me a postcard to the address bellow:
Marc A. Didier
Rue Francois-Durafour 11
1220 Les Avanchets
Geneva, Switzerland
If you have any suggestion (good or bad), feel free to email to
mdidier@mail.vtx.ch .
Have fun.