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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by "Jay Freeman (saurik)" <sa...@saurik.com> on 2001/12/06 10:14:32 UTC
Windows Shell Extension
What is happening on the Windows client front? I've been working on a
shell extension (I have it marking icons like Tortoise does for CVS, and
will be working on context menus and the such this weekend), and was
wondering if I was duplicating effort (up to this point most of it has
been under the side banner of "make my application framework support COM
correctly", and was just using the Subversion application as a good
excuse). I hadn't seen anyone else working on a shell extension, but I
thought I'd send out a query.
Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik@saurik.com
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Re: Windows Shell Extension
Posted by cm...@collab.net.
"Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <sa...@saurik.com> writes:
> I'll take that as a "no, you aren't duplicating effort", however :).
Heh. You can also take that as an "Oh, and did I mention I don't
really know much about COM layers?" :-) When I say "lofty goal", I
mean looooooooofty.
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RE: Windows Shell Extension
Posted by "Jay Freeman (saurik)" <sa...@saurik.com>.
Unknown (compilato?):
Interesting... seeing as a shell extension pretty much _has_ to be
written in C++, I quite harshly decided _against_ using the COM layer as
it just adds another mental layer of complication to the whole mess (ok,
so now I need to have the COM _client_ code too?). Even using a nice
framework like ATL using COM works out as slightly harder than just
using the library, and in this specific case there isn't any benefit.
Performance _is_ also an issue with these things: every time Windows
renders an icon my DLL needs to be talked to three times currently to
see if one of the three available icons should be applied to the file,
which means three _separate_ working copy checks due to how the icon
overlay system works. Although, that didn't affect my decision; that
was entirely based on "I know COM in and out, I also know working with
DLLs in and out, and it is just going to be harder and uglier", hehe.
I'll take that as a "no, you aren't duplicating effort", however :).
Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik@saurik.com
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From: cmpilato@collab.net [mailto:cmpilato@collab.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:37 AM
To: Jay Freeman (saurik)
Cc: svn-dev
Subject: Re: Windows Shell Extension
"Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <sa...@saurik.com> writes:
> What is happening on the Windows client front? I've been working on a
> shell extension (I have it marking icons like Tortoise does for CVS,
and
> will be working on context menus and the such this weekend), and was
> wondering if I was duplicating effort (up to this point most of it has
> been under the side banner of "make my application framework support
COM
> correctly", and was just using the Subversion application as a good
> excuse). I hadn't seen anyone else working on a shell extension, but
I
> thought I'd send out a query.
I had a lofty goal of doing this, but I decided to put it off until
Bill Tutt's COM layer was finished.
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Re: Windows Shell Extension
Posted by cm...@collab.net.
"Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <sa...@saurik.com> writes:
> What is happening on the Windows client front? I've been working on a
> shell extension (I have it marking icons like Tortoise does for CVS, and
> will be working on context menus and the such this weekend), and was
> wondering if I was duplicating effort (up to this point most of it has
> been under the side banner of "make my application framework support COM
> correctly", and was just using the Subversion application as a good
> excuse). I hadn't seen anyone else working on a shell extension, but I
> thought I'd send out a query.
I had a lofty goal of doing this, but I decided to put it off until
Bill Tutt's COM layer was finished.
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