how use old total commander v6 icons in newer versions ?

maicod · Post by *maicod » 2014-01-13, 21:39 UTC

Hi I'd like to use all file type and drivebar icons from V6 in the newer Total Commander version. I find the newer icons so 'bleak' or 'soft' looking. I know there are icon packs that I can use but none has all the old style icons that V6 used. Maybe there is a way to incorporate the dll file with the icons from the V6 version into the new version ?

milo1012 · Post by *milo1012 » 2014-01-14, 01:39 UTC

I have a DLL with file type and drivebar icons from TC 6.
It works well for TC 8 and 8.5.

I could post it here as b64 but I don't know if it would be OK for Mr. Ghisler to do so. (it's his copyright after all)
(well, you could extract the icons from the TC 6 resources and create a DLL on your own)

maicod · Post by *maicod » 2014-01-14, 01:53 UTC

hi Milo. the dll would be very cool but then we'd need permission of mr Ghisler first huh. You tell me about the TC6 resources. Do you mean the files in the program dir of an installed TC6 and which file holds the Icons ? Before I posted my question I tried browsing them with icon extractor but couldnt find them.

milo1012 · Post by *milo1012 » 2014-01-14, 02:04 UTC

They are all in the TOTALCMD.EXE, the WCMICONS.DLL serves different icons.

I'm not sure if an "icon extractor" would work for the exe, you probably need a Resource Editor for that, since it's also Bitmaps, not just Icons, for the Drivebar.
Oh and you probably also need to decompress things first, but I won't go into details since this is already some kind of Reverse engineering...

maicod · Post by *maicod » 2014-01-14, 02:17 UTC

thanks for explaining. I'm not sure if I am able to do the steps you explained and indeed they might be also not allowed by mr Ghisler. I'll see what I can do.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2014-01-14, 06:13 UTC

You can't modify TOTALCMD.exe, it checks its CRC so it won't run. However you can make an icon pack and a drive icon pack (a DLLs with icons and bitmaps in resources, you can find some examples on totalcmd.net) and write paths to packs to wincmd.ini:

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[Configuration]
IconLib=oldgoodicons.icl
DriveLib=oldgooddriveicons.dll

Also try following option:

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[Configuration]
OldDriveIcons=1

(more details in TOTALCMD.chm, section 4.b)