Make folder icons show in Start Menu and Hotlist?

[kunkel321]

Hi All,
Is there a way (and what is it) to make icons show in these areas?
Image: http://i.imgur.com/uMr8k.png
The Start Menu appears to have a column on the left reserved for icons, as evidenced by the "Change Start Menu..." button.

I'd like to also have the icons show for the Hotlist (also in above image), though I guess maybe that's not possible because the column on the left is used for that checkmark.

I did searches and was surprised to not find much. The most relevet thing I could find was this http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/Filelist_icons

Ideas? Thanks.

[petermad]

TC's Start menu does not currently support icons.

But you can make sub-bars to buttons in the Button bar and have them work as menus. Just use the "Show as menu" option in the button bar dialog.

It will look like this: http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/buttonbar-submenu.png

[fenix_productions]

TC's Start menu does not currently support icons.

No easy way for it but with some patience custom icons library can help:
http://www.fenixproductions.pl/files/tc/starticons.png

I am not sure about current version but in the past - using this trick "bugs" - it was even possible to have own applications icons in other menus.

[petermad]

2fenix_productions

With that solution you have to add a new icon in WCMICONS.DLL every time you add a new item in the start menu - and you also have to add an index number for the icon in WCMICONS.INC (number 701-899).

Furthermore, if you for example move a menu item, you have to change every item in the index list in WCMICONS.INC from the original index number until the new index number . For example if you have a Start menu with 25 items and you switch item number 2 and 23 then you have change the indices for number 702 to 723.

As you wrote: "Not easy way for it"

it was even possible to have own applications icons in other menus.

You can still use index 10001 and above in WCMICONS.INC for that purpose for the Main menu. I use that in my Extended menus (but only for icons that are already in WCICONEX.DLL) - see: http://www.totalcmd.net/files/tc8-uk.gif (Filters, Commands- Run Separate..., Tabs, Preferences, Windows 7, Help).

AFAIK it is not possible to use WCMICONS.INC/DLL to add icons to the Directory hotlist.

[kunkel321]

Thanks for the replies. I did get the sub-menu effect to work.
http://i.imgur.com/mgwdB.png

It's unfortunate that TC doesn't utilize the custom icon that is used for the folder. No worries though, most of my custom icons are in a DLL icon library I made anyway.

That WCMICONS.DLL hack sounds pretty geeky--I'll definitely give that a try

[fenix_productions]

You can still use index 10001 and above in WCMICONS.INC for that purpose for the Main menu. I use that in my Extended menus (but only for icons that are already in WCICONEX.DLL) - see: http://www.totalcmd.net/files/tc8-uk.gif (Filters, Commands- Run Separate..., Tabs, Preferences, Windows 7, Help).

Or…
The way Start menu was working in the past (IIRC):
check INI for menu1 entry, add to menu, increase counter by 1 and repeat BUT stop loop if entry does not exists.
So if you had menu1, menu2, menu13, menu14 Start menu listed only first two but cm_UserMenuX commands worked for all of them. You could hide some items from view by adding hight number to INI entries, to be sure you will never overlap them via Start edit dialogue and mess icons assignments that way.

Dunno if this info is still correct.