Thumbnailprovider.dll

[rasomei]

Hello,

i would like to have thumbnails for my freecad-projects under Windows 7, but i can not compile. Is anybody there who has already compiled the dll
and can give it to me?

thanks a lot.

rasomei

[wmayer]

In the attached zip there is the Win64 and the Win32 DLL. To register it follow these instructions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regsvr32
Note, you need admin rights therefore.

[mario52]

hi
done thanks

icones avec apercu du dessin
mario

[kisolre]

Just tried and it works ok (Windows 8.1 x64). Is this enabled in the windows installer packages (I am mostly using latest dev builds) ?

[wmayer]

Just tried and it works ok (Windows 8.1 x64). Is this enabled in the windows installer packages (I am mostly using latest dev builds) ?

Don't think so because the v0.19 installers will be changed not to require admin rights any more. However, the plugin must be installed as a shell extension to Windows Explorer and therefore requires admin permission.

[kisolre]

It is a nice addition and not been visible to the users is a pity. I can't find reference in the site to this possibility. Adding this info to installation documentation and providing the recent DLL would be nice.

[apeltauer]

I like the thumbnail.... We should try to add this to the installer...

[uwestoehr]

Don't think so because the v0.19 installers will be changed not to require admin rights any more. However, the plugin must be installed as a shell extension to Windows Explorer and therefore requires admin permission.

Note that you can of course install FC using admin permissions. So the user has the choice: If he is admin, he can install FC for all users or only for himself. If he is not admin, he can installer FC at least for him.

Conncerning the thumbnails, there is an NSIS library to perform ths installation of the required DLL. I will have a look the next days and implement this in the installer.
Too bad that I missed this thread. sgrogan kindly just pointed me to this. Please CC me the next time for Win installer issues.

[uwestoehr]

Conncerning the thumbnails, there is an NSIS library to perform the installation of the required DLL.

I implemented this now but the result is very disappointing:

example view

explorer_e9EuIZ4JYt.png (188.15 KiB) Viewed 2305 times

Only 3 files get thumbnails. The problem is in my opinion that in the settings, General section, the option Save thumbnail into project file... is not checked by default. The vast majority of users use the default and also I first discovered this feature while writing the corresponding Wiki page.

So I can implement to register the DLL file necessary to get thumbnails, but I would also like to have the thumbnail saving option turned on by default that our users see the advantage.

[triplus]

As "Recent files" functionality of Start workbench uses file thumbnail, whenever available, i agree that the option to add a thumbnail to the file should be set to ON, by default.