I have a small utility configured to generate a tree image showing the contents of an archive, which I can invoke through QuickShow/the viewer.
At some point, it looks like an option was added to prevent archives from being treated as folders when generating thumbnails. Is there any way to use those images generated through Preferences / Miscellaneous / External Tools for that purpose?
I'd like to include the generated thumbnail in the infotip to make quick previews more useful.
As far as I can think, there isn't a simple way to do it for zip files. But you could use External Tools with a script/exe of your own, which takes the in-path, works out which file it wants as the image, and copies it to the out-path.
We have some ideas about ways to make this easier, but I think that would work at the moment.
(Other options are a viewer/thumbnail plugin or a shell thumbnail provider, but both would be more work than making a little tool to copy the file.)
Thanks, Leo. That indeed works, but only for QuickShow/the Viewer. It doesn't get triggered for thumbnail related tasks.
My question is whether there's any option or setting that can force it to run when a thumbnail is requested, ( eg. from an infotip using {thumbnail}).
Is that even with Preferences / File Display Modes / Thumbnails / Folders / Archive folder thumbnails turned off?
(In thumbnails view mode) :
Yes, when is off the associated icon is used
When is on, is treated like a folder. Also when is on, if there's an archive inside a folder, that does trigger the thumbnail gen using the external tool.
Edited: From a infotip, when is off there's no thumbnail. When is on, is treated like a folder.