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Dynamic Icons Issue
« on: October 02, 2025, 05:23:55 pm »
Hello

What do you think it is the issue that is shown on the pic?
The PNG files on the upper folder does not show as thumbnail icons.

It is ArcaOS 5.1.1 with Dynamic Icons 2.5.6

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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2025, 09:20:49 pm »
Hi Martin

What do you have set to display png files?

I have PMView set so png files display the PMView icon here - even those in the BIGICONS directory until I set PMView Icon Thumbnails to Automatically Create when using PMView File Open on a directory containing png icons eg BIGICONS.


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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2025, 03:39:07 am »
Hello Pete

PMView is the default application to open PNG files. But I don't think that should affect to see the thumbnail on the desktop.
Is there any other setting that can produce this ?

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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2025, 11:13:54 am »
Hello Pete

PMView is the default application to open PNG files. But I don't think that should affect to see the thumbnail on the desktop.
Is there any other setting that can produce this ?

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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2025, 11:52:28 am »
Why is this "problem" attributed to Dynamic Icons? D.I. converts an object's OS/2 icon to a variable-sized PNG image which it then displays. It has nothing to do with thumbnail creation. Nor for that matter do generic folders ('WPFolder') - they don't create them either. For automatic creation of thumbnails, you need a "Lighttable folder" ('MMFolder').

If you have the latest version of 'oo', you can use it to convert a normal folder to a lighttable:

    oo /B C:\sys\icons\WhiteLightBlue MMFolder

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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2025, 04:19:40 pm »
Hi Rich.

Thanks for your reply.

I used OO 1.15 (2023-10-12) that you posted on the forum. (I don't know if there is a newer one). Run "oo /B C:\sys\icons\WhiteLightBlue MMFolder" and changed the Class type of the folder to MMFolder.

But it still does not render the .png files as thumbnails to be shown on the desktop.

On the picture (IconFolder.png), the calculator shows the icon, but it is because I saved the file with PMView and I guess it is showing the bitmap icon, not the PNG.

I think that it may be some problem on my WPS, after a reboot, it shows the first icons and not the rest (MMPNGIcons.png)
All the files (PNG files) on the folder are using the MMPNG class.

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« Last Edit: October 05, 2025, 06:54:57 pm by Martin Iturbide »
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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2025, 05:51:02 pm »
But it still does not render the .png files as thumbnails to be shown on the desktop.

This is a bug in MMFolder when it is set to "Single column" or "Multiple column". Only the icons that are visible when the window opens get thumbnails. If you scroll new objects into view, their icons are not replaced by thumbnails. Switch to "As placed" and everything should display correctly.

Bugs in CWMM can be reported through AN's Mantis Bug Tracker. The bug will usually be handled by CWMM's maintainer, Gregg Young.

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Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2025, 11:35:09 pm »
Thanks Rich. I will do some testing with fresh install and open the ticket to Arca Noae.

In other subject, I found a lot of value in your update to oo (version 1.15) that you posted here on the forums. I was wondering if you can also post it to HobbesArchive to replace version 1.10.

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