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Author Topic: Icons are not shown  (Read 5516 times)

Thunder5

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Icons are not shown
« on: April 25, 2011, 02:16 PM »
I have a folder with some portable apps in it - one of it is FARR.

The folder structure is like this:
\PortableApps\CCleaner
\PortableApps\Find and Run Robot
\PortableApps\foobar2000

I run FARR in portable mode and I added the search folder "%FARRDIR%\.." in the options.
When I search for "findand" the executable of FARR is shown with a standard icon (see attachment). Its the same with all tools in the folder PortableApps.
I tried it with "%FARRDRIVE%\PortableApps" with the same result.
But when I add the whole path "C:\PortableApps" the correct icon is shown.

I checked it on Windows XP SP3 32bit and Windows 7 64bit.

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 02:24 PM »
hi thunder.

But when I add the whole path "C:\PortableApps" the correct icon is shown.

that's a big clue.

here's my guess --  maybe extra \ being added to %FARRDIR% or %FARRDRIVE% -- can you try: %FARRDRIVE%PortableApps and see if that works.
if so i'll try to fix my code so it's not needed.

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2011, 02:44 PM »
That's a fast answer.

I tried it with "%FARRDIR%.." with no success.

And I have to correct my first post.
"%FARRDRIVE%\PortableApps" and "%FARRDRIVE%PortableApps" doesn't find anything in "C:\PortableApps".

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 09:11 AM »
I also have an issue with icons but maybe not the same issue.
I use farr on 2 different computers that I keep in sync with my usb drive. On the xp machine if I type "helpfarr" I get the results with nice icons. On my win 7 system I do the same and I get the proper results but the icons are generic; by generic I mean they look like a sheet of paper with the corner folded down.

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2011, 09:39 PM »
/icon=%Farrdir%icons\someicon.ico doesn't show icons.

Typing out the full path does eg /icon=c:\farr\icons\someicon.ico.

So i just used the %aliasdir% variable instead. Example /icon=%aliasdir%..\..\icons\someicon.ico

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2012, 06:30 AM »
/icon=%Farrdir%icons\someicon.ico doesn't show icons.
Did you also try with %FARRDIR% in all caps? that might help...

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2012, 07:34 AM »
thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try when i get back to the desktop. Does the variable work in yours?

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Re: Icons are not shown
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2012, 04:53 AM »
Hi,

I have the same problem on network folders (\\Computername\...)
...all the icons are the same: a blue backgound with a "c:\" text...

Any suggestions?

Great day for everyone :)