[VB6] ucShellBrowse: A modern replacement for Drive/FileList w/ extensive features

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Reply to Post #3:
Thanks for the feedback. For #3, you're talking about the View button right (refer to the picture in the main post)... is the option to show the View button enabled, and are you on standard DPI (I haven't checked anything regarding DPI sensitivity yet), and OS version? I'll have to take a more thorough look since as the picture indicates, it appears normally on my system.
With #4, does refreshing fix the issue? I've had to add a couple refreshes for things like that before, it usually works. If not, does changing directories fix it? Or adding/hiding a column? I'll take a look myself of course but additional feedback always helps.

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Here is how the form looks like when I first run your sample:



and here is what the form looks like when I dragged the bottom right to show more of the form (I also drug the date/time column header to the right to show file date/times):



I am running Windows 10 and have a scaling factor of 175% set. I'll run this on another machine later where the scaling factor is set to 100% and let you know how it looks.

Ah, definitely a DPI scaling issue then. None of the scaling adjusts for that yet; I'll do it for the next version though, I'm more familiar with it now and it worked out pretty well after making the TaskDialogIndirect project work with different DPI.


Edit: Regarding the View switching, can you confirm, the only time a problem arises is when Thumbnail view is activated and then switched out of? Thumbview changes the imagelist and item icon indecies, so to fix it I restored those in the switchout. I have no idea why the details weren't showing in the columns, but calling a refresh after the switchout restores them.

Does this support custom/virtual data sources in any way? That getting file lists not tied to the file system?

I ask because I have a bunch of data with hashed file names stored on the file system, but with virtual links to those files in a database and custom "file names". I'm thinking about implementing something where users can browse the database of links just like explorer, and I'm curious if your demo would be useful for something like that.

Thanks!

I'm not sure there's anything that would benefit over starting from scratch; there's very little in the project that does any manual file handling, it's all back and forth with the shell. I'm not entirely sure the format you mean though; if you just wanted to replace the file system names with one looked up from a database, that would be easy enough, just a couple lines in the enumerator (and would work out well, since the display name is largely unconnected to anything about the file)... if that's not an accurate picture of what you're doing can you clarify?