POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Context switching : Re: Context switching Server Time
4 Sep 2024 19:24:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Context switching  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Apr 2010 16:43:20
Message: <4bcf6368$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   What would be the problem of, for example, supporting soft links natively
> in Windows Explorer? 
>   What would be the problem of adding an option to Windows Explorer to show
> exact byte sizes of files?

Go for it! :-)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773177%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd940376%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

Note that all the interactions with explorer are via COM.  If you wanted to 
change how Gnome or KDE displays that sort of thing, out of curiosity, what 
would you do?  (Serious question there.)  Would you have to change source 
code, or is there some sort of interface like COM or REXX or something to 
allow access?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
   open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.


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