WinT and my self and even some others have searched long and hard for these with no luck...

myself as well with no luck

would be sweet tho.

Well, according to grigri, the well known c++ coder, they are part of the treeview control, meaning, we can't modfiy them at all I'm not one to give up easily, but I have to admit, I do believe him in full, mainly because he is as smart as he is, but also because I've searched every dll file, every exe, everything. I've seen every icon, every bitmap, every gif, every string table, everything, and nowhere can I find anything that even comes close to those + and - symbols

So, unless something comes around from another source, I have to back explicit and meth up on this one, just isn't gonna happen

There are other things you can do to that treeview though, couple of tuts floating around at my site covering it, lot's of stuff you can do actually, makes for a big difference

Oh, this thing again

I did manage to change the plus/minus on the explorer treeview, at the same time as I put a background bitmap on it. The problem was that it was terribly slow and ate more system resources than Garfield eats lasagne. Plus it had a few bugs.

I'll dredge out the source code from my dungeon drive and see what I can do...

right, found the source code, fixed a few bugs.

Download it here

Before you run it, beware:

* This is a pre-alpha version - it either works or it doesn't. Nothing is configurable
* It has only been tested on XP - so far...

How did you put it in the readme.. "it either works or crashes majestically". Well, no crashes, XP, but also 98 and 2k, it just works, that is, background and +/- signs etc. In 98, there's not enough room to show your custom dotted lines and all, but that's probably some settings on my side. Whole treeview part 'skinned', working, pretty impressive !

Now for the other part, the "breadcrumb" path toolbar, which is pretty innovative too, that only works in XP. In 98 and 2k it's there, but empty.

For something pre-alpha, pretty good, imho .

Well, Good attempt, boys. Thank you very very much to everybody!

It seems my Win98 look will never be really closed to Linux so, I'll use both (until necessary applications or file formats work correctly on this OS)!

Hey, didn't even check this thread much grigri, had no clue you released this Very cool indeed, working good here This app should get more attention, as I don't think to many users know about it.

wild!

works absolutely perfect here on winMe -
( 'cept for the path toolbar, like plastic said, is empty here as well... )

might use up some resources, but with not one side effect on my system. works really really sweet with no slowdown or nothing.

i'd really be into a configurable version of this...

/me bows down to the kung fu coding of grigri...

Ok, well with so many positive comments, I suppose I have to continue development and make it configurable

The 'breadcrumb' toolbar [nice choice of words] was originally the whole point of the program, it was only when I realised that loading a toolbar was perfect for subclassing the treeview (because it gets loaded for each explorer window, inside the explorer.exe process space) that I changed it. The next version will not have that toolbar, only a button for configuring changes.

Also, I had an idea - interested in controlling the list view [right-hand pane] as well? Personally I'd like it so when you rename (F2 or click rename) by default it hilights the non-extension part of the filename, so you can quickly rename without having to type the extension.

Any other ideas?

it doesn't work here, i;m on XP SP1 , and i really want it to work, i always wanted to change those signs.
I had the same problem with the new QuickMenu version, plastic is on XP SP1 also, the QuickMenu toolbar worked there ,grigri's app also, while on my system it doesn't work.
Could the problem be in an .ocx , .dll or toher system files?

hmm... this may complicate things.

exactly what doesn't work? Does it crash, or just nothing happens?

If I'm going to do this, it's got to be cross-platform, so even one config that screws it up is a huge nasty thorn under my fingernail (probably the one I press return with

i register the .dll, it says "nice job spyder, you registered grigri's shell extension" , i mean the register process works,theni doubleclick the .rg file, but when i go to View/Toolbars/ it doesn't show PathBand.DeskBand.
i tried loging off, but still doesn't work.

Aw shite this sounds bad.

Does SP1 only accept "registered" toolbars, or something like that? Are you using the administrator account? Can you install other explorer toolbars? [google toolbar, my HTML toolbar, ...]

It definately sounds like a registration problem rather than a coding problem.

hmmm...

if it means anything, i was able to register the dll correctly, but wasn't able to merge the reg file. i had to hand edit the registry with the proper keys, and then the pathbar.toolbar showed in the menu and so therefore worked perfect, as i had mentioned.

google toolbar works, also your HTML toolbar.
i use an administrator account (you taught me this one )

try that the spyder... manually insert the registry keys

if my HTML toolbar works then *logically* this one should too, it's the same code base

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