Some good news! I was able put together a simple prototype of an overlay shell extension written with MingW g++ compiler. The prototype is based on some sample code I found on the web, plus some utility functions I adapted from TortoiseCVS to handle the wide-char strings. Right now it's just a simple overlay extension that talks to an RPC server, via Windows named pipe, to retrieve the file status.
One immediate benefit of this new overlay extension is that it no longer hangs the file dialog of Wing IDE. Also, with the shell extension now written in C++, we shall no longer be depending on the somewhat limited shell extension support in Pythonwin. However, the real performance of the overlay icons extension will still be depending on the performance of Hg in retrieving the file status, unless we are able to find the workaround on this. Unfortunately the shell extension code in TortoiseCVS is way too complicated for me to port to TortoiseHg, so I will have to start pretty much from scratch. Though there are some utility supports in TortoiseCVS that should benefit TortoiseHg. I will post to the lists when I have more update. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
