[p4] What is "Show file state icons" supposed to do in WindowsFile Explorer?
Karr, David
david.karr at wamu.net
Tue Feb 19 08:09:49 PST 2008
Could one person send me a screen shot of Explorer showing the file
state icons? I'd like to make sure this is supposed to do what I
assume.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Karr, David
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:57 PM
> To: Stephen Vance
> Cc: Calman, Kevin; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] What is "Show file state icons" supposed to
> do in WindowsFile Explorer?
>
> By "check the connection info through p4exp", I assume you
> mean select the "Connection Information..." right-click menu.
> The info in that dialog looks ok. I tried navigating into
> different client view directories and viewing that, and it
> correctly shows different information for each client view.
>
> It appears that our support contract expired a week ago (yay).
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Stephen Vance [mailto:steve at vance.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:28 PM
> To: Karr, David
> Cc: Calman, Kevin; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] What is "Show file state icons"
> supposed to do in Window sFile Explorer?
>
>
> I'd get in touch with support on this. Without detailed
> conversation or hands-on, I don't have an easy suggestion.
> Check the connection info through P4EXP to see if it at least
> has the right settings.
>
> Steve
>
> Karr, David wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Calman, Kevin
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:57 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] What is "Show file
> state icons" supposed to
> do in Window sFile Explorer?
>
> In my experience, the P4 Explorer
> integration does not pay
> attention to changes in environment
> made after is invoked (at
> boot time), so P4CONFIG,
> 'p4 set ...', and other changes to the
> environment are
> ineffective. The only way I know of to
> change its effective
> client setting is via selecting a
> client specification as
> "Default" in P4Win, so that it is
> decorated with the red
> arrowhead to the lower left of the icon
> in the Clients view.
>
>
>
> That's unfortunate. However, the client view
> I'm looking at is my
> default client, so this still doesn't explain
> why it isn't working.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com on behalf of Karr, David
> Sent: Sun 2/17/2008 12:18 PM
> To: Stephen Vance
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] What is "Show file
> state icons" supposed to
> do in Windows
> File Explorer?
>
> I have a global environment variable
> P4CONFIG set to
> ".p4env". In the root of the client
> view, I have a file
> named ".p4env" which defines the
> P4CLIENT, P4PORT, P4USER,
> and P4PASSWD properties. I tried to
> view files in Windows
> Explorer in subdirectories of the
> client view root. Is there
> anything else I would have to have set
> up in order for this to work?
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Stephen Vance
> [mailto:steve at vance.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:42 AM
> To: Karr, David
> Cc: pnj at ravenbrook.com;
> perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] What is "Show
> file state icons"
> supposed to do in Windows File Explorer?
>
>
> P4EXP won't know what client
> workspace it is unless you
> have a P4CONFIG set or the P4CLIENT set
> in the environment or
> registry.
>
> Steve
>
> Karr, David wrote:
>
> -----Original
> Message-----
> From: Peter Jackson
> [mailto:pnj at ravenbrook.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February
> 17, 2008 12:28 AM
> To: Karr, David
> Cc:
> perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] What
> is "Show file
> state icons" supposed to
> do in Windows File
> Explorer?
>
> It does cause file icons
> to be
> decorated with Perforce
> information using the
> same conventions as P4WIN.
>
> It will only do this to
> files that are
> part of the Perforce
> workspace that it knows
> about, so
> perhaps you don't have that
> set up yet.
>
>
>
> By workspace, I assume you mean
> "client view".
> This client view has
> been "set up" for a long time
> now, and I've
> tried to view numerous files
> in Windows Explorer that have
> been checked in
> for quite a while, and it
> isn't showing anything in the
> file icons.
>
>
>
> The icons will also not
> appear if your
> workspace is
> incorrectly formed.
> In particular, if
> your ROOT field in
> the workspace is
> formed with forward
> slashes instead of
> backslashes (an easy
> mistake for some to
> make) then the icon
> decorations won't show.
>
>
>
> By the "ROOT field", do you mean
> the value that
> I entered in the text
> box with the label "Restrict the
> Explorer
> plug-in to the following
> folders. Type one path per line.
> Each line
> should begin with a drive
> letter."? When I saw this text
> box, I clicked
> the "Add Client Root to
> Filter" button, and that
> inserted a correct
> backslash path to the client
> root.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
>
> Karr, David wrote:
>
>
> In looking at
> the Perforce
> context menu on file elements in Windows
> File Explorer, I
> noticed the
> Preferences option "Show file state
> icons". I can't
> figure out
> what this is supposed to do.
>
>
> It would be
>
>
> intriguing if it
> decorated the file
> icons in Windows File Explorer
> with some
> information, but it
> doesn't appear to do that if
>
>
> I turn it
>
>
> on, or perhaps I
> have to do
> something else with that.
>
>
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