Re: [TSVN] Number of Icon Overlays

Simon Large wrote:
> A while back, Stefan changed the GUIDs to give us higher priority than
> TCVS which does seem to be rather profligate with its overlay use.
> Unfortunately it didn't have any effect, and I still lose overlays to
> TCVS. If we cannot get a common overlay set with TCVS, maybe we can work
> out some other way of co-operating so that the user decides for each
> product how many overlays get installed, and which ones get priority.

As I found out by many tries, the shell always uses the first overlay
handlers it finds. And apparently, it does this by listing registry
entries. And that function returns the entries in the order they were
installed, not alphabetically or otherwise sorted.
So, if you've installed TCVS first, it will use those overlay handlers
first - that means if you're updating TSVN more often than TCVS you'll
always loose a TSVN overlay.

About the cooperating with TCVS: I mentioned several times already that
this wouldn't work well enough. For example, both programs then would
need to provide the icons for both overlays. So you would loose the
ability to differ between CVS and SVN working copies because the
overlays would be the same.

Stefan

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