[python-win32] Overlay Icon Question and network drives

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Jurgen & All,

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM,  <python at kareta.de> wrote:
> the code in my first link was from the mercurial extension TortoiseHG. They
> found some issues that the icon overlay slows down network devices. See here:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1892791&group_id=199155&atid=968354
>
> Could you please tell if you have the same issues with the code Roger posted ?

I am still having some problem with this class... it's an incredible
amount of time/work spent on a very small issue, but that is what the
users want :-). Anyway, on my computer, Roger's version doesn't slow
down anything. Our 4 network drives are as fast as usual. However, I
am not able to make it work from a compiled py2exe COM server. It
works only from a python script. For the compiled py2exe COM server, I
have looked into the file c:/comerror.txt, which says:

PATH is ['D:\\ResWizard\\KSVR_COMServer.exe']
Registered: K-SVR.IShellIconOverlayIdentifier

The registry keys are correctly written but there is no icon overlay,
nothing has changed visually :-( :-( . If I run it from a Python
script, the icon overlay works fine but every time I open a file
dialog from one of my applications I get this nice error in the
app.exe.log file created by py2exe:

pythoncom error: PythonCOM Server - The 'win32com.server.policy'
module could not be loaded.

<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named server.policy
pythoncom error: CPyFactory::CreateInstance failed to create instance.
(80004005)

Which, as usual, doesn't mean anything to me...
So, I don't see any slowdown but I can't make this little sweet thing
play nice :-( :-(

Andrea.

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