Display model / place file thumbnail as file thumbnail

You can preview images without even opening by just looking at their thumbnail:

For those of us that store a lot of place/model files on our computer, it’d be really nice to have the same sort of feature for model/place files. It’d help us to quickly pick out which one we wanted.

So, I’m not too keen on how file system works, but what I assume is happening is the image files have a file header in them that says ‘hey, I’m an image, and this kind of image too’, the OS sees that, and reads the file to give you the thumbnail, there may be a way around that, like I’ve seen thumbnail files, but I think those are OS specific, but it would be a pretty bad idea to give roblox files a header saying they are actually an image

I see where you’re getting at Echo, but keeping things organized seems to render this sort of useless. At least, it is for me.

[quote] I see where you’re getting at Echo, but keeping things organized seems to render this sort of useless. At least, it is for me.

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If you arrange it by list/detail, you’ll get the compact view:

If you want a large list of files, you’ll be good – it won’t display the thumbnails; however, if you want the thumbnails (assuming this could be implemented), you’re good too because you can just change it to medium/large icons.

If someone wants to be hacky enough they can do this with C#:

http://geekswithblogs.net/Jialiang/archive/2010/11/08/writing-windows-shell-extension-with-.net-4---part-3.aspx

[quote] If someone wants to be hacky enough they can do this with C#:

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I think the hard part now is turning the camera’s view into an image.

[quote] If someone wants to be hacky enough they can do this with C#:

Home - Geeks with Blogs [/quote]

I think the hard part now is turning the camera’s view into an image.[/quote]

Use some Process.Start hacks and http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20651/Capturing-Minimized-Window-A-Kid-s-Trick you can capture it.