New Plisgo release

[Plisgo]

Hi guys,

Plisgo development has continued. I've just uploaded a new release.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/plisgo/
(The web page is all very basic at the moment.)


Just a quick recap, Plisgo is an Explorer extension system that
forwards the definition of custom columns, icons, menus, thumbnails
and overlays to the file system. So your file system implements a
plisgo folder, and providing Plisgo is installed, explorer shows up
your file systems UI.

There is a C++ lib to ease putting a plisgo folder into a filesystem,
and a Dokan example using it.

In this release there is also a C DLL of the Plisgo client lib. The
idea is that other languages (C# or Python (via ctypes) for instance)
can import and use functions from this DLL to put a Plisgo folder into
their filesystem. There is a C test program that should show how the
functions are used, but as yet I've not done a Dokan filesystem making
use of it (though it just wraps the C++ lib the C++ Dokan example uses
and I use for my internal filesystem).

The other thing in this release is the ability to use Plisgo to create
active menus from purely local folders (i.e non-virtual). Which is
basically a local file is executed when a user clicks on the menu
item.

Hope this of interest to anyone interested in doing an Explorer shell
for their filesystem. :-)


Eurocom Entertainment Software have kindly allowed me to put this out
their under the GPL.

Have fun!



Joe Burmeister

[Sachin Garg]

Does plisgo 'require' dokan to run or can the underlying filesystem be
any local/remote filesystem exposed as an explorer namespace?

SG

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[Plisgo]

Hi Sachin,


There is no need for the underlying filesystem to be virtual or Dokan.
It comes with an example that is purely local. The Dokan connection is
because that's my use of it and it's the best open source FUSE like
system for Windows I know. Not tested it with any other virtual
filesystems. If the other virtual filesystem has the same capabilities
as Dokan, it should be possible. The PlisgoFSLib, which can be used to
implement the Plisgo folder structure, doesn't depend on Dokan either,
so you could use it with anything.

Joe