casbreuk Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 (edited) For the first time EVAR on any of my computers, I've managed to get the thumbnails for .pdn files to display! OS: Win7 x64 Paint.NET v3.5.5 (Final Release build 3.55.3767.28608) I've always only seen the red x icon for the .pdn files. Since win7 doesn't have a File Types tab in the folder options anymore, I used a program called: "FileTypesMan" I was just trying to get windows to show the PaintDotNet icon from its exe, instead of the ugly red x. Even if I changed the icon and hit refresh, the red x would appear again. Made me think it was actually attempting to display a thumbnail, but didn't know how. So, I changed the File Type to DOCUMENT (was IMAGE). Poof! Suddenly, the thumbnail properly appeared! So, I think you guys have a bug in the thumbnail code... Edited September 25, 2010 by casbreuk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Doesn't work here. Good try though. I've had a bug filed on this for awhile. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Works for me on Home Prem. Thanks very much!!! Highly appreciated. Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Hmm, well it doesn't work for me. Too bad, I really want to know why this happens. Especially why it only happens on some systems but not others. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 What view are you in in Explorer when you're looking at the pdn files? (just checking ) Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Thumbnails. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Like this, right? Works for me on single- and multi-layered pdn files. Could that be an issue? Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 That's the view I'm using. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Thought so. Did you run FileTypesMan as admin when changing the type of the .pdn file? Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Looks like I finally figured this out. It seems that the DirectX SDK litters some generic thumbnail handler all over the place, and one of the registry keys is uses has a higher precedence than what Paint.NET has been using. If you go to the following registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Paint.NET.1 \ ShellEx \ {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1} and change the (Default) value to: {D292F82A-50BE-4351-96CC-E86F3F8049DA} (the old value may have been "{8938a035-768d-40c5-9560-bb901087e2af}") Then this will fix it. I'll see if I can get a fix in place for the v3.5.6 release. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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