[ANN] TortoiseHg 0.4 release candidate

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
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>  On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 20:50 +0200, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>  > > On 09.04.2008 20:23, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>  > >  > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > >>  Could you try killing all explorer.exe processes and restart
>  > >  >>  explorer.exe (Start -> run...)
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Did that. No effect either. Maybe I've overlooked something silly, but
>  > >  > I cannot figure what. Also, I did all the settings using the
>  > >  > TortoiseHg dialogs.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Actually, it seems to never show any icons. I just turned the global
>  > >  > setting back on. None. Then I reinstalled TortoiseHg and rebooted.
>  > >  > Still none. Weird. I used to have them with 0.3.
>  > >
>  > >  But you do have the context menu right?
>  >
>  > Yes, I do.
>  >
>  > >  Do you have any other tortoises installed (svn, cvs)? (There are only 15 icon
>  > >  slots available for all overlay handlers,
>  > >  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776858.aspx)
>  >
>  > Yes, I've installed TortoiseSvn. But that was there when the
>  > TortoiseHg icons were still working, too.
>
>  Ah, this is the source of the problems then.  Applications get overlay
>  icons in the order they were installed.  When you installed TortoiseSvn,
>  it essentially took all of the remaining slots so the 0.4 installer was
>  unable to register it's icons.
>
>  Uninstalling tortoisesvn, then installing tortoisehg and tortoisesvn
>  again in that order should fix it.
>
>  There's a plan in place to make all of the tortoise projects share
>  overlays, but this won't be in place until the next major release of
>  both tortoisesvn and tortoisehg.

Funnily though, after I booted again this morning, the icons are now
here and behave as expected with regard to local and global settings.
I'm mystified. I have touched neither the TortoiseHg nor the
TortoiseSvn installation in between.