Hello good day to all, this publication is to present a program that I recently finished , its name is FlareRenamer , it is a program that will help us to work with the names of the files that we have in a directory or that we add in the program, we can apply different filters as .

   *  File name in Lower Case, Upper Case, Capitalize .
   * Find and replace word.
   * Number the files .
   * Add date .
   * Add a name for all files(The numbering is enabled to avoid collisions).
   * Different languages available.
   * File filtering by extension.

The program has the RPM and DEB packages . also an OBS repository is available for openSUSE distributions where projects will be uploaded much faster . without further ado I leave you the address of the blog I made so you know about it . many thanks, suggestions to improve the program can be made at the following address.

henry151ea@yandex.com

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as well in the blog or in this publication.
project link
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/flarerenamer/

blog in Spanish about the program https://areadevsoft.blogspot.com/

I tried your program but it crashed here: -

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 many thanks for trying the program, it would help me a lot to know what version of package I install, if it was in rpm or the version of packages .deb, the problem is due to the lack of icon libraries .

I attach the necessary libraries and the path where it should go .


/home/henryguzman/.local/share/gambas3/lib/areadev

create folder "areadev" if not exists and change "henryguzman" by your username.


this will help me to know if the problem is when copying the libraries, again I appreciate your response in the forum.

unzip the libs file.zip in the following path

home/henryguzman/.local/share/gambas3/lib/areadev

 I think you should do away with easy_icons lib and use gambas routines.

You should be able to accomplish all the easy icons lib does with gb.desktop

Desktop.GetFileIcon(sFilePath, iSize)

DesktopMime.FromFile(sFilePath).GetIcon(iSize)

Various other means

Why exactly do yo use the easy icons lib and not gambas routines?

Another Icon searching function for you….
(I use this class in my apps and call SearchIcons() it works for things like gambas.desktop where the icon and exe name set have no path set, just 'gambas3')

Many thanks, I have solved the problem, since the installation file did not make the copy of the required libraries , there was also a problem of copying translation files to the destination configuration directory , I will take into account your tips .

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second time i try … second version that did not work …

Here is a function from one of my apps (a file browser) that lists a folder and get's icons for all items.
It checks if a file is a .desktop file and uses it's Icon= field anf if not it uses methods to get defaults.

Maybe it will help.
(Ps, the AppIcon class is the class i posted in the previous posts)

 i've been reviewing and trying to maintain the icon library, but as you say I'm going to remove the libraries and I'm going to check if I can load the icons with the example I put here, the versions in sourceforge remove them until all the modifications are complete . thank you for taking the time to test .

henry15ea said

i've been reviewing and trying to maintain the icon library, but as you say I'm going to remove the libraries and I'm going to check if I can load the icons with the example I put here, the versions in sourceforge remove them until all the modifications are complete . thank you for taking the time to test .

Honestly dude forget about libraries , nothing but headaches and lots of time trying to explain to people how to install them.

Here's a present for ya..

I just made a simple app that has a FileChooser object , just click a file and it loads it's icon at the bottom.

It has a function LoadIcon(Path As String)
It's basically the code i sent before but all cleaned up

It finds the icon and loads it into PictureBox1

You can see the difference in the picturebox and the filechooser icons, FileChooser just uses Desktop.GetFileIcon() i think.

My function checks .desktop files and loads their icons and also loads image icons as previews.

for a faster app just use a set (existing) icon size like 32 and change all the
Picture["icon:/128/iconname"].Image.Stretch($iIconSize, $iIconSize).Picture
statements to just…
Picture["icon:/32/iconname"]

My application can use any icon size so it loads an existing 128px icon and shrinks it

yes, as you say the libraries in Gambas are costing me a lot of work, yesterday I was doing tests with the code that you put and I have managed to load the icons very easily, now with the code that just shared I will study it to include it, if you give me permission truth .

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well I have implemented the code that you have placed and this is the result, it works very well   

henry15ea said

yes, as you say the libraries in Gambas are costing me a lot of work, yesterday I was doing tests with the code that you put and I have managed to load the icons very easily, now with the code that just shared I will study it to include it, if you give me permission truth .

Yes of course,
To be honest it is not the fastest of functions. I thought you would probably just want to load the loaded file to be renamed icon.
Just using Desktop.GetFileIcon(sPath, iSize, bPreview) may be much faster (but not as thorough) to load a whole dirs icons.

You're welcome

thank you very much !! , a moment ago I made a new committee to the git of the project in sourceforge, I also uploaded the source code of the project so that if they can help me if it gives them more problems, well welcome the comments, I have left a section where I want to thank them and add their names because they have helped me a lot reporting the problems that existed in the previous version.