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Posted by Steven Ickman [MSFT] on May 22, 2005, 1:59 pm
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Mike, I'm glad it worked. :)
I don't have Mindjet installed but you can try mapping their MindMaps to the
native previewer to see if things improve. You can basically think of the
native previewer as a way to bypass our normal preview generation logic. The
native previewer returns to me the URL of the selected item which I then
navigate the preview panes embedded browser control to. This approach puts
the burdon of rendering on IE's shoulders so that means IE needs to
understand how to render the item for things to work right. But for things
IE already knows how to render well this is a great approach.
So that means Mindjet's mindmaps will only render properly using the native
previewer if they're already displayable by IE. The best way to test this is
try and open one within IE by typing the filename of a mindmap into IE's
address bar. If it works and you like the preview go into the registry and
map previews for the mindmaps file extension to the native previewer GUID you
used to map .zip files.
Oh, and please let us know any file types you find that render well using
the native previewer so we can look into setting up these mappings by default
in future builds. :)
-Steve
"MikeAP" wrote:
> Hi Steve - Many thanks for this very clear answer: your workaround has worked
> for me, and gives a preview showing files as icons, which is certainly a big
> improvement. It still does not pinpoint the match though, and I'm guessing
> this may be trickier.
>
> Also, if I can have a supplementary question, is there a similar way to
> improve the preview for Mindjet MindMaps? Best regards - Mike.
>
> "Steven Ickman [MSFT]" wrote:
>
> > Mike, to have the contents of .zip files show up within the preview pane
> > you'll need to add a registry entry mapping the preview of .zip files to a
> > component we call the native previewer. We're looking into making this
> > change part of the next version but here's the workaround for now:
> >
> > - 1st create a new registry sub-key called ".zip" under
> >
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RSSearch\ContentIndexCommon\Previewers\Extension".
> >
> > - Next change the "(Default)" value of this key to the string
> > "". If you need an example of what
the
> > values for this key should be just look at
> >
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RSSearch\ContentIndexCommon\Previewers\Extension\.xsd"
> >
> > - Finally reboot your machine and you should now see the actual contents of
> > .zip files instead of our default preview.
> >
> > - Also, if you want to see the contents of .zip files mailed as attachments
> > you'll need to go into the "Desktop Search - Advanced" tab under the "MSN
> > Search Toolbar Options" dialog and add ";.zip" to the "Preview attachments"
> > list.
> >
> > If your not comfortable editing the registry then by all means DON'T. I'm
> > sure someone will read this and post a script to fix this issue.
> <SNIP>
>
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