How to get overlay icons in file explorer (Mac+Win)

[Kukulkan]

Hello,

can someone point me to the right APIs on Windows and Mac to get such overlay icons like TortoiseGit, Dopbox etc.?
And if someone is already having some PB example, it would be even better

This is how it looks on Mac. I talk about the green and red icon that overlays the original file icon.
http://img4web.com/view/B3M1NJ

Thanks!

[Shardik]

Have you already taken a look into the cross-platform library Liferay Nativity?

Liferay Nativity is a cross-platform library for adding icon overlays and context menus to file browsers.

The following operating systems are currently supported:

• Windows Vista or greater (tested up to Windows 8 )
• Mac OS X 10.7 or greater (tested up to OS X 10.8.4)
• Linux GNOME Nautilus 3.x or greater (tested up to Nautilus 3.6)

[Kukulkan]

Hello Shardik,

thank you. Yes, I already found it while research, but this is what they say:

Currently the client code is only available for Java. Contributions for other clients like Ruby, C++, etc are welcome.

As I do not like to utilize any JAVA components or frameworks, it will not work.

Any other ideas?

Kukulkan