aclview

aclview is a Total Commander lister plugin that shows the NTFS ACL of a file or directory.

Features

• Verbose description of the ALC instead of the microscopic default Windows dialog.
• Any NTFS file system item can be examined.
• Supports dark mode.
• Support Total Commander 32-bit (.wlx) and 64-bit (.wlx64).

Requirements

• Tested on Microsoft Windows 10 and later.
• Tested with Total Commander 10.52 (32 or 64-bit) and later.

Getting started

• Double-click aclview.zip in Total Commander.

Developing

To build the code you need:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition or later

Setup

Create the following directory structure:

bin
aclview

• bin contains a portable version of Total Commander 32-bit and 64-bit for debugging purposes.
• aclview contains the Git repository.

Building

Open aclview.sln with Visual Studio and build the solution.

Packaging

To create the package first build the x86 configuration and next the x64 configuration.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are warmly welcome.

Change Log

v0.4.0, 2023-06-30, "Greed is not good"

• Improved: Only directories will be examined.

v0.3.1, 2023-06-30, "Is it dark in here?" (Redux)

• Bug Fix: Forgot to make dark mode conditional.

v0.3.0, 2023-06-26, "Is it dark in here?"

• Implemented light and dark mode.

v0.2.0, 2023-06-15, "A small step"

• Implemented percentage display for the Lister window menu bar.
• The text can be searched using the default search feature of the Lister.
• The content gets updated when switching between items in Quick View mode.
• Improved: Optimized text highlighting.

v0.1.0, 2023-06-14, "Scratchin' the itch"

• Initial release.

Acknowledgements / Credits

• Christian Ghisler for Total Commander.

Reference Material

• Total Commander
  • SDK
• Windows User Interface
  • Desktop App User Interface
  • Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
  • Windows Controls
    • RichEdit
  • Control Library
  • Resource-Definition Statements
  • Visuals, Layout

Links

• Home page: https://github.com/stuerp/aclview
• Repository: https://github.com/stuerp/aclview.git
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/stuerp/aclview/issues

License