https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11808
--- Comment #14 from Carlo Bramini carlo.bramix@libero.it --- (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #13)
(In reply to Carlo Bramini from comment #12)
Is there a reason because winefile is not using directly the treeview and listview common controls, besides the higher loading time of thousand of items because many calls to function SendMessage()?
It shouldn't use them directly. Ultimately winefile should simply open explorer file browser window, that in turn needs a lot of improvement.
I know that Windows changed winfile to a simple wrapper for opening an explorer file window, but in my opinion it would be better to leave the software as winfile was up to Windows 2000 (if I remember correctly). Actually winfile supports a set of interfaces that allows the integration with thirdy party plugins, see here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/it-it/bb762600(v=vs.100)
An example of these plugins if an old version of Graphic Workshop of Alchemy Mindworks, that I had used in the past. Keeping the current implementation would allow to run them, although I do not know if those extensions are supported or not at this time of writing.