If I use
*Popup "Games" "!DynamicFolder:$Programs$\Games"
as a sub menu the program icons are shown to the left of the shortcut

However, I do not want my games list as a submenu. I am trying to configure a button that just displays my list of games. If I use
!popupDynamicFolder "$Programs$\Games"
I displays my games but there are no icons, just a blank space to the left of the name.

I didn't find any valid info with a search of this forum or google. Any ideas?

You'll want to look in the module's readme files (packed with the module - also located in the \modules\docs folder) and do a search for the word "extraction."

a lot of games have actual .ico files. if yours do, you can just use the following...


for instance:

wait..."$Programs$\Games"...if you have icons turned on, then they should be showing, at least in this case. I have a folder full of my most often used shortcuts, and I just have
to view the contents of the folder.

Well I'm new so I might be doing something wrong.

works exactly the way I want it to with icons and everything when used as a sub menu (embedded in another popup). From what I understand in order to get it to come up by itself I replace the * in the beginning with a ! and put it directly in the triger rather then naming the popup and calling it but when I click the button nothing happens. I switched out the *popup "games" !dynamicfolder in favor of *popupdynamicfolder because it correctly lists the folder contents. The only thing missing are the icons.

nope, you would just run this !bang:

of course, modify the path to fit your needs, first.

That's exactly what I'm doing and not getting any icons. :(
Ok. So I'm doing it right. There's just a setting somewhere I'm missing probably.

hmmm...are you using xpopup, or popup2, or what? because xpopup seems to have icons enabled by default, but I don't believe popup2 does.

Looks like popup2. I set popupicons to true in my step.rc like the documentation shows but no luck. The theme is Ghost 1.11 btw.

I have the same problem. I get icons in normal popups, but I get no icons in popupdynamicfolders. I'm also using Popup2 - 2.1.7 to be exact. Is this a bug/'feature' in Popup2 by any chance?

My old popup2 settings have been buried beneath millenia of x-module detritus. IOW, I don't remember any more.