Re: Drive path and drive display name question

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From: Mark Jacobs
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:03

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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> There is no single API function for that.  What you can try doing, though,
> is using IShellFolder::ParseDisplayName() or SHParseDisplayName() to convert
> the display name into an ITEMIDLIST, and then pass that to
> SHGetPathFromIDList().  For example:
>
>     #include <utilcls.h>
>
>     LPITEMIDLIST IL_GetNext(LPCITEMIDLIST pidl)
>     {
... and so on for 57 pages!!!

Remy, I hope I never have to debug your code. And I hope that MFC programming will be around for long enough
for your skills to become more widely noticed.
-- 
Mark Jacobs
DK Computing
http://www.dkcomputing.co.uk
markj atty critical dotty co dotty uk

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