Invoking Program Shell Properties dialog

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4 total messages Started by Mike Collins Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:30

#221

Author: Mike Collins
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:30

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Hay guys, just a quicky.  Have no real idea how to do the following so any 
pointers would be great.

I've got a list of programs and applications that a user has tried executed. 
I display this in a list for viewing.  I want to provide the user a an 
option or link that allows them to see the Properties for a given program. 
To avoid having to code this all myself, I was wondering if there is a way 
to envoke the Shell Properies for a given application (like you get 
displayed when you right-click on a program and select Properties)

Many thanks in advance,

Mike

Re: Invoking Program Shell Properties dialog

#222

Author: Mike Collins
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:03

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Hay guys,

Managed to work it out, though i'm not sure that it's the *correct* way.

Used ShellExecuteEx with the verb set to "properties" i.e.

   AnsiString sz = Edit1->Text;
   SHELLEXECUTEINFO execinfo;
   memset (&execinfo, 0, sizeof (execinfo));
   execinfo.cbSize       = sizeof (execinfo);
   execinfo.lpVerb       = "properties";
   execinfo.lpFile       = sz.c_str();
   execinfo.lpParameters = NULL;
   execinfo.fMask        = SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST;
   execinfo.nShow        = SW_SHOW;

   if (!ShellExecuteEx(&execinfo))
      ShowMessage("Error opening properties");

- seems to work ok.

Mike

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Re: Invoking Program Shell Properties dialog

#223

Author: Bob Gonder
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:48

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Mike Collins wrote:

>Managed to work it out, though i'm not sure that it's the *correct* way.

Looks ok by me.

When you decide to add a KidSafe tab to the properties dialog,
this link might come in handy...
http://www.omgili.com/newsgroups/microsoft/public/platformsdk/shell/edLyJtZ1IHA528TK2MSFTNGP02phxgbl.html

Re: Invoking Program Shell Properties dialog

#225

Author: Mike Collins
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:51

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LOL

Ahh Bob, great minds think alike.  I'd actually just thought of that this 
morning and add it to the wish list for version 2.

Many thanks for the link - it's really good.  Was looking at an article at 
codeproject but it used ALT and i didn't like that :-(

Cheers

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