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Finally i found the answer :

        I can read the properties that i seacrh with IPropertyStorage object

Thanks for all

"Steve Moss" <nospam@coco.dot.co.dot.uk> escribi� en el mensaje
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Marc:

The person who started this thread asked how to get hold of specific
information from a file, thus:

>> I need the function or procedure to obtain the advanced properties of a
>> file, like file title, author, comments, keywords, ....

This information - whatever you decide to label it - is available via
standard APIs, as I described. You wrote ...

>> Windows files per se don't have these things - you mght be talking
>> about the document properties of e.g. an Excel sheet, or a Word
>> document. THose are NOT properties of the file - they're metadata
>> stored inside the file.

>> Thus, there are no standardized Windows file function calls that can
>> get you this information.

.. which is wrong and misleading. Whether you decide to call this
information "metadata", "file attributes" or whatever is beside the point
(and in any case there is established terminology and definitions for the
kind of information mentioned) - the information asked for is available via
standardised Windows APIs. So I saw the need to correct your erroneous
implication that the requester would need to treat files as special cases.

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Regards,
Steve Moss,
CoCo Systems Ltd.

Win2K Pro + SP3, Delphi 6.02