Get the path of opened directories

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Solution 1

http://www.cplusplus.com/[]

Posted 7-Nov-11 20:54pm

epanjohura

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lilyNaz 8-Nov-11 4:52am

Well tnx for the link but I didn't find what I was looking for...

epanjohura 8-Nov-11 4:53am

you're welcome :)

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Andrew Brock · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-07T23:26:00

Solution 2

Depending on what you are wanting to do, a shell extension[^] may be the best thing. This will integrate your code directly into Windows Explorer, and allow you to do things such as add a toolbar or a column to the file view.

If you just want to know what they are looking at, without changing the Windows Explorer experience, then this would not be a good way.

This may or may not be the best way, but check out my answer[^] to a similar question a few days ago. Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer are very similar in a lot of respects, this code will find the URL of all Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer windows. If the URL starts with file:// then it is a Windows Explorer window.

As I said, there may be a better way, but since no one has answered yet, I thought I'd give you this.

Posted 7-Nov-11 23:26pm

Andrew Brock

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lilyNaz 8-Nov-11 6:13am

I'll check out your answer.Thank you Andrew

Andrew Brock 8-Nov-11 6:17am

I forgot to mention that the names are in a valid internet format. This means that a space for example is represented as "%20" (the ascii code for a space is 32, which in hexadecimal is 0x20, hence %20). Some other characters are also in this format, you need to search for the % character and replace the next 2 characters which make up the hexadecimal code for the character with the character. Let me know if you need help with it.

lilyNaz 8-Nov-11 6:39am

I need to write the code in Embarcadero c++ builder, and I get errors regarding these two lines:
#import MSHTML.TLB
#import SHDOCVW.DLL
Where should I add these two?

Andrew Brock 8-Nov-11 6:56am

Sorry, they are only supported by Visual Studio. It generates header files from the .tlb and .dll files. These headers then depend on the Windows SDK, and I am not familiar with Embarcadero, but since it is cross platform I suspect it does not support these headers (because that would no longer be cross platform).

You may just have to wait for someone else to make a suggestion.

lilyNaz 9-Nov-11 2:46am

Do you think that I could use EnumDesktopWindows in order to find the address of all opened windows which may be directories?
I know it doesn't consider all the different ways of opening a directory but Is it possible?

Andrew Brock 9-Nov-11 3:46am

This is technically possible, but could be a bit difficult to implement. Since you don't have Visual Studio, and hence don't have spy++ I have put an annotated screenshot at http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/718/spyu.png/
Your code would have to find all windows with the class "CabinetWClass returned from the EnumDesktopWindows() function, and then follow all of the red arrows correctly to get the file path.
This was taken from Windows 7, I imagine Vista will be the same, but XP will be different, and this is where the issues arise. You will need to detect the OS and work from there.

lilyNaz 13-Nov-11 3:19am

It worked out, Thanks Andrew.