[python-win32] Finding the selected file in Windows Explorer

[Larry Bates]

Daniel Gonçalves wrote:
> Larry Bates wrote:
>> Daniel Gonçalves wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I need to find the selected file(s) in a Windows Explorer window from
>>> another program (I'd look at the window that last had focus). 
> 
> <snip!>
> 
>> Daniel,
>>
>> What do you mean by "find the selected files".  Give us a little more
>> detail about your use case and we can help.
>>
> 
> Hi!
> 
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to have a program that detects whenever some 
> file(s) are dragged over an area of the screen. Not dropped there, but 
> dragged over it (close to the screen border, for instance). AFAIK, 
> Windows only generates events whenever something is dropped, which will 
> be useless here.
> 
> I will be using hooks to monitor mouse events and, when the mouse is 
> over the defined region, I need to find out what is being dragged. A way 
> to do estimate this might be to know that the currently focused window 
> is an Explorer window, and query it for the selected items (they will be 
> the ones being dragged). This is only an approximation but might be 
> enough for my ends, if no better way is found.
> 
> Of course, if there is a way of just asking the OS "what is being 
> dragged right now", that would work even better :)
> 
> 
> 
> Tks!
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
>> One way of knowing about files that are selected is this:
>>
>> If you selected several files and drag and drop them on a python 
>> program the files that are selected will be passed into the program in 
>> sys.argv.  I don't know if that is what you are looking for or not.
>>
>> -Larry
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The reason for this is that a user can "changed their mind" before the drop.  I 
sometimes do that and press escape to cancel the operation.  wxWindows has some 
several functions that occur while the dragging is taking place and I "think" 
you can actually tell what is being dragged during the process.

-Larry