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

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Tue Apr 22 19:07:13 CEST 2008


Michel Claveau wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since Vista, Windows-Explorer and Internet-Explorer are separate. 
> Previously it was possible to drive Windows-Explorer via COM.
> Vista made that impossible.

They have ALWAYS been separate.  No shared code.  The only thing they 
had in common was one word in the name.


> IMO, you must seek another way that COM. Sorry.

What leads you to say this?  Do you have a reference?  Windows Explorer 
in Vista has been substantially modified, but I have not read of any 
breaking changes in the shell interface.  There are too many third-party 
tools that rely on it.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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