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

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Sun Apr 27 09:29:47 CEST 2008


> 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.

A few of the interfaces have been dropped - IColumn* comes to mind.  Michel
may have been referring to DDE, which I believe is documented as being
removed, and is probably also responsible for ShellExecute(Ex) working
differently on Vista than on XP - ie, I can't make the code at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179911 work under Vista - a new top-level
Explorer window is always created - which I suspect is the result of no DDE.
But sadly I can't find anyone else with that problem, nor an alternative
work around.  If anyone is keen, I could probably demonstrate this in one of
the existing shell demos.

Cheers,

Mark



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