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Dear madshi,

Anything works perfectly now. I also tested it on Windows 98 and XP. Correct icons and texts. I suppose you will make a regular release of madCollection next time.

So thanks for the good (and fast) work!

Claus.

Thanks for the tip. But indeed, the email did not came through my spam filter... May be filtered out by my provider. So my apologize for the inconveniences. But good news: Anything works perfectly now. I also tested it on Windows 98 and XP. Correct icons and texts. I suppose you will make a regular ...

Oh, thanks,

I'll download it today evening. I'm very happy you might fixed it!!!

Kind regards,

Claus.

Dear madshi,

no problem. I can extract the file type very easy using SHGetFileInfo (with the additional flag SHGFI_TYPENAME. I asked because it *could* have been already implemented in ShellObj, even if I did not see it.

Kind regards,

Claus.

Hi,

does anybody know how to get the file type information, e.g. "Word Document" for *.doc files from a ShellObj(<path of file>) object? I studied the nice help, but did not yet found it.

Kind regards,

Claus.

Dear madshi, indeed, for some of the control panel applications and -folders I get an icon by ShellObj. Most of the apps who have no GUID, have no icon, e.g. "Eingabehilfen" (don't ask me for the english word :D ) or "Mouses" etc. have no icon. The ShellControls from the Delphi &...

Dear madshi, To be honest, I'm not sure whether they all really have their own GUID in the shell object system. Since asking the GUID of some of those items works fine, it seems to me that it's probable that the items without a GUID really have no GUID. Yes, indeed. You are completely right! Only th...

Dear madshi, while browsing through the system folders using ShellObj's items, I found that most of control panel's subitems do not have a valid GUID (the ::{...} description), which is necessary for some things I want to do. They always result in the (correct) description. Example: While running th...

Here's my workaround to the GetSize(16) bug, which uses the ShellAPI unit and calculates the correct icons for all programs, folders, system folders etc. Also, Desktop gets it correct icon that way. :D :D But I still do not know for sure that this method works properly on all operating systems, but ...

Hello again! I also tried a shrinking routine using a bitmap to shrink the icon from always 32x32 to 16x16, but very often this doesn't look like very nice... procedure TForm1.TreeView1AdvancedCustomDrawItem(Sender: TCustomTreeView; Node: TTreeNode; State: TCustomDrawState; Stage: TCustomDrawStage; ...

If you want to see the wrong size effect, simply run my example Treeview program - you only need a VCL form and a Treeview-object on it and associate the object methods...

Hi madshi, :D For example, DOC, XLS or MDB files, lying on my desktop, have 32x32 icons. Folders are okay. But PDF files, INI files, etc. have wrong icon. Seems to be anything that is a registered file. On the other hand, EXE files are okay; also - when I use GetIcon(32), all icons are coming okay w...

Hi! I don't know for sure, but I have a problem with the icon size for some shell objects. They appear to be 32x32 even if I use GetIcon(16). Folders and some special objects work perfectly. Here is my updated TreeView listing which now works pretty much like Explorer, but it shows also the files. I...

Hi! :D You are very fast in replying. Well, indeed, ShellObj frees the memory pretty much like using temporary strings. That's fascinating! All I have to do is to put anything I want to do with the ShellObj structure within the WITH context. Outside the with structure the object is already freed. Al...

By the way: when I use the structure with ShellObj('c:\whatever.txt') do ... the madshell Unit allocates a new Shell object for performing the action with the shell item 'c:\whatever.txt'. Is the structure correctly dis-allocated when a procedure / the application ends or Do I have to dis-allocate s...