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"delayed" came with Delphi 2010.

In XE2 (Winapi.ShlObj) SHGetKnownFolderIDList is declared as "delayed", so it should be no problem on older OS.

I found the bug (may I add, the code of this function is horrible). The problem is after all the splitting of the path. It fails on the last part. The Path consts of two parts, but it doesn't stop after that and fails in the third iteration and exists the function. Before (function PathToIDList(path...

I found a solution thanks to this post (Delphi XE2): uses Winapi, Winapi.KnownFolders; var PIDL: PItemIDList; Assert(Windows7); SHGetKnownFolderIDList(FOLDERID_PicturesLibrary, 0, 0, PIDL); try ... finally ILFree(PIDL); end; Documentation can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb...

This hasn't anything to do with Developer Express (assuming it's a valid PIDL this component returns). If I shorten the path to the first part (only "Libraries") it works, but the combined path doesn't work. It's the function "PathToIDList" which doesn't work as expected. It seem...

Hi, I can get the ShellObj for "My Pictures"-Folder with that call: madShell.ShellObj(sfMyPictures) Since Windows 7 introduced shell "libraries" and there is the default library called "pictures" I'd like to reference that. There is no predefined TSpecialFolder for that...

Hi, I have a problem converting a path to IShellObj. The Path is '::{031E4825-7B94-4DC3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\::{A5A3563A-5755-4A6F-854E-AFA3230B199F}'. It points to "Libraries \ Pictures". This GUID-Representation is generated by IShellObj, but cannot be resolved from string back to an IShel...

Hi, I'm trying to find out where an exception occurs. It raises shutting down the application. I know it comes from a background thread. So the exception dialog only shows up shortly. With the help from this post http://forum.madshi.net/viewtopic.php?t=3754 I was able to freeze the main thread and r...