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.
Sorry, this is not part of madShell. You'll have to extract the extension (SysUtils.ExtractFileExt) and check the registry yourself (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc). It's rather easy to do.
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.