Have a look at IShellLink.
ShellLink := CreateComObject(CLSID_ShellLink) as IShellLink;
PersistFile := ShellLink as IPersistFile;
OleCheck(PersistFile.Load(PWideChar('MyLink.lnk'), STGM_READ));
You can then get all the information about the link including path.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nello Sestini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 August 2000 9:31
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: dereferencing shortcuts
Does anyone have a straightforward way of
dereferencing a "desktop shortcut"? I mean
those ".lnk" files that point to other files
or folders.
Put another way - given a shortcut foo.lnk
that points to some file bar.txt I'd like
a way to get the fully qualified path
for bar.txt.
Everything I've seen so far seems unbelievably
complicated.
thanks
ns
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