Hi Steve, The shlwapi assembly has some useful stuff for manipulating paths that I once used in NUnit. Of course, I had to remove it in order to port. I just wondered if you felt it was within your scope, since it has "shell" in its name... btw, if you want to Pascal-Case the name, it would have to be ShLwApi, since it stands for the "shell lightweight api" :-) I personally have no knowoledge about what would be the right thing to do with this for linux developers, but its definitely the right group to ask. Charlie
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve K Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:02 AM To: Charlie Poole Cc: mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Windows Shell The ShlWapi stuff is only needed because IShellFolder.GetDisplayNameOf() returns a STRRET, ShlWapi.dll provides StrRetToBuf which makes translating this abomination to a standard string a little easier. Or am I missing the point? I am looking into the portland project for providing special folders on linux. Am I right in thinking that if portland is not present, we could just present the *nix filesystem as the shell namespace, rooted at / instead of Desktop? If there is the opinion from those higher up that this library might be useful, I would be happy to have a shot at implementing the *nix side of things. We still need early adopters to give feedback though. On 11/30/06, Charlie Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI Steve, Good point about porting. If I'm using the Shell api then I'd like my app to actually work on Mono, with graceful degradation when a particluar folder or item doesn't exist on the platform. And of course, I also see things on my desktop that look like they might be construed as analogues of the virtual folders that exist in Windows. Windows programmers would probably want them to work. Those coming from Linux may prefer some other API. Actually, when I first saw your post, my mind went immediately to Shell extensions, which seem to be pretty much Windows-only, unless you want to invent something equally arcane for Linux. :-) BTW, do you think of the shlwapi assembly stuff as part of this? Charlie
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