"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Andrea Gavana wrote: >> Hi Roger, >> >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Roger Upole wrote: >>> I've been meaning to look at how this works for some time, >>> so I took a few minutes to cook up an example (attached). >> >> Thank you very much for the sample! It is really enlighting. I have >> however some difficulty to understand it (sorry for the dumb >> questions): > > (I think Roger's in a different timezone, so I'll answer what > I can for the purposes of expediency. He can obviously speak > for himself when he's online).
Sometimes I think I'm in an entirely different universe ;). > You really want to look at: > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776858(VS.85).aspx?topic=306117 > > for the inside story. > >> 1) How do you actually use the SIOI class? > > As a class, you don't. It's simply the mechanism for serving the > COM object which contains the methods the shell will be calling > back. This is often a difficult concept for people new to shell extensions. > There's some magic which the UseCommandLine call does > on your behalf to register the class as the COM server which the > shell expects. > >> I tried to run the sample, >> then creating various files here and there in my hard drive, but I >> don't really know what IsMemberOf() is accepting as fname to make the >> overlay. Is it the file name? The icon name? Something else? > > Find an icon file that exists, unless you happen to have something > on your J: drive which exactly matches Roger's example. I used the > TortoiseSVN icons on my machine under: > > c:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\icons\Classic\TortoiseAdded.ico > > Replace the path in GetOverlayInfo with whatever you've chosen. > This is the icon which will be overlaid (in miniature) over whatever > existing icon a file has. > > Have the IsMemberOf method return S_OK for every file whose icon > you want overlaid. The first param is the filename. Roger's example simply > looks for the world "overlay" in the filename. I was actually testing the overlay on the script that produces the overlay. (it seemed like a good idea at the time ...) >> 2) Let's suppose that I want to assign an overlayed icon to a >> particular file in a directory: let's say this file is called >> "HELLO.DATA" and the directory contains also other files with the >> .DATA extension. What should I do to assign the overlayed icon only to >> this particular file? > > Change the .IsMemberOf function to say something like: > > if os.path.basename (fname) == "HELLO.DATA": > return winerror.S_OK > return winerror.E_FAIL > > Hope that helps > > TJG Also, you'll probably need to log off and log back on for changes to the class to take effect. Roger _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
