Wondering if its possible to create Windows Shell Extensions using pywin32 and if so, has anyone has tried to create a QueryInfo type Windows Shell Extension?
I would like to create a Python equivalent of the simple InfoTip described in this well written tutorial. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/shellextguide3.aspx Here's a quick excerpt from this article: Quote: The Active Desktop shell introduced a new feature: tooltips that show a description of certain objects if you hover the mouse over them. For example, hovering over My Documents shows this tooltip: [My Computer tooltip - 6K] Other objects like My Computer and Control Panel have similar tooltips. These bits of text are called infotips, since they are tooltips that provide information about the file, folder, or object that the mouse is over. We can provide our own infotip text for other objects in the shell, using an infotip extension. An example of an infotip extension that you have probably already seen is in WinZip, which shows the contents of compressed files: [WinZip tooltip - 5K] This article's sample extension will be a quick text file viewer - it will display the first line of the file, along with the total file size. This information will appear in an infotip when the user hovers the mouse over a .TXT file. Extracting the info I want to display in an InfoTIp is easy :) ... its the plumbing to support the display of information that has me stuck. Thank you, Malcolm
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