HWND to IShellFolder

[JoDeGr8]

In my app i will install a keyboard hook. when the user presses a
special hotkey all the text files in the active folder will be
selected. Please tell me how to achieve it. I saw SelectItem in the
IShellFolder but that doesn't seems to work for me. Please advice.


Regards,
J

[domi]

Post by JoDeGr8
In my app i will install a keyboard hook. when the user presses a
special hotkey all the text files in the active folder will be
selected. Please tell me how to achieve it. I saw SelectItem in the
IShellFolder but that doesn't seems to work for me. Please advice.
Regards,

The official method (MS) and code (C++) has been given on Win32 group
(comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32)

[Tim Roberts]

Post by JoDeGr8
In my app i will install a keyboard hook. when the user presses a
special hotkey all the text files in the active folder will be
selected. Please tell me how to achieve it. I saw SelectItem in the
IShellFolder but that doesn't seems to work for me. Please advice.

The phrase "active folder" doesn't have any general meaning. If Notepad is
running, what are you going to select?

If you're only interested in Explorer, I believe you can do this with an
Explorer shell extension. Such an extension has access to some of the
internals and interfaces of the shell.