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Re: Overlays outside of Explorer

From: Jim Kueneman <webmaster_at_mustangpeak.net>
Date: 2007-03-06 03:46:58 CET

>
>> This not exactly a typical question. I have a set of Delphi
>> components for shell access. Up until Vista they worked perfectly
>> with Tortoise overlays. Now I can't get them to work. I have "Show
>> overlays only in Explorer" off (necessary pre Vista as well) and
>> still nothing. I also have a Delphi package for shell extensions so
>> I am familiar with that end of Explorer as well, though I have not
>> kept up with the new features of Vista in this regard.
>>
>> Unfortunately I am not very proficient in C so that is why I am
>> asking here.
>>
>> I created a little tool a while ago using my components to see what
>> interfaces and info is available from the shell. It may be possible
>> to use it as the target application to debug this.
>>
>> www.mustangpeak.net/download/namespacebrowser.zip
>
> I can't really help you here. A lot has changed on Vista, and I don't
> know how you call the API's to get the overlay icons.
> But maybe it has to do with the fact that Vista uses 256x256 icons in
> png format (compressed).

Thanks, I got it working. Something did change in Vista and I had to
call CoInitialize earlier then I was in previous versions.

Jim

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