Display File Properties [Solved]

[DrDonut]

Hi all,

For my application, I would like to be able to display the file properties in the standard Windows dialogs that you see when you do right click->properties on a file.

Now it seens that there are some ways to do that, but so far I have found none that actually seem to work when using standard c++ or qt insteas of Visual c++.

I tried to use CPropertyPage from microsoft itself (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y9a2ksw2.aspx) but that gives a huge amount of compiler errors, due to not-existing files, and declarations that do not seem to name a type.

So my question is, does anyone have a simple, working example of how to do this?

Info:
QT: 4.4.3
Platform Windows XP SP2

[mcosta]

Use QFileInfo class

[DrDonut]

Wow Thanks, I'll have to take a look at that to get my code to be platform-independant.

In the mean time I fixed it with some windows-only code:

SHELLEXECUTEINFO ShellExecuteInfo;
 
        ShellExecuteInfo.cbSize = sizeof(ShellExecuteInfo);
        ShellExecuteInfo.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS | SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST | SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI;
        ShellExecuteInfo.hwnd = widget->winId();
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpVerb = prop;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpFile = WFileName;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpParameters = NULL;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpDirectory = NULL;
        ShellExecuteInfo.nShow = 0;
        ShellExecuteInfo.hInstApp = 0;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpIDList = 0;
 
        return ShellExecuteEx(&ShellExecuteInfo);

SHELLEXECUTEINFO ShellExecuteInfo;

        ShellExecuteInfo.cbSize = sizeof(ShellExecuteInfo);
        ShellExecuteInfo.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS | SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST | SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI;
        ShellExecuteInfo.hwnd = widget->winId();
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpVerb = prop;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpFile = WFileName;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpParameters = NULL;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpDirectory = NULL;
        ShellExecuteInfo.nShow = 0;
        ShellExecuteInfo.hInstApp = 0;
        ShellExecuteInfo.lpIDList = 0;

        return ShellExecuteEx(&ShellExecuteInfo);

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But I will take a look at the QFileInfo class, thanks!

[faldzip]

the CPropertyPage (as every class in windows starting from "C" at the beginning) is a part of MFC - so I assume that you didn't set up your project to compile and link with MFC headers/libraries and that caused so many errors