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Using Win32Lib's geFileInfo to show system icon

• Posted by Jonas Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> Jan 25, 2006
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All,

I'm trying to use Win32Lib's getFileInfo() function to display the small icon
for a given file.  The trick here is the file is not on the PC.  According to
MSDN, if I use SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL then this
should give me the icon index even if the file doesn't exist.  Here's a code
snippet:

file_info = getFileInfo(trim(dir_data[i][2]),
   FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
   or_all({SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES,
           SHGFI_SYSICONINDEX,
           SHGFI_SMALLICON}))

Then this should return the handle/index of the small icon.  Once I have that,
how do I use addTVItem() to display this icon?  I can't seem to put these
together in my mind and was hoping someone has already done this.

Thanks!

Jonas Temple
http://www.yhti.net/~jktemple