File attributes of a shortcut

[Manfred Staiger]

Does anybody know by chance how to change the file attributes of a shortcut in a folder? CFile::Get/SetStatus and GetFileAttributes/SetFileAttributes don't work. Thanks in advance

MS

[David Crow]

Manfred Staiger wrote:

CFile::Get/SetStatus and GetFileAttributes/SetFileAttributes don't work.

Why not? What are they (not) doing? This works fine for a shortcut that is on my desktop:

void main( void )
{
char szFile[] = "...\\Desktop\\Survivor.url";
SetFileAttributes(szFile, GetFileAttributes(szFile) | FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY);
}

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[Manfred Staiger]

It works! I didn't respect that the windows explorer hides the file extension .lnk even if you haven't checked the "hide file extensions" property. So I simply passed the incomplete filename to SetFileAttributes. Anyway, thank you for responding.

MS