help needed to get desktop selected/highlighted shortcut

[sumon2002]

i want to get the information and icon of shortcut of desktop by selecting with mouse. i get the list view of desktop shortcut and also i can get the selected index number of shortcut. i am using VC++6.0 and windows 2000 professional. "what i want is to get the icon image and icon name and shortcut link file name". the following code i am using. Mouse hooking is not needed. HWND hWnd = ::FindWindow("Progman", NULL); if (NULL != hWnd) hWnd = FindWindowEx(hWnd, NULL, "SHELLDLL_DefView", NULL); if (NULL != hWnd) hWnd = FindWindowEx(hWnd, NULL, "SysListView32", NULL); if (NULL != hWnd) { UINT count = ListView_GetSelectedCount( hWnd ); INT mark = ListView_GetSelectionMark( hWnd ); int nItem = ListView_GetItemCount( hWnd ); ... ... ... }

[David Crow]

Ok, so is your code working? If not, what errors are you getting (e.g., compiler, linker, runtime)? Is the value of count, mark, and nItem correct? Have you considered SHGetFolderPath() with either CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY or CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY? With the path, you can then use FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() to "find" each file in the folder. Then you can use ExtractIcon() to get the icon used by the file. I've not tried this specifically, so your mileage may vary.

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