How to add preview for my own filetype in Windows XP explorer?
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Hi, when I have videofiles or JPEG-pictures displayed in "Large Icon" mode in XP explorer, I get a detailed preview for each single file, showing its content. I'd like to have the same for my own custom filetype that my application uses. I have already googled, but keep failing to get the right keyword to use how I can do that myself, using VC++ and MFC. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks alot!
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Hi, when I have videofiles or JPEG-pictures displayed in "Large Icon" mode in XP explorer, I get a detailed preview for each single file, showing its content. I'd like to have the same for my own custom filetype that my application uses. I have already googled, but keep failing to get the right keyword to use how I can do that myself, using VC++ and MFC. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks alot!
it is somethink with Shell, it will be really annoying and awksame. I have read (here) that it got chnaged between XP and Vista/7. look here and search preview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774328(VS.85).aspx[^] Remember: it is a minefield and YOU WILL GET BLOWED (that the truth) Please write an article about your project in teh summer of 2010 :cool:
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Hi, when I have videofiles or JPEG-pictures displayed in "Large Icon" mode in XP explorer, I get a detailed preview for each single file, showing its content. I'd like to have the same for my own custom filetype that my application uses. I have already googled, but keep failing to get the right keyword to use how I can do that myself, using VC++ and MFC. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks alot!
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it is somethink with Shell, it will be really annoying and awksame. I have read (here) that it got chnaged between XP and Vista/7. look here and search preview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774328(VS.85).aspx[^] Remember: it is a minefield and YOU WILL GET BLOWED (that the truth) Please write an article about your project in teh summer of 2010 :cool:
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
Hi, thanks alot, but I think that's not what I really need, I want a thumbnail preview in explorer that Windows XP already offers for variuos filetypes, for example JPEG pictures: when I set the view to icons or tiles in explorer, I see a real preview of the image inside. My application is some sort of a CAD program with its own filetype, and I would like to render preview thumbnails the same way. How is it done in explorer? How can I make it work the same way as for JPEGs in XP and Vista?
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Hi, thanks alot, but I think that's not what I really need, I want a thumbnail preview in explorer that Windows XP already offers for variuos filetypes, for example JPEG pictures: when I set the view to icons or tiles in explorer, I see a real preview of the image inside. My application is some sort of a CAD program with its own filetype, and I would like to render preview thumbnails the same way. How is it done in explorer? How can I make it work the same way as for JPEGs in XP and Vista?
i stronglc recommand you to dig deeply in the Shell and IE programming of the famous Michael Dunn: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=152[^] I know less than that.
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