windows shell function

[rolfk]

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battler. wrote:

Thanks Mike.

I need the bigger picture though. 

Reading that and other threads it would seem that LabVIEW does not directly support the calling of the shell32.dll functions.  Correct?

Are there any examples that you know of?

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Mike is correct you can call it directly.Even the two last parameters, but if you want to use event types that will need ITEMIDLISTS you will have to do a lot more reading and learning about programming the Windows shell API. And I'm sure you can learn that

MSDN is in general the best information you can get about these things, but it is huge, much worse structured than the worst LabVIEW manual and last but not least not always complete and sometimes simply wrong. So trial and error it will get a lot of times anyhow.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[battler.]

Thanks.