I want to get the system icon of a specified folder, but maybe the only way to retrieve the icon is to use SHGetFileInfo() method. The first parameter of SHGetFileInfo() method is a pointer of LPITEMIDLIST. If I only have the absolute path of the folder, how can I get the pointer according to the path? Thank you very much! ...
I'd like to persist pidls between sessions, so that my application can remember the users' folder selections, wherever they may be in the namespace, even if they're not file-system folders. I have a feeling that the way to do this is to write out the binary contents of the ITEMIDLIST itself, but I can't confirm this for sure, since thes...
Solution Found, See Below Hi, I have a situation where I want to perform special processing on some Windows shell special folders (those corresponding to values in the CSIDL enum.) (My solution must be WinXP compatible.) The problem I'm having is that when I encounter IShellFolders as I work my way down the heirarchy, I cannot find a...