Re: SetShellWindow

Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> I've been playing with SetShellWindow, and since it sounds like some of
> you guys out there are working on figuring out how explorer works you
> might be able to help out.  ;)
> 
> Basically, as you are well aware I'm sure, if you SetShellWindow(hwnd),
> Explorer refuses to start.  I was able to get around this with setting the
> 'BrowseNewProcess' and 'DesktopProcess', in that explorer.exe would start
> as a file manager.  The problem that still exists is that New/Open dialogs
> still do not refresh when a new file/directory is created.  I don't
> suppose anyone has any ideas?

I hope you don't use SetShellWindow just because you want to use 
explorer as your file manager - there are better ways than that. The 
only true advantage that I know of so far are automatic shell restarts 
(though I assume there must be much more to it).

You want to use Spy++ on your shell window. When I played around with it 
I received messages (WM_USER+something) every time a new item was 
created - but I failed to figure out how to handle them or how to 
interpret the parameters.

ilmcuts

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