[DUG] API to Windows explorer

[Jolyon Smith]

You mean this article ?:

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx



Mark Russinovitch says in that very article:

  "The changes apply both to Explorer copies as well as 
   to ones initiated by applications using the CopyFileEx API"


So just call CopyFileEx()... no need to try to hook into Windows Explorer.

(Is there a "let me read that article for you" equivalent to "Let me google
that for you" ?)

;)



 

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 13:35
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer

Now back to the original question - is there an API to Windows Explorer to 
copy files?


(
I have a nice component HAHFindFile to build the list of folders and files 
in a stringlist, and a routine using TFilestream to do the copy, but I was 
thinking its almost certainly going to be faster and more robust if there 
were an API to Windows Explorer to pass the source and destination folders 
to, and some parameters (eg copy only newer).

I read technical articles from Mark Russinovitch about how Vista and Windows

7 optimise copying files over a network, varying the block sizes etc and 
using caching so I would expect an OS-level API to be much faster.

Does anyone know if such an API exists, and are there options to eg copy 
only later files.  I saw some hints in Google about a COM interface to 
Windows Explorer, but no details if it has options like I am interested in.)



John 

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