Controling DirectUIHWND aka Win7 Explorer

[dexto]

Hi,

Win XP had explorer file list in SysListView32 so it supported commands like:

ControlListView($hwnd, "", "SysListView321", "GetItemCount")
$item = ControlListView($hwnd, "", "SysListView321", "GetText", $index, 0)
$nin = ControlListView($hwnd, '', "SysListView321", "FindItem", $item, 0)

Is there analog way to handle DirectUIHWND? Any documentation, structure or API on DirectUIHWND used by explorer?

Thank you for any input.

[exodius]

The description of DirectUI here is not encouraging as far as you finding a way to get at that control with the standard control functions.

The DirectUI doesnt make use of the native Win32 controls except some complicated control such as edit, listctrl. Instead, It draws controls and widgets on the parent window dc. It uses xml to lay out the controls of dialog, and uses script(vbscript, jscript, lua) to provide flow control and object manipulation features that are not available in xml.

[exodius]

I don't know if this is truly related, but it looks like it could be at least a cousin to the topic at hand.

[dexto]

The description of DirectUI here is not encouraging as far as you finding a way to get at that control with the standard control functions.

Thank you,

I guess it will be easier to create SysListView32 and fill it with files (create a mini explorer).

[dexto]

I don't know if this is truly related, but it looks like it could be at least a cousin to the topic at hand.

Interesting... i'm looking into it right now.

[dexto]

Some more info to investigate:

http://forums.purebasic.com/english/viewtopic.php?t=14636&highlight=dui