ShellBrowser.pas

TShellBrowser is a Delphi component, which allows easy browsing through the shell name space of Windows.

For every object it can show the explorercontext menu, the properties dialog, the correct icon, etc. So it is easy toadd typical Win95 functions to your application and you can build an explorerlike application with only a few lines of code.

Classes

	Name	Description
	EShellBrowserError	An exception type used for exceptions that occur when using the TShellBrowser class.
	TJamPathList	class to manage a set of unique paths.
	TJamSystemImageList	The TJamSystemImageList component provides the icons of the Windows shell in from of a Delphi ImageList descendant.
	TPidlHistory	Class to manage a set of paths, which have been visited. for internal use only.
	TShellBrowser	The ShellBrowser component is a non-visual component and allows you to browse to the shell name space of Windows, to query information about shell objects and to perform context menu operations. It is currently only available in the VCL version and is the base for all visual controls.
	TShellColumns	Specifies the FMTID/PID identifier of a column that can be displayed by the Details view - MSDN documentary of SHCOLUMNID.
	TWideStringBuilder	class to efficiently create a large PWideChar string.

Constants

Name	Description
JAM_COMPONENT_VERSION	The version number of the ShellBrowser controls.

Enumerations

	Name	Description
	TJamCopyMode	possible values for the Code parameter
	TJamImageListSize	An enum type for th different sizes of the system image list.
	TJamShellOperation	Operations that may occur

Functions

	Name	Description
	ApplyExplorerFont	This is function ApplyExplorerFont.
	ApplyExplorerStyle	This is function ApplyExplorerStyle.
	ApplyExplorerStyle	This is function ApplyExplorerStyle.
	CompareFilenames	This is function CompareFilenames.
	EnableAutoComplete	Allows you to turn on auto complete features of Windows 2000 or IE5 for TEdit fields.
	EnableAutoComplete	This is function EnableAutoComplete.
	FileOrFolderExists	This is function FileOrFolderExists.
	FormatByteSize	This is function FormatByteSize.
	GetDataObjectForMultiFiles	This function returns an IDataObject for multiple files in different folders
	GetFilenamesFromClipboard	This is function GetFilenamesFromClipboard.
	GetFilenamesFromDataObject	Tries to extract file names from an IDataObject.
	GetFileSize	Returns the file size as Int64 for the given path; -1 if the size could not be determined.
	GetFileSize64	Returns the file size as Int64 for the given TWin32FindData record..
	GetFirstIDListFromDataObject	This is function GetFirstIDListFromDataObject.
	GetFriendlyName	Reformats a path especiall regarding lower case and upper case letters to how it would appear in windows Explorer.
	GetIDListFromDataObject	Retruns a list of object names for a given IDataObject.
	GetLinkTarget	For a given shell link (.LNK file), this function returns the full path of the target of this link. If the given file is not a link file, or the target could not be retrieved, an empty string is returned.
	GetOwningWindowHandle	This function returns a window hanlde that can be used for passing it to Windows API functions
	GetPathFromPidl	Deprecated. Use IItemIdList instead. This functions returns the file system path for a given PItemIdList.
	GetPathFromSpecialFolder	Use this function to get the path of a special folder (TJamShellFolder).
	GetRelativePIDL	Deprecated. Use IItemIdList instead.
	GetUserProfilePath	Use this function to get the path of the personal documents.
	HasFileExtension	Checks whether the given fullpath or filename has the given extension.
	IsAbsolutePath	This is function IsAbsolutePath.
	IsDomain	This is function IsDomain.
	IsDrive	Returns true if the path is a drive.
	IsDriveReady	This is function IsDriveReady.
	IsEqualShellColumnId	This is function IsEqualShellColumnId.
	IsFolderToIgnore	This is function IsFolderToIgnore.
	IsLocalPath	This is function IsLocalPath.
	IsNetworkPath	Returns True if the given path is a network path; False otherwise.
	IsNetworkPidl	Deprecated. Use TJamItemIdList.IsNetworkPidl() instead.
	IsSubPathOf	Returns true if possible sub path is a sub path of the superior path.
	IsUNCPath	This is function IsUNCPath.
	IsWOW64	Returns true if the current process is running as WOW64 process on a 64Bit system, False in all other cases
	JAMExpandEnvironmentStrings	Replaces environment variables delimited by "%" characters in a string with the variable's value.
	JamForceDirectories	Ensure that all directories in the given path exist.
	JamGetDiskFreeSpace	Queries the free and total disk space for the given path.
	JamGetWindowsPath	Use this function to get the path of the Windows folder.
	SamePath	Returns True if the given paths are identical; False otherwise.
	StartsWith	This is function StartsWith.
	TestForSpecialFolder	Deprecated. Use IItemIdList instead.

Types

Name	Description
TJamPathListOperation	Event used in TJamPathList class.
TJamShellOperations	A set of operations of the TJamShellOperation enumeration. operation or because the user has pasted them.
TOnBeforeShellCommand	This is type TOnBeforeShellCommand.
TOnBeforeShellDropEvent	user Drop-Event, which is used in TJamShellTree, TJamShellList and TJamFileList
TOnContextMenuSelectEvent	This is type TOnContextMenuSelectEvent.
TOnOperation	This is type TOnOperation.
TOnThumbnailUnavailable	This is type TOnThumbnailUnavailable.
TOnThumbnailUpdated	This is type TOnThumbnailUpdated.

Variables

Name	Description
Desktop	This variable gives access to the IShellFolder interface of the (virtual) desktop folder.
GlobalSystemImageList	Global and shared instance of the System image list, not every control needs its own instance.
IsVistaOrLater	true if the current operating system is Windows Vista or later
IsWindows7OrLater	true if the current operating system is Windows 7 or later
IsXPorLater	true if the current operating system is Windows XP or later
TurnOffWOW64FileSystemRedirection	If set to true, then the WOW64 file system redirection will be turned off for some operations related to file/directory paths

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