Copy Path function in listbox

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-09-09, 10:59 UTC

VadiMGP wrote:Why it is impossible? I didn't find any restriction not in Platform SDK help nor in MSDN KB. Anyway, for all files always exist base folder - Desktop. Moreover, look at standard Explorer behaviour: after search it is possible to copy any number of files from search result window even when files located on different disks.

Can you give me an example on how to do this programmatically? I would -love- to add this!

The problem is that the IShellFolder interface expects relative id-lists to that directory for the Context menu or for Drag&drop...

Peter Meier · Post by *Peter Meier » 2003-09-17, 18:13 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:It's impossible to copy more than one file/path in the search result, because the context menu functions only work with files in a certain base directory, not from multiple dirs.

I always use exactly one base directory to search from. So wouldn't it make sense to enable the context menu in this case? Please

JohnFredC · Post by *JohnFredC » 2003-09-18, 00:23 UTC

Perhaps I have misunderstood the issue, but the SpeedCommander Find utility appears to offer the function requested in this thread...

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-09-18, 00:47 UTC

JohnFredC wrote:Perhaps I have misunderstood the issue, but the SpeedCommander Find utility appears to offer the function requested in this thread...

I used the search utility and couldn't show properties for more than one file if the found files are located on different drive roots. Adding them to a file container couldn't solve the problem.

JohnFredC · Post by *JohnFredC » 2003-09-18, 13:11 UTC

I did misunderstand. Sorry!

VadiMGP · Post by *VadiMGP » 2003-09-18, 13:27 UTC

2JohnFredC
Yes, SpeedCommander does exactly what i asked about - copy files to clipboard.

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-09-18, 13:53 UTC

2VadiMGP

well there have been many requests here in this thread. Indead SC is able to copy the found files to clipboard.
I thought JohnFredC talked about the properties window...
too many misunterstandings...

You wrote you didn't find any restriction in the MSDN. Did you find a solution?

Peter Meier · Post by *Peter Meier » 2003-10-12, 19:22 UTC

Peter Meier wrote:
ghisler(Author) wrote:It's impossible to copy more than one file/path in the search result, because the context menu functions only work with files in a certain base directory, not from multiple dirs.
I always use exactly one base directory to search from. So wouldn't it make sense to enable the context menu in this case? Please

Well, what happened?
Dear Mr. Ghisler do you intend to change the feature?
I'd love to see that. Would it help if I say I'm a registered user?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-10-13, 20:24 UTC

Copy to clipboard will work in TC 6.0 at least for all files on the same drive. There are still some problems with files from different drives, though...

Peter Meier · Post by *Peter Meier » 2003-10-14, 18:48 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Copy to clipboard will work in TC 6.0 at least for all files on the same drive. There are still some problems with files from different drives, though...

Great! Thanx a lot!

vicray · Post by *vicray » 2003-10-15, 10:43 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:It's impossible to copy more than one file/path in the search result

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but, once the results of an Alt+F7 search are in the "Search results" window (and before feeding them to listbox), pressing Ctlrl+C copies all the full paths of the found files to clipboard, even if they are located in different drives.

What is not possible is to be selective. You can only copy all the paths, not just some of them.

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Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-10-15, 11:27 UTC

2vicray

it's about the search result shown in the listbox after you pressed "feed to listbox".
The thread isn't about coping the paths as text instead it's about coping the files themselves to clipboard.