Main reason is drag & drop doesn't work from Windows Explorer to an elevated app.
Ross. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jeremy North Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2010 3:03 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] UAC control Why not just include an administrator manifest and have you application run with administrator privileges all the time. On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Ross Levis <r...@stationplaylist.com> wrote: > Relaunching is not really an option, as it could be playing a media file at > the time a user could ask for a specific change which requires elevated > access. > > What I may need to do is write all the code into my elevated app and use > command-line parameters to execute the code and send the required info. And > use ExitCode to return whether it was successful or not. That may do the > trick. > > Ross. > > -----Original Message----- > From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On > Behalf Of Paul Heinz > Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2010 2:03 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] UAC control > > Hi Ross > >> I'm back to this subject again. > > I'm not sure if anyone has already indicated this discussion: > > The trick of launching yourself again as elevated with a command line > parameter seems pretty straightforward if you're not comfortable with > writing COM servers. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/923350/delphi-prompt-for-uac-elevatio > n-when-needed > > Cheers, > Paul. > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
