Are there some functions lurking within your RB plug-ins to read and write the extended properties found on some Windows files?
I.e., on Windows, some files (Office documents, for example) have extra metadata attached to them that a user can view and edit by opening up the file’s properties dialog and clicking the details tab. Some of these properties – e.g., there’s a “tags” property and a “Categories” property – can be used in Windows search functions, to filter Windows libraries, etc., so they’re, um, useful, especially for document management systems. If there's some way of reading and/or writing such metadata, please clue me in. If there's not, pleeeease think about adding it. (I googled around a bit, and this appears to be relevant: IPropertyStorage Interface http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379968%28v=vs.85%29.aspx IPropertySetStorage Interface http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379840%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Managing Properties http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380050%28v=VS.85%29.aspx IPropertySetStorage-NTFS File System Implementation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379964%28v=VS.85%29.aspx I’m sure there’s an equivalent on Mac, probably Spotlight-related (which probably makes reading the properties easy, though not sure about writing them), but I’m mainly interested in Windows at the moment.) _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list [email protected] https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
