I am wrestling with my life right now, but I'll post more hopefully by
tomorrow.
Also, I am trying to write my own 'Cheat Engine' or just a memory scanner
in general,
I am just looking for simple values such as a int or a double.
Thanks for reponding!
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote:
> Josh Clayton wrote:
> >
> > I've been reading the documentation and had a question.
> >
> > How would I create a custom tag in the details tab of a file then set
> > it, and read it?
> >
> > If creating it is not possible, would it then be possible just set an
> > already existing tag and then read it? My end goal is to try and
> > metatag a large group of files to avoid having to open them to read
> > them. I'd rather just use a script to blast through 10,000 files and
> > understand what files are in my folder structure.
>
> The answer is quite complicated.
>
> The Details tab in Explorer is exposing whatever metadata the underlying
> file format supports. If you look at a JPG, for example, the JPG format
> has the ability to add "tags". If you change the tag list while you're
> looking at that tab, Windows modifies the file to add that to the tag
> list in the JPG file. Similar, a Word document supports metadata like
> "DocTitle" and "Author", and Explorer understand the Word file format
> and how to modify it. There is no generic "hidden store" for these
> properties.
>
> You can get access to these properties using the Shell object model.
> Theoretically, this should do it, but this returned "None" for all of
> the properties I tried. I wish you luck. If Tim Golden is listening,
> he may have a better idea.
>
> Note that the Shell.NameSpace API is one of the very few places in
> Windows where the path MUST be specified with backslashes. It will not
> accept forward slashes.
>
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> shell = Dispatch("Shell.Application")
> y = shell.NameSpace(r"c:\tmp\pvt")
> print( y.Title )
> for z in y.Items():
> print( z.Path )
> print( z.ExtendedProperty("Author"),
> z.ExtendedProperty("Date"),
> z.ExtendedProperty("Tags"))
>
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