Re: Changing summary information using DSOFile DLL [was RE: adding a title to a file on windows]

2005-03-14 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Jack D. wrote: I did some more research and found out that you *can* use perl to change the summaryinfo/extended properties: That's good except as near as I can tell that only works for structured storage files like those from M$ Apps (like Excel, Word, etc). 1) First you need to download

Changing summary information using DSOFile DLL [was RE: adding a title to a file on windows]

2005-03-12 Thread Jack D.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of $Bill Luebkert Sent: March 11, 2005 6:44 PM To: Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: adding a title to a file on windows Jack D. wrote: http://cpansearch.perl.org/~empi/

RE: adding a title to a file on windows

2005-03-11 Thread Jack D.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Earthlink-m_ryan Sent: March 10, 2005 1:26 PM To: Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com; Chris Wagner Subject: Re: adding a title to a file on windows Chris wrote: The file comments are

Re: adding a title to a file on windows

2005-03-11 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Jack D. wrote: http://cpansearch.perl.org/~empi/ I tried it but cannot seem to get a proper object? Anyways - all the API calls are there if you want to try and code it yourself. You might be better off going through all the dialogs - you likely could do it in a shorter timespan :-)

Re: adding a title to a file on windows

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wagner
The file comments are part of the file itself. Are u talking about saving off the long name somewhere for future reference? -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---= WTC 911 =-- ...ne cede males 0100 ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list

RE: adding a title to a file on windows

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Eisengrein
First you need a hard-and-fast rule for converting the names. In your example it would look like you want everything up to the last number in the second "word" (where words are delimited by "_"). Also, is it safe to assume they are all in the same directory? If that is the case, it could be

Re: adding a title to a file on windows

2005-03-10 Thread Earthlink-m_ryan
Chris wrote: The file comments are part of the file itself. Are u talking about saving off the long name somewhere for future reference? I guess I didn't explain very well. I would like to access the windows file browser functionality in order to add a title or comment to the properties of a

Re: adding a title to a file on windows

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Carothers
Wow- I never knew those properties even existed... It is possible there is some sort of a PIF file that's created when you create comments under the summary tab? KC On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:26:29 -0500, Earthlink-m_ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris wrote: The file comments are part of the