On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> Tim Golden wrote: > >> Tim Golden wrote: >> >>> It would probably help if you specified what "does not seem[s] to be >>> working" meant. But I assume that you mean: if you add a Title into >>> the Summary on a JPEG then it doesn't get picked up by the script. >>> What's happening here (I think) is that for media types -- images, >>> movies, etc. -- the [Summary] property sheet is overridden, probably >>> by Windows Media Player which will use the properties embedded in >>> the JPEG (EXIF) or WMV. This isn't Structured Storage as such and >>> so isn't extracted by the script I showed. >>> >>> If I get a chance, I'll look into this a bit further. >>> >> >> In principle, it ought to be possible to do this by >> querying the IID_IPropertySetStorage on the corresponding >> IID_IShellItem. But it doesn't look as though the pywin32 >> com stuff quite supports that yet. Could be wrong. Might >> be worth trying with comtypes; I'll have a look if I can. >> > > OK, more useful version now up; reads JPEGs, WMVs, etc. > Still more work to be done, reverse-engineering the FMTID > and property names, but at least it takes you further without > too much extra work. > > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-document-summary-info.html > > TJG > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > Hi Tim, Thanks for your help; I am able to get required properties from jpg files. -- Cheers, Vishwajeet http://www.singhvishwajeet.com
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