Using as "Default" file manger [Technical]
Posted: 2004 Jun 09, 15:57
Well, I tried setting x2 as my default filemanager, and it quickly became obvious that there are going to be some problems ....
1) apparently, x2 doesn't handle IDlists as specified in the explorer commandline: %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L
Bottom line: I can start xplorer2 on my "network connections" by issuing a command like: but none of the windows tools do that, so none of the special locations work (eg: right click the network neighborhood and choose "explore" or "open").
1) apparently, x2 doesn't handle IDlists as specified in the explorer commandline: %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L
2) It appears that x2 doesn't handle DDE messages either, since the alternative method of launching (which explorer uses) is using ddeexec.Jaykul wrote:the /idlist,%I lets explorer know that the %I is a pidl, which needs to be looked up to get the path, see MSDN documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... folder.asp. It's important to handle these as a default file manager (note that PowerDesk does) because, for instance, a right-click on the system tray gives an option to "Open Network Connections" which ONLY specifies the pidl
Bottom line: I can start xplorer2 on my "network connections" by issuing a command like:
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xplorer2_UC.exe ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}