Drag Icon and get information

[programmer]

Hi!
I need to write a program that lets the user to drag icons from the desktop into the application. I then need to get information about this icon (i.e: if the icon is a shortcut then get the shortcut location, etc..).

Please help me out here,
I thank you so much guys,
Nahum.

[sebs]

This is the code for DragAndDropping on your form:

Private Sub Form_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
Data.Files (1)
End Sub

Data.Files(1) would be your icon, so from there :

if extension = .pif or .lnk it's a shortcut...

[programmer]

I mean, how can I retrieve the path of the icon file?

[programmer]

To be more specific, how can I retrieve the shortcut Target as it called in Windows?

Is this what you want?

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.OLEDropMode = 1
End Sub

Private Sub Form_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
If Data.GetFormat(vbCFFiles) Then MsgBox Data.Files(1)
End Sub

[programmer]

It is almost what i want..
now after i know the name of the LNK file, I want to retrieve the filename that the shortcut is linked to...


Please help....

'Author: Sam Huggill
'Author's email: http://www.programmerz.com/vb/
'Date Submitted: 2/6/1999
'Compatibility: VB 6,VB 5

'Task: Returns the .exe name from the given handle.

'Declarations
Public Const TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS As Long = 2&
Public Const MAX_PATH As Long = 260

Public Type PROCESSENTRY32
dwSize As Long
cntUsage As Long
th32ProcessID As Long
th32DefaultHeapID As Long
th32ModuleID As Long
cntThreads As Long
th32ParentProcessID As Long
pcPriClassBase As Long
dwflags As Long
szexeFile As String * MAX_PATH
End Type

Public Declare Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd
As Long, lpdwProcessId As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function CreateToolhelpSnapshot Lib "Kernel32" Alias
"CreateToolhelp32Snapshot" (ByVal lFlgas As Long, ByVal lProcessID As
Long) As Long

Public Declare Function ProcessFirst Lib "Kernel32" Alias "Process32First"
(ByVal hSnapshot As Long, uProcess As PROCESSENTRY32) As Long

Public Declare Function ProcessNext Lib "Kernel32" Alias "Process32Next"
(ByVal hSnapshot As Long, uProcess As PROCESSENTRY32) As Long

Public Declare Sub CloseHandle Lib "Kernel32" (ByVal hPass As Long)

Public Function GetExeFromHandle(hWnd As Long) As String
Dim threadID As Long, processID As Long, hSnapshot As Long
Dim uProcess As PROCESSENTRY32, rProcessFound As Long
Dim i As Integer, szExename As String
' Get ID for window thread
threadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hWnd, processID)
' Check if valid
If threadID = 0 Or processID = 0 Then Exit Function
' Create snapshot of current processes
hSnapshot = CreateToolhelpSnapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0&)
' Check if snapshot is valid
If hSnapshot = -1 Then Exit Function
'Initialize uProcess with correct size
uProcess.dwSize = Len(uProcess)
'Start looping through processes
rProcessFound = ProcessFirst(hSnapshot, uProcess)
Do While rProcessFound
If uProcess.th32ProcessID = processID Then
'Found it, now get name of exefile
i = InStr(1, uProcess.szexeFile, Chr(0))
If i > 0 Then szExename = Left$(uProcess.szexeFile, i - 1)
Exit Do
Else
'Wrong ID, so continue looping
rProcessFound = ProcessNext(hSnapshot, uProcess)
End If
Loop
Call CloseHandle(hSnapshot)
GetExeFromHandle = szExename
End Function

'Code:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox GetExeFromHandle(Me.hWnd)
End Sub

[programmer]

the code you sent is for running proccesses, I need a code for a static file that isn't running...