Determine if a folder is clicked/selected in windows Explorer

[dee-u]

I wish to be able to detect if a 'secured' folder is selected/clicked so that I can ask for a password to 'open' the folder, can anyone give me a hint on where or what to look for?

Been trying to google but I am not finding anything useful in my case.

TIA

[westconn1]

you can loop through all the open shell windows and return the locationurl, which would be in the format of
file:///C:/test
change the foldername to suit, probably use ucase or lcase to match strings

i assume you would need to do this in a timer
i am not sure if the correct locationurl would be returned for a folder that the user can not open

[MartinLiss]

Does this help at all?

[Spoo]

Dee-u

I'm a little confused by your chain of events.
Correct me where I went wrong..

1. Your VB6 app is running
2. You then go to Windows Explorer and click on a folder
3. You want your app to detect which folder was just clicked and prevent
   it from manually being opened if the folder is 'secured' (in which case you
   would ask for a password)

Spoo

[gibra]

I wish to be able to detect if a 'secured' folder is selected/clicked so that I can ask for a password to 'open' the folder, can anyone give me a hint on where or what to look for?

You can implement a Shell notify (subclassing is need), see this project:

http://btmtz.mvps.org/shnotify/

[dee-u]

You can implement a Shell notify (subclassing is need), see this project:

http://btmtz.mvps.org/shnotify/

That is cool but I cannot find what event is raised when we selected a folder in Windows Explorer.

EDIT:
Upon removing a user's access to a folder and when we try to click on that folder the following dialogbox (attached) is shown, perhaps there is a way to trap for its showing, cancel it and show my own form instead?

[westconn1]

Upon removing a user's access to a folder and when we try to click on that folder the following dialogbox (attached) is shown, perhaps there is a way to trap for its showing, cancel it and show my own form instead?

while that dialog is showing the readystate for that shell window remains at readystate_loading, don't know if that is any help?