Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

I am having problems with creating shortcuts to files/folders suing
Drag & Drop (shift  ctl) for files within my NSE to regular windows
explorer. I am also not seeing the ‘Create Shortcuts Here’ menu item
when the drag is done using the right mouse button.

Within my own NSE, I don’t have a problem with the Drag & Drop (shift
 ctl) since my implementation of IDragTarget supports
DROPEFFECT_LINK. What would I need to do to get this functionality to
work when I Drag & Drop files from my NSE into regular explorer?

I did try to implement the IDragSource interface, but I don’t seem to
be getting called to initialize it.

date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:43:35 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Gee Weez

Re: Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

Gee Weez wrote:
> I am having problems with creating shortcuts to files/folders suing
> Drag & Drop (shift  ctl) for files within my NSE to regular windows
> explorer. I am also not seeing the ‘Create Shortcuts Here’ menu item
> when the drag is done using the right mouse button.

Make sure that your items have the SFGAO_CANLINK attribute.

-- 
Jim Barry, Microsoft MVP

date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:45:07 +0100   author:   Jim Barry

Re: Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

The SFGAO_CANLINK attribute is set; and that does enable the 'Create
Shortcut' menu in the File menu for files; however I am still not
seeing the ‘Create Shortcuts Here’ menu item when the drag is done
using the right mouse button.

Additionally, the 'Create Shortcut' in the File menu is still disabled
for folders!

- GW

date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:40:01 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Gee Weez

Re: Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

On Aug 12, 11:40 am, Gee Weez  wrote:
> The SFGAO_CANLINK attribute is set; and that does enable the 'Create
> Shortcut' menu in the File menu for files; however I am still not
> seeing the ‘Create Shortcuts Here’ menu item when the drag is done
> using the right mouse button.
>
> Additionally, the 'Create Shortcut' in the File menu is still disabled
> for folders!
>
> - GW

I should clarify, the 'Create Shortcut' in the File menu is disabled
for folders when I click on the 'File' menu for a folder from the
Folders View (i.e. LHS of explorer).

date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:21:21 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Gee Weez

Re: Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

Gee Weez wrote:
> The SFGAO_CANLINK attribute is set; and that does enable the 'Create
> Shortcut' menu in the File menu for files; however I am still not
> seeing the ‘Create Shortcuts Here’ menu item when the drag is done
> using the right mouse button.

Do you provide the CFSTR_SHELLIDLIST format?

-- 
Jim Barry, Microsoft MVP

date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:37:53 +0100   author:   Jim Barry

Re: Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

Gee Weez wrote:
> I should clarify, the 'Create Shortcut' in the File menu is disabled
> for folders when I click on the 'File' menu for a folder from the
> Folders View (i.e. LHS of explorer).

But that's also the case for standard filesystem folders, right?

-- 
Jim Barry, Microsoft MVP

date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:38:19 +0100   author:   Jim Barry

Re: Problem with Drag & Drop (Shortcut) from my NSE to windows explorer.   

Thanks, that worked!

date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:33:16 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Gee Weez