I need to permit the users to drag an item from a ListView control of
my form onto the desktop/win explorer. However, I also need to do some
pre-processing and manually place the files into the location.
Basically, it seems all I need to do is determine the path where the
user has dragged the item onto. Can this be done easily?
With all the drag and drop samples I've found the task is opposite, so
I'm wondering if somebody could please help me out with a link or code
sample.

Thanks in advance

Hello Xlay,

Wang Ting has written sample code which enables dragging ListView items and
dropping in Explorer to generate files. The blog post can be found at
http://blog.joycode.com/felix/articles/38825.aspx .

Hope this helps.
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Best regards,

Stanimir Stoyanov
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"Xlay" wrote:

> I need to permit the users to drag an item from a ListView control of
> my form onto the desktop/win explorer. However, I also need to do some
> pre-processing and manually place the files into the location.
> Basically, it seems all I need to do is determine the path where the
> user has dragged the item onto. Can this be done easily?
> With all the drag and drop samples I've found the task is opposite, so
> I'm wondering if somebody could please help me out with a link or code
> sample.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

Thanks Stanimir, but the sample does not really solve my request to
determine the drop path and have my form code do the rest... Can this
be done easily or must one always retreat to using temporary files?

Stanimir Stoyanov wrote:
> Hello Xlay,
>
> Wang Ting has written sample code which enables dragging ListView items and
> dropping in Explorer to generate files. The blog post can be found at
> http://blog.joycode.com/felix/articles/38825.aspx .
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Stanimir Stoyanov
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
>
> "Xlay" wrote:
>
> > I need to permit the users to drag an item from a ListView control of
> > my form onto the desktop/win explorer. However, I also need to do some
> > pre-processing and manually place the files into the location.
> > Basically, it seems all I need to do is determine the path where the
> > user has dragged the item onto. Can this be done easily?
> > With all the drag and drop samples I've found the task is opposite, so
> > I'm wondering if somebody could please help me out with a link or code
> > sample.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >

"Xlay" wrote:

> Thanks Stanimir, but the sample does not really solve my request to
> determine the drop path and have my form code do the rest... Can this
> be done easily or must one always retreat to using temporary files?

Hello Xlay,

This is the only procedure that I know of, and other applications seem to
incorporate this. For instance, dragging files from WinRAR and dropping them
to Explorer extracts them to a temporary directory and then they are moved
using SHFileOperation.

I hope this helps.
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Best regards,

Stanimir Stoyanov
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