QueryInfo COM DLL Project Wizard
By Toby Allen
Friday, January 11, 2002
Download my QueryInfo COM Dll project Wizard for Delphi 5.
Download my QueryInfo COM Dll project Wizard for Delphi 6.
This is a project wizard for Delphi 5 (and probably 4 for Delphi 6 please download correct file) which creates a COM dll that will allow you to provide Explorer with Queryinfo tips for your files. These are the "tool tips" that appear when you hover your mouse over a file in windows explorer in Windows 2000 or XP. Microsoft use facility this facility to show you the author, title etc of an office document.
Lots of people have written articles on how to do this yourself in Delphi, but I've managed to create a project wizard that does all the complicated code for you, and simply provides you with one method to implement, in which you can find out details of the file concerned, and return a tip to the user.
The zip file includes the compiled .bpl file for simple installation, and also all the source code, so if you dont like my indentation you can change it!
Please let me know if you find it useful.
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