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M109uk
04-10-2004, 02:08 PM
Hi all,

Does anyone know how to write a thumbnail plugin for Explorer, (When you look in a folder with Windows with IE5+, you can see previews of BMP, JPEG, etc) i want to create a preview of my own files, but i cant find anything about it on the net :(

Any ideas?

Thanx

cairnswm
05-10-2004, 06:49 AM
The explorer add ins are called Shell Extensions and you are looking for the Thumbnail Image Handler extension.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpshellshock/

Encapsulates a number of the Shell Extensions - I could not find the Thumbnail handler but it could be there somewhere.

M109uk
05-10-2004, 12:38 PM
Thanks, il have a look later when i have the time :roll:

Specis
22-02-2005, 10:01 AM
you need to look at the IExtractImage interface from the MSDN :)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/ifaces/iextractimage/iextractimage.asp