Questions tagged [preview-handler]
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Finding preview handler GUIDs for image types (gif, bmp, jpg, etc)
If you use windows explorer and click on an item like a .docx or a .jpg file you get a preview of the item you clicked on within the explorer like this. I'm trying to replicate this within my windows form application and it works fine for .docx and…
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How to Properly Use and Instantiate existing Preview Handlers
I am trying to use existing preview handlers to display previews of files.
I wrote a simple test program to 1) find the CLSID of the preview handler for a given file, 2) instantiate the preview handler, 3) initialize it, either by stream or file and…
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Windows preview handlers don't respect drawing area set with SetRect
I've been trying to use Windows preview handlers in my application and noticed that some of the preview handlers do not respect the drawing rectangle set with SetRect(&rect).
For example, with the Edge PDF preview handler (CLSID…
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How to disable preview handler for a given file path
I am writing an applications in C# and thought to working with PreviewHandler for Windows. I have just started to work with Windows Explorer and Preview Handler so don't know what to do and where to start. Frankly don't have any idea how does it…
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what is the actual meaning of parsing a html file?
I am not able to understand what actually parsing the html means ?
As i understand -
- it means that suppose we have any html file by parsing we can have the contents of the html file and we can edit them using parsing. Am i right ?? (parsing…
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Some methods not working in ATL based Windows Explorer Preview Handler
I am writing a Windows Explorer Preview Handler in ATL (no MFC). Its works fine except for the following problems which I believe are related to insufficient privileges:
A CDialogImpl based dialog (Resource based) does not show up after a call to…
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Preview handler only works when application is invoked from Explorer
I made a simple application that creates a window and then uses preview handlers to display a preview of a file passed as an argument to the application, see code below.
This works perfectly fine when just drag'n'dropping the file to preview onto…
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