Interaction between shell32.ShellExecute,
IContextMenu and the ShellLink object?
Mike McCormack
mike at codeweavers.com
Fri Sep 23 03:10:53 CDT 2005
Hi All,
Currently the way that ShellExecute is implemented looks wrong.
Resolving shortcuts is done by calling SHELL_ResolveShortCutW (line 273
of dlls/shell32/shlexec.c) instead of invoking ShellLink object and
letting it resolve itself.
The question is, through which interface (or set of interfaces) does
shell32 invoke the Shelllink object?
From what I can determine, ShellExecute should use the .lnk extension
to look in the registry (HKCR\.lnk -> HKCR\lnkfile\CLSID) and get
CLSID_ShellLink. Using the CLSID, it calls CoCreateInstance, then
IShellExtInit->Initialize() which loads the .lnk file.
Unfortunately, the next step is unclear to me. I think that
IContextMenu->InvokeCommand is used, but I'm not sure as to how.
If anybody (Michael Jung?) knows how this works, please let me know, as
I'd like to make IShellLink work properly, complete MSI advertised
shortcuts and clean up ShellExecute...
thanks!
Mike
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