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Getting extended file information
Is there a way that I can read the comments off of a file using VB? What I want to do is get the file, read the name of the file and if there are any comments in the file's properties.
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This is what I am trying to do. I have a directory in which I have several Autocad Drawing files. I'm trying to create an html link to them. I want to automate the process so that the program gets the file name as the link and then adds a description of the file after the link. If you right click on the file in the file explorer and select properties you get an option of adding comments under the summary tab. I want to know how I can access the comments using vb6.
this is just an idea, i've no tried it cause i got no Autocad here but if i'm correct Autocad does VBA? Not that it's needed but you can download a little smaple doing it for Office documents comments etc....
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q224351
and just maybe you can use it on Autocad also
else we've to dig deeper...
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q224351
and just maybe you can use it on Autocad also
else we've to dig deeper...
:O)Bruintje
and i should use my spellchecker more often
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This is what I am trying to do. I have a directory in which I have several Autocad Drawing files. I'm trying to create an html link to them. I want to automate the process so that the program gets the file name as the link and then adds a description of the file after the link. If you right click on the file in the file explorer and select properties you get an option of adding comments under the summary tab. I want to know how I can access the comments using vb6.
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Those components did the job. Thanks.
Glad i could help and thanks for the grade
What kind of file properties are you looking for and from what kind of file?
this sample is for time etc... but i'm not sure if that's what you're looking for
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q154821
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