I hooked the CopyItems
method of IFileOperation
to monitor/intercept file copy in windows.
My problem is how can i retrieve the full file name from IShellItem
(last param of CopyItems)
function New_CopyItems(p: Pointer; punkItems: IUnknown;psiDestinationFolder: IShellItem): HResult; stdcall;
The psiDestinationFolder
have a method called GetDisplayName
that return only the folder name of current file was begin copied!! But i want to get full file name and don't know what i should to do !? There is any other method to help me getting full name ?? Or i have to using another API ....?
Excuse me if my English is bad!
The CopyItems
method copies potentially multiple items. So right off the bat you are mistaken looking for a single file name. This is a very complex API and you do need to read the documentation carefully and understand clearly how the function works.
The psiDestinationFolder
parameter is an IShellItem
that identifies the destination. Use the GetDisplayName
method to get the file path.
The other parameter, punkItems
is more complex. It is documented like this:
Pointer to the IUnknown of the IShellItemArray, IDataObject, or IEnumShellItems object which represents the group of items to be copied. You can also point to an IPersistIDList object to represent a single item, effectively accomplishing the same function as IFileOperation::CopyItem.
This is telling you that there could be an IShellItemArray
, IDataObject
, IEnumShellItems
or a IPersistIDList
object behind the IUnknown
interface that you receive. And that there could be multiple items in that single object, each one to be copied to the destination folder. You will need to query punkItems
for each possible interface in turn until you find out which of these possibilities you have to deal with. And then handle each one with special code. In order to test this you'll need to write code that calls CopyItems
with each of the possible interfaces. You'll find out how to do all of this from the documentation of each of the four interfaces. If you don't already know shell programming and COM well, expect to do so by the time you complete this work.
Finally, I doubt that this is a very good way to detect file copying. Files are copied using many different APIs. And IFileOperation.CopyItems
is but one of them. If you only hook IFileOperation.CopyItems
then you'll miss a lot of file copy operations.