Accessing Property Sheets

Accessing Property Sheets

[George]

I keep running up against situations where I require access to the 
property sheet for a folder/file to perform a settings change I can't 
accomplish otherwise. 

I'm wondering whether Cygwin offers some way I've not yet discovered to 
display the property sheet dialog for a folder/file.  Seems it would 
save the trouble of opening an explorer window from bash, selecting a 
file, opening the context menu by right clicking and then selecting 
properties (before navigating the various tabs and clicking some more).

Thanks.




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Re: Accessing Property Sheets

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, George wrote:

> I keep running up against situations where I require access to the
> property sheet for a folder/file to perform a settings change I can't
> accomplish otherwise.

Exactly which properties are you trying to change?  Some of the security
ones can be changed via setfacl, as well as chmod/chown (I don't think
either one supports setting inheritable permissions, though).

> I'm wondering whether Cygwin offers some way I've not yet discovered to
> display the property sheet dialog for a folder/file.  Seems it would
> save the trouble of opening an explorer window from bash, selecting a
> file, opening the context menu by right clicking and then selecting
> properties (before navigating the various tabs and clicking some more).

Not really Cygwin-specific, but look up the Shell API on MSDN [*] (which
you can invoke via rundll/rundll32), in particular, the SHObjectProperties
function.

To put this back on-topic, if you do manage to find a way to do what you
want that works on all OS's, please consider making a cygstart-like
utility to do this and contributing it to the Cygwin distribution.

HTH,
	Igor
[*] One of the possible pointers is
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/functions.asp>
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Re: Accessing Property Sheets

[George]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, George wrote:
>
>
>>I keep running up against situations where I require access to the
>>property sheet for a folder/file to perform a settings change I can't
>>accomplish otherwise.
>>
>
>Exactly which properties are you trying to change?  Some of the security
>ones can be changed via setfacl, as well as chmod/chown (I don't think
>either one supports setting inheritable permissions, though).
>
Setting inheritable permissions was one, but some of the folder/virtual 
folder property sheets do have settings other than permissions-related 
ones.  Also, it can sometimes be a useful (albeit back-asswords) double 
check to ensure an action performed on the command-line had the desired 
effect (sort of like using cat on a *nix system to review the contents 
of a config file after using a GUI tool to perform changes.

What inspired my question was two simple shell scripts I recently wrote 
to provide a menu-driven interface to the .cpl applets and .msc 
snap-ins.  I found the approach infinitely easier and faster to use than 
opening explorer windows, or labouring over messy changes to the 
registry on the command-line.

>
>>I'm wondering whether Cygwin offers some way I've not yet discovered to
>>display the property sheet dialog for a folder/file.  Seems it would
>>save the trouble of opening an explorer window from bash, selecting a
>>file, opening the context menu by right clicking and then selecting
>>properties (before navigating the various tabs and clicking some more).
>>
>
>Not really Cygwin-specific, but look up the Shell API on MSDN [*] (which
>you can invoke via rundll/rundll32), in particular, the SHObjectProperties
>function.
>
I did stumble across 'cygstart --reference'.  A thoughtful addition.

>
>To put this back on-topic, if you do manage to find a way to do what you
>want that works on all OS's, please consider making a cygstart-like
>utility to do this and contributing it to the Cygwin distribution.
>

Gladly.  Send me a few books on C programming and I'll get right on it. 
:-) Seriously, it looks trivial enough but I didn't know I could invoke 
those functions using rundll32 so maybe that'll take care of my 
immediate needs.  I'd like to think it would useful to others so maybe I 
will consider your suggestion and buy those books myself and see what 
comes of it.

Cheers.


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RE: Accessing Property Sheets

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:31 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, George wrote:
> 
>> I keep running up against situations where I require access to the
>> property sheet for a folder/file to perform a settings change I can't
>> accomplish otherwise.
> 
> Exactly which properties are you trying to change?  Some of the
> security ones can be changed via setfacl, as well as chmod/chown (I
> don't think either one supports setting inheritable permissions,
> though). 
> 
>> I'm wondering whether Cygwin offers some way I've not yet discovered
>> to display the property sheet dialog for a folder/file.  Seems it
>> would save the trouble of opening an explorer window from bash,
>> selecting a file, opening the context menu by right clicking and
>> then selecting properties (before navigating the various tabs and
>> clicking some more). 
> 
> Not really Cygwin-specific, but look up the Shell API on MSDN [*]
> (which you can invoke via rundll/rundll32), in particular, the
> SHObjectProperties function.
> 
> To put this back on-topic, if you do manage to find a way to do what
> you want that works on all OS's, please consider making a
> cygstart-like utility to do this and contributing it to the Cygwin
> distribution. 
> 
> HTH,
> 	Igor
> [*] One of the possible pointers is
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/functions.asp>
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> doing whatever you think is worth doing."  -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw

I have a perl script that I use from a Windows command prompt that does this.

It uses Digest::MD5, Win32::File, Win32::File::VersionInfo, and Win32::FileTime to get as much information as possible.

It won't run under a cygwin prompt because I don't have all of those Win32 modules available, but if you are interested, I can send it to you.

Here is a sample of the output:
C:\Tools\Code\projects\file-version>perl file-version-edit.pl \tools\sysinternals\pslist.exe

File: \tools\sysinternals\pslist.exe
Your file seems to exist.
Win32::File::GetAttrubutes("\tools\sysinternals\pslist.exe",$fattr) -> 32
$finfo = Win32::File::VersionInfo::GetFileVersionInfo("\tools\sysinternals\pslist.exe") -> HASH(0x183f094)
$ftime = Win32::FileTime->new("\tools\sysinternals\pslist.exe") -> Win32::FileTime=HASH(0x18353cc)
File Version: 1.26.0.0
Product Version: 1.26.0.0
OS: NT/Win32
Type: Application
Date: 0000000000000000
Language: English (United States)
Comments:
CompanyName: Sysinternals
FileDescription: Sysinternals PsList
FileVersion: 1.26
InternalName: pslist
Copyright: Copyright ⌐ 2000-2004 Mark Russinovich
Trademarks:
OriginalFilename: pslist.exe
ProductName: Sysinternals pslist
ProductVersion: 1.26
PrivateBuild:
SpecialBuild:
File Attributes: archive
Created : 2004/05/31 14:25:04
Accessed : 2004/07/29 10:20:03
Modified : 2004/05/31 14:25:04
MD5 Checksum: 28ad0aaa0190120c65484d8e079daa62

C:\Tools\Code\projects\file-version>

-Jason

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