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I want to build a software.
This software will just get the path of currently selected file.
Suppose I click a file on my desktop.
Now I want to get the path of this file.
So whenever a new selection is made just get the path of newly selected file.
Any ideas?
The windows Desktop window is a ListView Control like in the end (at least it was in Windows XP…) so if you need to know selected item of a ListView you basically need to get the handle of the desktop and check what has been selected.
Not sure about windows Vista and 7 bit I guess it’s not too different, as David has commented, if you want this for every single explorer window could be more difficult but should still be possible, have a look here for a start:
How do I get the window handle of the desktop?