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Martin
PostPosted: March 5th, 2005, 4:35 pm 
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How can I use AHK to view and edit file comments that are displayed in the Window file properties dialogue box?

I use Windows fax and I want to set the comment to "Printed dd/mm/yy" when I have printed a file.

Many thanks,
Martin


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PostPosted: March 5th, 2005, 5:00 pm 
Yes. I would be interested in getting a file properties read/write option as well. :D


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PostPosted: March 5th, 2005, 8:13 pm 
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Hi,

the comments are only available at NTFS and are stored in the ADS. You can access these data-streams by FILENAME.EXT:streamname. To access the comment-stream try this: FILENAME.EXT:SummaryInformation
The Box is ASCII 005. Because the Informations are binary it's not possible to have access to them within AutoHotkey by FileRead.

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PostPosted: March 6th, 2005, 2:06 pm 
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Thanks for the info.

This feature was previously requested and is on the to-do list as "New command FileGet/Set or FileGetProperties to retrieve and set things from a file's property sheet (title, author, permissions, etc.)" See also: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1229

If anyone knows the basics of how to implement this, please let me know since I haven't researched it yet.

Related info from the past:
Tekl wrote:
It would be also nice to get the access-rights and the file-owner.

Savage wrote:
For viewing and changing file permissions, look at this - ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ResKit/win2000/xcacls.zip -- Command line viewing and changing of file access control lists. Looks pretty easy to use.


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PostPosted: March 8th, 2005, 7:48 am 
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Tekl wrote:
Hi,

You can access these data-streams by FILENAME.EXT:streamname. To access the comment-stream try this: FILENAME.EXT:SummaryInformation
Tekl

How do you use this?

I have tried :
Code:
clipboard = F:\Temp\Temp2.txt:SummaryInformation
MsgBox, 0, , %clipboard%

but this does not work.

I have found an easy way of accessing the comment field in Xplorer2 by using the ALT+Z key combination and I am setting up AHK to automate the printing and commenting of the printed files.
Many thanks,
Martin


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Hi Martin,

remember, in front of SummaryInformation there must be the ASCII-Char 005. Without this Char you'll access a different in most cases non existent Stream. But even then you'll have no success because AHK stops reading the stream if the first zero-byte (ASC 000) occurs, so you won't see anything.

BTW, you can create your own Streams by:

Notepad F:\Temp\Temp2.txt:NewStream.txt

and with this code you have Access (your code was wrong):

Code:
fileread, clipboard, C:\Temp\Temp2.txt:NewStream.txt
MsgBox, 0, , %clipboard%


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2008, 8:24 am 
Anyone has provided/found a solution already eg. with a DllCall() ?


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FileRead is capable of reading binary data from files, as it reads the entire file at once. It should work just as well with alternate streams.


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