Lightweight wrapper round certain win32 shell functionality
Project description
Certain aspects of the Windows user interface are grouped by Microsoft as Shell functions. These include the Desktop, shortcut icons, special folders (such as My Documents) and a few other things.
These are mostly available via the shell module of the win32all extensions, but whenever I need to use them, I’ve forgotten the various constants and so on.
Several of the shell items have two variants: personal and common, or User and All Users. These refer to systems with profiles in use: anything from NT upwards, and 9x with Profiles turned on. Where relevant, the Personal/User version refers to that owned by the logged-on user and visible only to that user; the Common/All Users version refers to that maintained by an Administrator and visible to all users of the system.
There are other generally useful functions which are grouped under the heading of shell-related, for example moving & copying files with animated progress icons and deleting them into the system recycle bin.
