Retrieve Icons Associated To An Extension?

Will McGugan news at NOwillmcguganSPAM.com
Tue Mar 29 10:40:26 EST 2005


andrea.gavana at agip.it wrote:
> Hello NG,
> 
>       I have searched everyweher, and I am not able to find a solution...
> basically, I am constructing a GUI with wxPython, in which I have a list.
> In this list control, I have some file. I would like to associate (to every
> file) its icon (on Windows). I have searched about the use of Mark
> Hammond's win32all extensions and also ctypes, but I didn't find a
> solution. Could anyone please provide a very simple example on how to
> retrieve an icon associated to a file extension on Windows?

Check out MimeTypesManager in the wxPython demo app (under More 
Windows/Controls). That seems to do what you want..

Will McGugan



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