[Tutor] Getting file properties on winodws

[Tim Golden]

Tim Golden wrote:
> Tim Golden wrote:
>> It would probably help if you specified what "does not seem[s] to be
>> working" meant. But I assume that you mean: if you add a Title into
>> the Summary on a JPEG then it doesn't get picked up by the script.
>> What's happening here (I think) is that for media types -- images,
>> movies, etc. -- the [Summary] property sheet is overridden, probably
>> by Windows Media Player which will use the properties embedded in
>> the JPEG (EXIF) or WMV. This isn't Structured Storage as such and
>> so isn't extracted by the script I showed.
>>
>> If I get a chance, I'll look into this a bit further.
> 
> In principle, it ought to be possible to do this by
> querying the IID_IPropertySetStorage on the corresponding
> IID_IShellItem. But it doesn't look as though the pywin32
> com stuff quite supports that yet. Could be wrong. Might
> be worth trying with comtypes; I'll have a look if I can.

OK, more useful version now up; reads JPEGs, WMVs, etc.
Still more work to be done, reverse-engineering the FMTID
and property names, but at least it takes you further without
too much extra work.

  http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-document-summary-info.html

TJG