Can I Get The Path Based On Cursor Position

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Is there any way can i get the path based on cursor position, what i mean suppose i open 3 folders like D:\vijay\temp, c:\system\data, E:\data\directory, if i move the cursor from my application to any of these folders, can i get the directory path?, based on cursor position. My application is desktop application (win32/MFC(Doc/View architecture)).

Posted 11-Jan-16 23:18pm

Vijay533

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 12-Jan-16 5:23am

You should investigate mouse capturing...

Jochen Arndt 12-Jan-16 5:33am

Do you want to check if there is some kind of text containing a path below the mouse cursor?

If so, you should explain what you finally want to achieve because there might be a better way (e.g. Drag & Drop). Otherwise you have to capture the area below the mouse as bitmap image and feed that to some kind of CR (Character Recognition).

Vijay533 12-Jan-16 5:47am

For drag and drop only i need it. Because in drag&drop we already have some implementation, i don't want to disturb that, so i am searching for some alternatives.

Jochen Arndt 12-Jan-16 6:01am

Please use the Reply button on top of a comment like I have done yet. Then an email notification is send. I saw your new comment now by re-visiting.

You should be more specific. A Drag & Drop operation can't be disturbed.

Just add drop support to your application (or specific windows of your application) and you will get the path (assuming you are dragging a path from the Explorer).

You even don't need to perform the final drop. When handling the DragEnter notification you can peek into the drag object to get the path.

Leo Chapiro 12-Jan-16 6:08am

Looks like a valid answer, I think?

Jochen Arndt 12-Jan-16 6:29am

Not really to the initial question.
But it will be a solution if he follows my advice.

Vijay533 12-Jan-16 6:39am

Actually i need the path of the outside folders while dropping the files from with in the application to outside, not from the outside to my application.

Jochen Arndt 12-Jan-16 7:00am

This is an important information that should be added to the question (you can use the green 'Improve question' link).

I will try to summarise:
You are dragging files from your application to folders shown within the Windows Explorer and you want to determine on which folder a drop occurred.

I don't have a solution for this.

It is at least possible to detect if the file has been dropped on the recycle bin folder. In this case the Explorer creates a CFSTR_TARGETCLSID object that contains the CLSID of the recycle bin.

You may check if such an object is also created for other folders. I expect it at least for system folders. The MSDN documentation is not clear about this (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776902%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#CFSTR_TARGETCLSID).

[UPDATE]
From the above MSDN link:
"Normally, a drop source has no way of knowing which folder its data object has been dropped on."

So it won't work for other folders than the Recycle Bin.
[/UPDATE]

Vijay533 28-Jan-16 1:23am

Sorry for late reply Jochen Arndt, thank's for your comment.

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2016-01-12T02:12:00

Solution 1

Looks like you have a similar question as I answered here.

What have coded so far?

Posted 12-Jan-16 2:12am

KarstenK