Contains information about a file object.

Syntax

typedef struct _SHFILEINFO {
    HICON hIcon;
    int iIcon;
    DWORD dwAttributes;
    TCHAR szDisplayName[MAX_PATH];
    TCHAR szTypeName[80];
} SHFILEINFO;

Members

hIcon

A handle to the icon that represents the file. You are responsible for destroying this handle with DestroyIcon when you no longer need it.

iIcon

The index of the icon image within the system image list.

dwAttributes

An array of values that indicates the attributes of the file object. For information about these values, see the IShellFolder::GetAttributesOf method.

szDisplayName

A string that contains the name of the file as it appears in the Microsoft Windows Shell, or the path and file name of the file that contains the icon representing the file.

szTypeName

A string that describes the type of file.

Remarks

This structure is used with the SHGetFileInfo function.

Structure Information

Header	shellapi.h
Minimum operating systems	Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95