simulating Explorer Cut/Copy/Paste of files

Hello all,

I am writing a program that simulates a shell window. I am trying to get it to do some simple copy and paste stuff form the clip board so that, in theory, you could select a bunch of files in explorer, use CTRL+C (or whatever) to copy them, and then paste them into the folder that my custom shell viewer points to.

EDIT: I figured out how to grab the files form the clipboard. Is there a way to figure out if the user initiated a Cut or a Copy command?

EDIT: Also, If this is not possible, would forcfully sending a PASTE command to explorer get around the problem of querying for Cut or Copy? How would one send a paste command to Explorer if the target window is not open??

Here is some more Info:

I am not writing a shell extension, rather a separate program that querys for the explorer context menu. I am able to get the shell folder of the directory I want ot query. I use an IShellFolder to represent the folder. When I use it to get the desktop, I have the option of getting the IShellFolder of C:\Documents And Settings\Mastadex\Desktop or the Virtual folder that represents the desktop.

Both of these menus are completely different. One has a "New" submenu on it and the other doesn't. The second menu has a properties menu item that launches the display settings, the first one doesn't.

Is there an easy way of merging the two menus so that I can get both "New" and the properties menu item that launches the Display Settings.

Here is how I am getting at the menu as if I was trying to get :

Code:

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HMENU getMenu(IShellFolder *sh)
{
  LPCONTEXTMENU icm1 = NULL, contextMenu = NULL;
  HMENU menu = NULL;

  shellFolder->CreateViewObject(NULL, IID_IContextMenu,(void**) &icm1);

  if (icm1)
  {
    icm1->QueryInterface(IID_IContextMenu3, contextMenu);
    contextMenu->QueryContextMenu(menu, 0, 1, 10000, CMF_NORMAL | CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS | CMF_EXPLORE);

    return menu;
  }
  return NULL;
}

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Basically, the above approach gives me a menu that has the "New" submenu in it. If I hange the CreateViewObject() function call into the bottom example, it will NOT give me the "New" submenu, rather everything else (Paste, Paste Shotcut, Properties that launch the display settings) that I would assume you would get as if right clicked on the desktop.

Code:

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HMENU getMenu(IShellFolder *sh, LPITEMIDLIST *pidlArray, int numPidls)

{
  LPCONTEXTMENU icm1 = NULL, contextMenu = NULL;
  HMENU menu = NULL;

  shellFolder->GetUIObjectOf(NULL, numItems, (LPCITEMIDLIST *) pidlArray, IID_IContextMenu, NULL,(void**) &icm1);

  if (icm1)
  {
    icm1->QueryInterface(IID_IContextMenu3, ppContextMenu);
    contextMenu->QueryContextMenu(menu, 0, 1, 10000, CMF_NORMAL | CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS | CMF_EXPLORE);

    return menu;
  }
  return NULL;
}

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Is there a way to merge the two LPCONTEXTMENU structures so that I can get all the options form both menus in one menu. I tried manually moving each item in the HMENU structures into one HMENU, but the funcitonallity of the menu (when invoked) did not do anything.

I am basing my menu off of this example:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/...ntextmenu.aspx