tim golden cggctimgoldenmeuk andrea gavana wrote hi roger tue apr 15 2008 1221 roger upole wrote ive meaning look works time took minutes cook example attached thank much sample really enlighting however difficulty understand sorry dumb questions think rogers different timezone ill answer purposes expediency obviously speak hes online really want look httpmsdn2microsoftcomenuslibrarybb776858vs85aspxtopic306117 inside story 1 actually use sioi class class dont simply mechanism serving com object contains methods shell calling back theres magic usecommandline call behalf register class com server shell expects tried run sample creating various files hard drive dont really know ismemberof accepting fname make overlay file name icon name something else find icon file exists unless happen something j drive exactly matches rogers example used tortoisesvn icons machine cprogram filestortoisesvniconsclassictortoiseaddedico replace path getoverlayinfo whatever youve chosen icon overlaid miniature whatever existing icon file ismemberof method return s_ok every file whose icon want overlaid first param filename rogers example simply looks world overlay filename 2 lets suppose want assign overlayed icon particular file directory lets say file called hellodata directory contains also files data extension assign overlayed icon particular file change ismemberof function say something like ospathbasename fname hellodata return winerrors_ok return winerrore_fail hope helps tjg _______________________________________________ pythonwin32 mailing list kpitckaew45pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythonwin32 thu 07 aug 2008 163737 0100 pythonwin32 overlay icon question