Enumerating supported media files
Ever had to enumerate the supported media files under Windows for example for the filter-string for GetOpenFileName?Here is a simple solution (using ATL for the registry access):void EnumSupportedMediaFileTypes(){ CRegKey key; CString s; DWORD dwLen; DWORD dw =...
Ever had to enumerate the supported media files under Windows for example for the filter-string for
GetOpenFileName
?
Here is a simple solution (using ATL for the registry access):
void EnumSupportedMediaFileTypes() { CRegKey key; CString s; DWORD dwLen; DWORD dw = key.Open(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, _T("Media Type\\Extensions"), KEY_READ); for(DWORD n = 0;dw == ERROR_SUCCESS; n++) { dwLen = 100; dw = key.EnumKey(n, s.GetBuffer(dwLen), &dwLen); s.ReleaseBuffer(); if (ERROR_SUCCESS == dw) { // do something with the file extension here } } }This might not include all supported types, but it is a good beginning... :)