yea that seems to be the issue that I’m seeing all over.
what are you using as reference? I’ve been taking a look through some stuff, but so far its a bit past me as yet. and unfortunately the iExtractImage hasn’t been added to the pywin32com yet either so no easy way there.
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/net/code/libraries/shell_projects/Thumbnail_Extraction/article.asp
along with http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb761854(VS.85).aspx
this one looks promising, but seems to be vista only? http://mattolenik.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?mkt=en-US&partner=Live.Spaces
this one works with the shell comm classes, and defaults to an icon if there is no thumbnail http://codegator.com/mcook/archive/2007/06/10/extracting-thumbnails-using-the-windows-shell.aspx
I have a feeling I’m just going to make an easy way to generate thumbs as images and say screw ripping them from the files themselves. we’ll see
Hi Dave, in order to answer, I have just posted about this is in a separate thread and detailed my process on my site – http://www.lonerobot.com/Thumb.html
I decided to just release it and update a x64 build later. hope it helps.