Writing a little app to help users to create projects of files related to other files (rather simple, I know) and while I can get the associated icon via the "ExtractAssociatedIcon" function I cannot find a way to get the File's document type by it's association. For example if you look at the status bar of the Windows Explorer you can see "Adobe Photoshop Image" when I select a PSD file.
There seems to be a few small changes that they're making, and I think this is a good thing. While this stuff isn't ground breaking, it is important, and I think Windows has missed this polish for the past 10 odd years. Personally I wouldn't care for moving it anywhere else other than where it is but I am very grateful that they did change it from that stupid Windows 8 one!
Hey, maybe attended robotaxis can start a trend, where all automated robo stuff gets chaperoned by a human!
Automated self-checkouts in grocery stores could be manned by humans who will scan the items for you and bag them, for safety reasons of course. It's not healthy for my frustration level at all when I buy a bag and it insists that I take it off since I've now messed up the scale.
And a human attendant for robo-answerers, you know, to prevent customers from stroking out in automated attendant hell.
"AGENT. REAL PERSON. GIVE ME A REAL PERSON. REAL ######ING PERSON. SOMEONE OTHER THAN A STUPID ROBOT VOICE ON A STUPID LOOP THAT CAN'T HELP ME. HAAAALLLLLPPPP!"
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James Rose
Hello gang,
Writing a little app to help users to create projects of files related to other files (rather simple, I know) and while I can get the associated icon via the "ExtractAssociatedIcon" function I cannot find a way to get the File's document type by it's association. For example if you look at the status bar of the Windows Explorer you can see "Adobe Photoshop Image" when I select a PSD file.
Any ideas?
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