Setting File Summary Info

Starting with Microsoft Office 6.0, all Office documents have a Summary property sheet in which you can enter the Title, Subject, and Author of the document, along with other qualifying information such as Category, Keywords, and Comments
In Windows 2000 and Windows Me, all of this Summary information is displayed in a screen tip. But Windows 2000 or, more correctly, the NTFS file system, carries this one step further and allows you to attach Summary information to any registered file type.
Windows 2000 is able to do this because of an NTFS feature called multiple data streams. Everything that defines an object is passed to the GUI in a data stream. The FAT, Fat32, and VFAT file systems only provide for a single data stream, so the Summary data has to be embedded in the file, as it is with Office documents, in order to be passed on. With NTFS, however, additional data may be attached to an object in another data stream entirely. So long as the file is copied from one NTFS volume to another, the information continues to be passed along. If you copy from an NTFS volume to a non-NTFS volume, however, you'll be warned that information in the additional data stream will be lost.

NTFS file system 5.0 provides an implementation of IPropertySetStorage interface for files on an NTFS volume when the files themselves are not compound files. To get a pointer to the NTFS implementation of IPropertySetStorage, we have to call the StgCreateStorageEx function:

function StgOpenStorageEx (
const pwcsName : POleStr; //Pointer to the path of the
//file containing storage object
grfMode : LongInt; //Specifies the access mode for the object
stgfmt : DWORD; //Specifies the storage file format
grfAttrs : DWORD; //Reserved; must be zero
pStgOptions : Pointer; //Address of STGOPTIONS pointer
reserved2 : Pointer; //Reserved; must be zero
riid : PGUID; //Specifies the GUID of the interface pointer
out stgOpen : //Address of an interface pointer
IStorage ) : HResult; stdcall; external 'ole32.dll';

The implementation of IPropertySetStorage on NTFS file system is similar with compound file implementation and available only on Windows 2000. Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and earlier versions cannot access this interface.

procedure SetFileSummaryInfo(const FileName : WideString);

const
FmtID_SummaryInformation: TGUID = '{F29F85E0-4FF9-1068-AB91-08002B27B3D9}';
FMTID_DocSummaryInformation : TGUID = '{D5CDD502-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}';
FMTID_UserDefinedProperties : TGUID = '{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}';
IID_IPropertySetStorage : TGUID = '{0000013A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}';

const
STGFMT_FILE = 3; //Indicates that the file must not be a compound file.
//This element is only valid when using the StgCreateStorageEx
//or StgOpenStorageEx functions to access the NTFS file system
//implementation of the IPropertySetStorage interface.
//Therefore, these functions return an error if the riid
//parameter does not specify the IPropertySetStorage interface,
//or if the specified file is not located on an NTFS file system volume.

STGFMT_ANY = 4; //Indicates that the system will determine the file type and
//use the appropriate structured storage or property set
//implementation.
//This value cannot be used with the StgCreateStorageEx function.

// Summary Information
PID_TITLE = 2;
PID_SUBJECT = 3;
PID_AUTHOR = 4;
PID_KEYWORDS = 5;
PID_COMMENTS = 6;
PID_TEMPLATE = 7;
PID_LASTAUTHOR = 8;
PID_REVNUMBER = 9;
PID_EDITTIME = 10;
PID_LASTPRINTED = 11;
PID_CREATE_DTM = 12;
PID_LASTSAVE_DTM = 13;
PID_PAGECOUNT = 14;
PID_WORDCOUNT = 15;
PID_CHARCOUNT = 16;
PID_THUMBNAIL = 17;
PID_APPNAME = 18;
PID_SECURITY = 19;


var

 PropSetStg: IPropertySetStorage;

 PropSpec: array of TPropSpec;

 PropStg: IPropertyStorage;

 PropVariant: array of TPropVariant;

 Stg: IStorage;

begin

 OleCheck(StgOpenStorageEx(PWideChar(FileName),

 STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE or STGM_READWRITE,

 STGFMT_ANY,

 0, nil,   nil, @IID_IPropertySetStorage, stg));



 PropSetStg := Stg as IPropertySetStorage;



 OleCheck(PropSetStg.Create(FmtID_SummaryInformation, FmtID_SummaryInformation, PROPSETFLAG_DEFAULT,

 STGM_CREATE or STGM_READWRITE or STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE, PropStg));



 Setlength(PropSpec,5);

 PropSpec[0].ulKind := PRSPEC_PROPID;

 PropSpec[0].propid := PID_AUTHOR;



 PropSpec[1].ulKind := PRSPEC_PROPID;

 PropSpec[1].propid := PID_TITLE;



 PropSpec[2].ulKind := PRSPEC_PROPID;

 PropSpec[2].propid := PID_SUBJECT;



 PropSpec[3].ulKind := PRSPEC_PROPID;

 PropSpec[3].propid := PID_KEYWORDS;



 PropSpec[4].ulKind := PRSPEC_PROPID;

 PropSpec[4].propid := PID_COMMENTS;



 SetLength(PropVariant,5);

 PropVariant[0].vt := VT_LPWSTR;

 PropVariant[0].pwszVal := 'Perevoznyk';



 PropVariant[1].vt := VT_LPWSTR;

 PropVariant[1].pwszVal := 'Delphi Demo Title';



 PropVariant[2].vt := VT_LPWSTR;

 PropVariant[2].pwszVal := 'NTFS Storage';



 PropVariant[3].vt := VT_LPWSTR;

 PropVariant[3].pwszVal := 'Delphi';



 PropVariant[4].vt := VT_LPWSTR;

 PropVariant[4].pwszVal := 'No Comments';



 OleCheck(PropStg.WriteMultiple(5, @PropSpec[0], @PropVariant[0], 2 ));

 PropStg.Commit(STGC_DEFAULT);

end;

If a specified property already exists, its value is replaced with the new one, even when the old and new types for the property value are different. If the specified property does not already exist, that property is created.
Property sets, not including the data for nonsimple properties, are limited to 256 KB in size for Windows NT 4.0 systems and earlier. For Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 family, OLE property sets are limited to 1 MB. If these limits are exceeded, the operation fails and the caller receives an error message. There is no possibility of a memory leak or overrun.

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