\nI’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep it up,\nbut I’m going to see if I can make Monday\n“Little Programs” day,\nwhere I solve simple problems with little programs.\n<\/P>\n
\nToday’s little program is a script that\ngoes through your Pictures folder and picks out your top-rated photos.\n<\/P>\n
\nThe key step here is extracting the rating,\nwhich goes by the name\n\n \nWow, that was way easier than doing it in C++!\n<\/P>\n \nThat program searches one folder,\nbut let’s say we want to do a full recursive search.\nNo problem.\nTake the code we wrote and shove it into a helper function\n function recursiveProcessFolder(folder) {\n processFilesInFolder(folder);\n var items = folder.Items();\n var SHCONTF_FOLDERS = 32;\n items.Filter(SHCONTF_FOLDERS, “*”);\n for (var i = 0; i < items.Count; i++) {\n recursiveProcessFolder(items.Item(i).GetFolder);\n }\n}<\/p>\n var shell = new ActiveXObject(“Shell.Application”);\nvar picturesFolder = shell.Namespace(39);\nrecursiveProcessFolder(picturesFolder);\n<\/PRE>\n \nYou can use this as a jumping-off point for whatever\nyou want to do with your top-rated pictures,\nlike copy them to your digital photo frame.\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep it up, but I’m going to see if I can make Monday “Little Programs” day, where I solve simple problems with little programs. Today’s little program is a script that goes through your Pictures folder and picks out your top-rated photos. The key step here is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep it up, but I’m going to see if I can make Monday “Little Programs” day, where I solve simple problems with little programs. Today’s little program is a script that goes through your Pictures folder and picks out your top-rated photos. The key step here is […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}System.Rating<\/CODE><\/A>\nin the shell property system.\nThe method which does the extraction is\n\nShellFolderItem.ExtendedProperty<\/CODE><\/A>.\n<\/P>\n\nvar shell = new ActiveXObject(“Shell.Application<\/A>“);\nvar picturesFolder = shell.Namespace(39); \/\/ CSIDL_MYPICTURES\nvar items = picturesFolder.Items();\nvar SHCONTF_NONFOLDERS = 64;\nitems.Filter<\/A>(SHCONTF_NONFOLDERS, “*.jpg”);\nfor (var i = 0; i < items.Count; i++) {\n var item = items.Item(i);\n if (item.ExtendedProperty(“System.Rating”) >= 80) {\n WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(item.Path);\n }\n}\n<\/PRE>\n
processFilesInFolder<\/CODE>,\nthen call it as part of a recursive directory search.\n<\/P>\n\nfunction processFilesInFolder(folder) {\n var items = folder.Items();\n var SHCONTF_NONFOLDERS = 64;\n items.Filter(SHCONTF_NONFOLDERS, “*.jpg”);\n for (var i = 0; i < items.Count; i++) {\n var item = items.Item(i);\n if (item.ExtendedProperty(“System.Rating”) >= 80) {\n WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(item.Path);\n }\n }\n}<\/p>\n