Windows 7 Explorer.exe - c++

I want to extend Windows 7 Explorer.exe (32/64 bits) where does one start? I want to modify UI adding new menu items and perhaps add new windows directly inside of current window. Is it related to "Basic Folder Object Interfaces"? Any help URLs, Books anything appeciated!

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/shellextguideindex.aspx
If you don't like that ATL (or even C++) stuff, you can combine it with:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/com_in_c1.aspx

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How to add save file dialog in plug-in using 3d's max 2016 SDK (C++)?

I'm currently using 3d's Max 2016 SDK via MV Studio 2012. I've created usual project with Plugin Wizard, it creates panel with text and button (and does many actions inside the code, but that is not the theme).
So, now I want to add some button to activate Windows File Dialog to choose path (folder) and name of .bin-file that will be created afterwards.
I tried to find something in the toolbox at the resource editor but have not succeed.
What should I do?
As you said, you can use directly winapi to create your dialog, but the aesthetic result of the window should differ a bit from dialog already used in 3dsMax. Autodesk has made a lot of UI controls by themselves (or patched winapi ones) and provide their access in the SDK to have something homogeneous between the application and plugins.
What you are looking for here, is the function named DoMaxSaveAsDialog and should be available in Interface8.
Interface8 Class Reference
The problem is solved de-facto. Just used pushbutton and GetSaveFileName function from windows.h header.
For details, read here:
how to save file with GetSaveFileName in win32?

NSIS - Default Installer Width/Height

i have several setups created with nsis (modernui).
Is there any possibility to change the default width/height of the installer?
Regards and thanks,
Dennis
The NSIS UI is actually a main dialog window with a inner dialog where the page content is displayed:
If you want to display multiple pages then you pretty much have to accept this design and use a 3rd-party tool like Resource Hacker to redesign the dialogs. If you want to do this then you should create a copy of "NSIS\Contrib\UIs\modern.exe" and edit it, then use the ChangeUI instruction to select the new UI file (!define MUI_UI yourfile.exe (and possibly the other MUI_UI_* defines) when using the MUI).
On the other hand, if you are developing a autorun splash screen or something like that then you could resize the inner dialog so it covers the whole outer dialog area.
There is no simple attribute that just sets the desired width and height because all controls on all pages also need to be resized and moved...
Have a look at this tool: Graphical Installer for NSIS (a little self promo :)
This tool is capable of changing dimensions of installer + has a lot of other features like installer skinning and many more.

display touch friendly menu on Windows 10

On devices with touch input Windows 10 displays nice touch-friendly menues, so i'm looking for a way to add this into my application. Is there any new flag or a method to show such a menu without making it completely owner-draw?
The control you are referencing is a MenuFlyout. Depending on whether you're using a mouse or touch, Windows 10 will automatically space the menu items closer/further to be optimal for the input you're using.
To use this control (the easy way), your app should be a Windows 10 Universal (UWP) app, which can be written in C#, VB and C++.
You can find official samples for UWP apps on GitHub.

Can windows 7 and 8 common dialogs be hooked

I am trying to replace all Windows Common (Open/Save) filedialog calls with my own custom dialog. From what I read so far, I could do this with a hook on the calls either by writing my own or by using libraries like detours or easyhook. But someone told me recently that such an approach is only possible pre-Vista, because of the change in sessions architecture and it is impossible to do such a switch in Win 7/8. Now, I am not a guy who likes the word 'impossible' :) So if you have any advice on the matter, any at all, please do tell and I will appreciate your kindness.
For what I what to do, my application will be run by the user, it will reside in the tray, and when the user calls for Open/Save dialog from any application, it should replace the default common dialog with a custom dialog.
The newer style Common Item dialogs are implemented as standard COM objects, so you could just implement your own DLL that exposes the same COM interfaces (IFileOpenDialog, IFileSaveDialog, etc) and then override the default registrations in the Registry with your own. That way, every app that uses the dialogs will load your DLL instead of Microsoft's.

How to keep one of my application windows on top of the other windows of the same application?

I have a Motif-based notepad-like legacy application.
I would like the modeless "Find/Replace" dialog (which is a Motif TopLevelShell) to always stay on top of the other windows of my application, but not on top of other applications.
I don't see any Motif-specific setting to do this.
KDE allows me to set window-specific behavior, but I can only make the "Find/Replace" window stay on top of all windows, which isn't right.
What is the correct way to force one of my application windows to stay on top of the other windows of the same application? Is it possible at all? Is there a way to do it in Motif? KDE? Do I have to drop down to an X call?
If you use a DialogShell then this behavior happens automatically. DialogShells are not modal by default, and do work well for file open and find/replace. Here is a quote from the Motif book:
A DialogShell is always placed on top of the shell widget that owns the parent of the DialogShell.
Dialogs are described well in chapter 5.
Sorry for being 12 years late!
You can subclass KDialog http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/classKDialog.html#10744dda705aa265a43becab32a43ea4
with Qt::WA_ShowModal attribute http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.0/qt.html#WindowType-enum
KDialog dialog(parent, Qt::WA_ShowModal)
dialog.exec()
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