Extracting Shapes Menu Items using MsiEnumComponentQualifiers

[Dave]

We have code in our app that extracts the items in the File->Shapes menu so
we can add the list of these items to our application that hosts the Visio
drawing control. We used this code from a help request 2 years ago. It was
CASE_ID_NUM: SRX040413603361

Gerard Collop sent us a code sample on how to do this using
MsiEnumComponentQualifiers to enumerate all the components with the following
GUID: CF1F488D-8D6F-499C-A78D-026E1DF38101.

We found that szAppBuf returns a string of items delimited by "|".
Example: "Network\Active Directory Objects|ADO_M.vss;Active Directory
Objects.vss;ADO_U.vss;Active Directory Objects (US Units).vss;<Begin
Localize>;Active Directory Objects.vss"
So we used this to extract the name of the shapes item to display in our menu.

The problem is that other locales (French, Japanese, etc.) szAppBuf doesn't
return a string in this format. It returns something like this
[$AdsobWOijdoUjendlOw...]

What is this second format? Is it some type of encoded string?

 

[JuneTheSecond]

I wonder who knows about such an code. You maight better to majke new one.
Could I ask you what is your purpose? List of command bar menu control items?
List of full name of the stencils?

 

[peter.bittner]

Dave,

would you mind to paste the relevant code snippet that extracts the
items from the File->Shapes menu? The same or similar code probably can
extract the "resent files list" from the File menu.

I am able to read out all Visio menu items, but for those file lists
Visio just returns a basically useless dummy string. I have been
looking for a solution for while!

Thanks so much!
Peter