Re: How difficult is to add my menu to Windows Explorer?


"mayayana" <mayayaXXna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need my menu to appear not when the folders list are displayed, but
only
when some text document is opened (edit mode).
For example:
when Notepad is opened there is: Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select
All
or Internet Explorer window, which also has:Cut,Copy,Copy, Shortcut,
Paste
(some greyed out),
or MsWord, which has Cut, Copy, Paste
etc
Are those Shell menus or belonging to each application indepedently?


They belong to the respective program. That's nothing
to do with Shell. Shell is Explorer.exe. It's the program
that lets you see and handle the file system graphically.
But once you open a file in a specific program that's no
longer Shell. The only commonality is that Explorer and Notepad
both have context menu functionality.

> Maybe, I am asking too much?

I'm afraid so. I guess you'd have to hook into the
Notepad (or other) process for that. Even if you
could accomplish that it'd probably set off security/AV
alarms. You really have no business hijacking someone
else's software.
In IE/Web Browser control there used to be functionality
to disable the standard context menu. I'm not sure if that's
still available. I think that in IE it was actually something
scripted thruogh the DOM, so it would require accessing the
document with script enabled. And since that functionality
was really more a bug than a feature, they may have fixed
it by now.

I noticed that a few days ago you were trying to
add your software to IE as the default program for
various protocols, and you didn't get any answer to that
question.

Maybe you'd be better off if you just explain what you
actually hope to accomplish. Someone here might
be able to be of more help then.

Thank you for the explanation. I was confused for a while, because I have
received some requests for my app to add popup menu to other app windows
similiar to the IE meny extention my app has built-in.
Regarding the other problem, I have solved it myself (it was a small mistake
on my part).
Kathy


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