Visual Basic :: Context Menu Item On Certain Files

How To Add Menu Item To The Windows Explorer Context Menu Using Vb6
Hi,

Can anyone please let me know,
How to add my application item "Run My application" to the windows explorer context menu and on right click-> click on this item , i need to run my application. How can i do this using VB6? its exactly like winzip and other programs doing. First thing is i want to add to the context menu of windows explorer and on click my item, i need to know on whick item user selected this option. I need to do this in VB6. Please help me in this regard.

thanking you

Praveen

Add Item To The Context Menu
Hi all,

I need to add my item to the context menu of the system tray as shown in attached image. Please tell me how can I add item and get the click of the menu item.

Thanks.

Select Item In Context Menu Of Another Application
I want to know if there is any way to invoke item in context-menu of another application.

Situation: I have an application which is a data window with “SysListView32” class. When I right click inside this window, the context menu pops-up and there is a option to copy the data, which basically gets copied to clipboard.

Problem: The problem is that the the ‘copy’ option of the context-menu doesn’t have ‘Ctrl+C’ option so sendkey doesn’t copy data from this window.

What I want? – I want to know if there is any other way where I can get menu handle or menu-id of one particular option within context menu. I want to send message to this window and achieve the result that would happened when ‘Copy’ option is selected within the context menu.

Thought – I know something like this is possible for normal menu options that are there on top of the window, like you can SendMessage to menu-id.

Can a similar this be achieved for auto selecting a particular option of context-menu of another application?

Would appreciate help on this one?

Add An Item To The Windows Explorer Context Menu
Is it possible to do it strictly through VB code and/or APIs and have the new menu item run a program when clicked?

Add Item To Explorer's Edit Context Menu ?
Can anyone point me in the right direction...

I want to add a menu item to the context menu (and then do an action) that appears if you right click in a document or in a textbox etc - the standard ones being:-

Undo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete
Select All

I need this to be available for any running program...

Cheers
Gavin.

Select Context Menu Item Of Another Application
I want to know if there is any way to invoke context-menu option of another application.

Situation: I have an application which is a data window with “SysListView32” class. When I right click inside this window, the context menu pops-up and there is a option to copy the data, which basically gets copied to clipboard.

Problem: The problem is that the the ‘copy’ option the context-menu doesn’t have ‘Ctrl+C’ option so sendkey doesn’t copy data from this window.

What I want? – I want to know if there is any other way where I can get menu handle or menu-id of one particular option within context menu. I want to send message to this window and achieve the result that would happened when ‘Copy’ option is selected from the context menu.

Thought – I know something like this is possible for normal menu options that are there on top of window, like you can sendmessage to menu-id. Can a similar this be achieved for auto selecting a particular option of context-menu of another application?

Would appreciate help on this one?

Reply to hskohli@hotmail.com

How To Activate Context Menu For Listview Item
I'd like to create a context menu that works like the one in Windows explorer.
I.e. when you right-click on an item
the listitem under the cursor should be selected
and a popupmenu should be desplayed.

So far it looks as if the Click event is triggered, no matter whether the left or right mouse button is clicked. (I need left-clicks for another purpose).
I tried trapping the MouseDown-event, but then I don't know how to select the item under the cursor (HitText returns Nothing).

Any help greatly appreciated.

Addind Icon To Windows Context Menu Item
Hello,

I wish to add my own item to the winow context menu when user righ clicks on BMP file. I wish the item to have both caption and icon (like winzip have). I manged to add the item caption only. How do I set the icon?

I the item to the bmpfilehandler in the context menu:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/bmpFileHandler/shell/MyApp/Command
Default=MyAppPath.exe "%1"

Thank you,
Yonik.

How To Detect Item Chosen In A Right Click Context Menu?
When you right click on a textbox, you get the cut,copy,paste, and delete context menu. How can I detect which of these choices was selected?
I need to create a text validation on what action was taken, but validation only happens when you move off the textbox. So if a user should close the app or refresh the app, I can detect what action was taken and validate it.

Adding Menu Item To The Windows Explorer Context
Hi,

Can anyone please let me know,
How to add my application item "Run My application" to the windows explorer context menu and on right click-> click on this item , i need to run my application. How can i do this using VB6? its exactly like winzip and other programs doing. First thing is i want to add to the context menu of windows explorer and on click my item, i need to know on whick item user selected this option. I need to do this in VB6. Please help me in this regard.

thanking you

Praveen

Add Menu Item To Context Menu
How can I add a sub menu to the popup menu that you get when you right-click the desktop (similar to the attached picture)?

Adding An Item To Default Context Menu For R/click On App Title Bar
How do I add an item to the default context menu of a Window(s).. The right click on an app title bar or Task bar icon.. (Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, Close)
I want to add a few things to it like 'OnTop' and 'Hide' and a few other things.. I can do everything but the adding to the context menu.

Adding An Item To The Right-click Context Menu Of Network Neighbourhood Computers
Well, read the title!

Is there any way of adding a custom link to my program to the right-click menu of computers on a LAN in Network Neighbourhood?

Kinda like a link which passes the name of the computer onto the proggy ... ?

Context Menu - Multi Selected Files - One Instance
I created an item in the context menu of Window Explorer. I hooked the exe to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*SHELL
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershell

It works fine on single files!

Only problem is when I select multiple files, it runs multiple instance of the exe hooked to that context menu.

How can I make it so that it take in all selected files as parameters but only fires off the instance only once? Similar to a software called "Beyond Compare".

Does it have to do something with the registry - Reg_Multi_SZ with %1?

Adding A Menu Item To All Files
Could someone please tell me what I do to the registry to add a menu item to all files? (Ex: Open With My App, on every file... NOT folders though) Thanks!

Disable MDI Parent's System Context Menu Right & Left Click Menu Pop-up. How?
I am trying to do this without much luck, but managed to get rid-of the Min/Max buttons via an MS example at the link below.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;137033

However, when a user right clicks on-the MDI parent's Caption bar, a popup up menu appears - Woud like to prevent that.

Secondly, if a user "LEFT" Click on the top Left corner of the same Caption bar (where the Icon appears); it pops the same Pop-Up Menu - Like to stop that.

Thirdly, If a user double clicks on the same menu bar, form flickers, bobs down & up (Min & back to Max state), looks back at you and say's "fooled Ya!", as if it was possessed by some sort of strange evil code. Now I Would really, really, like to make it stop doing that.

Basically, like to prevent any mouse action on MDI Parent's Title Bar. Searched for couple of hours in vain (pain), but nothing turned up for what I am looking for. I can stop the right click on the form it-self by detecting mouse down button, but that’s not preventing the click event in MDI parent's title/caption bar.

Anyone know how or what needs to be done to get this to work? Any and all help, suggestions, etc. will be greatly appreciated!

Popup Menu, Context Menu Dynamic Creation?
Hi everyone,

i used the google search and the forum search but i didnt find any suitable result.
What i want to do:
i want to display a popup menu which is dynamic created from an xml file. i read the xml file to my own private type structure and now i want to display a popup menu. the only, as i think very ugly way i found is sevpopup menu active x. the problem with that menu is, that in every way there is a space for icons in menu which i dont have and the other problem is that i want to copy and not to install the application.
Really important for me is that i can create submenus!

Thank you all for help!

buechse

How Easy Is It To Add To Context Menu (right Click Menu)
I'd like to be able to add to the context menu (right click menu), how is this possible? and is it restricted to the application i.e I'd like to add one to an Excel sheet and one to normal windows operations

Adding Menu In Desktop Context Menu
Hello,

Is a way to add your own menu in the desktop context menu as Nvidia drivers done, please?

Thanks in advance.

How To Add Menu In Windows Explorer Context Menu
hi again,

I would like to add my custom menu to windows explorer.

some what i know that i need to add key entry into registry. and i did that. but it did not work

can any one help me..

Thanks in advance.

meena

How Do I Design A Context Menu (Popup Menu) In VB?
Hi,

I want to design a popup menu for a form in VB. I already have a menu for the form. This menu is displayed below the title bar. When I try to use the Menu Editor, it only lets me edit this menu. I want to design a new menu which will popup like a context menu. How do I do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Add Our Menu To System Context Menu
Hi everybody,

How could add menu and binding related action to our existing system Context menu such like WinZip and so on.

Context Menu
how do u make a right click menu on VB6

Context Menu
How i can get my application name in system context menu when right click on a file and on click opens that file in my application? Like winzip.

Please give me some suggestions.

thanx

Context Menu
I want to know how to invoke item in context-menu of another application.

Situation: I have an application which is a data window with “SysListView32” class. When I right click inside this window, the context menu pops-up and there is a option to copy the data, which basically gets copied to clipboard.

Problem: The problem is that the the ‘copy’ option of the context-menu doesn’t have ‘Ctrl+C’ option so sendkey doesn’t copy data from this window.

What I want? – I want to know if there is any other way where I can get menu handle or menu-id of one particular option within context menu. I want to send message to this window and achieve the result that would happened when ‘Copy’ option is selected within the context menu.

Thought – I know something like this is possible for normal menu options that are there on top of the window, like you can SendMessage to menu-id.

Can a similar this be achieved for auto selecting a particular option of context-menu of another application?

Would appreciate help on this one?

Context Menu
Hi all,

I want to write an application in VB 6.0, it automatically calls a context menu item of a control in .net application (It looks like we right-click on that control and choose a menu item when the context menu appeared).
Everyone who know it, help me pls.

Thanks in advance,

Context Menu In The .exe
Hi.
There are some programs that when you click on their .exe file, the context menu that is displayed has some uniqe options. For example WinZip has those: "Compress to Zip File" "Compress Ass..." etc.

How can i do that?

Thanks

IE Context Menu
Hi

I'm trying to implement my application to the internet explorer context menu. I managed to show the title of my application in the menu but there is no action using these registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt&MyAppl
(Standard)=P:WorkvbMyAppl.exe
contexts=1

What I'd like to do: As you click the menu entry, my application will get the url of the current page (or frame) like the way you can read it out in the properties.

Can anybody help me or give me some hints?

thanks and regards
Xdream

Context Menu
I have a question here. I need to know how to make a custom context menu, like when i right click on an item in a list box for example, a context menu with stuff i want on it will appear.

Abt....Context Menu
hi

i have 2 thing...

first i need to add my app shortcut with icon to windows SendTo option....

and the next i need to call the SendTo menu in my app... the existing all shortcuts in windows.

i tried making entried in register but that seams of no use... may be not at correct level.

Context Menu In IE
i want my app to do somethings with Internet Explorer pages..the best way is actually having menu's in the ie's context menu..and i already did that..i already created the menu but now i want to know how to use it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ls/context.asp here says that i must put a link to a script..but how do i make the script..? can the script be made in vb6? and in vb.net?

im a little desesperate about this for help..
any help appreciated

Context Menu
Hi,
How do i add a menu to the windows context menu similar to WinZip where you can right click on a file and click on "Add to Zip".

Some code(module) would be appriciated.

Thanks

Swf Context Menu
Does anyone know a way to disable the context menu which appears when you right click on a swf? In the control's properties, you can disable everything except for the last selection.....which is a link to Macromedia's website. My goal is preventing users from opening up I.E.

I've tried using a webbrowser control instead of the shockwave control to display the swf. With this I used Bloodeye's code to disable right click in a webbrowser, which worked w/ html pages, but not when the url was a non-embedded swf.

any ideas?

Context Menu
Hi all,
I have made a usercontrol that show files/folders from a specific path using a ListView control.
Is possible to show the context menu for my file/folder with a right click, like Windows?

Thanks to all

Context Menu
Hi,

suppose I've popped up a context menu

now the menu is open

but it wont close until I do a left click somewhere outside its area. What I want is on rightclick outside the are to reopen it again on the new position.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Valery Iskarov Nikolov
Software Dynamics

Context Menu
I have a problem displaying underlined symbols in Context Menu under Windows 2000. Everything is fine if I run application under WinNT 4.0.

CMenu menu;
if( menu.CreatePopupMenu() )
{
menu.AppendMenu(MF_STRING, ID_MY_ID, (LPCTSTR)_T("&MyMenu1") );
menu.TrackPopupMenu( TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, 100, 100, this );
}

Context Menu
Hi! In my application there are many textboxs , and how can I make the context
menu do not visible when user click mouse right button in the textbox ?
Thanks !

Context Menu
When I right click on a maskedit box, windows default popup menu (Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Select All) is displayed. I want to disablel this popup menu. I know that this can be done if I invoke another user made dummy menu. But I don't want any kind of menus.

Software Engineer
Bangalore

Context Menu In NT
Hi,
I am making a submenu in context menu of the explorer. For that I am using the API calls for InsertMenu etc. The code is working fine for all the OS except Windows NT. In NT it makes the submenu and the icon associated with the menu but the text of the menu does not appears. Even the functionality of the menu is working properly.
Does anyone have any idea about it ?
Please reply soon
thanks in advance
Mayank Kumar

HELP On Context Menu
can someone tell me how to implement this,.,.I want to ADD TO..NOT REPLACE the internet explorer context menu. I want to add "Open in new tab" option to the right click menu..heres how its supposed to be done..just need the "explained code" for how to read/write/and delete from the registry....

Implementation Steps
The following steps are required to add an entry into the standard context menus in Internet Explorer.

Create a new key, using the text you want displayed in the context menu as the name, under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt

The result should look like:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt<Menu Text>
<Menu Text> should be replaced with the text that you want displayed in the context menu. The name can include an ampersand (&) character, which will cause the character that follows to be underlined and used as a shortcut key.

Set the default value of the key to the URL of the page that contains the script you want the context menu entry to execute. This script can obtain the parent window object, the screen where the context menu item was executed, from the menuArguments property of the external object.
Optional. Create a binary value, Contexts, under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt<Menu Text>

The result should look like:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt<Menu Text>Contexts
Set the value of Contexts to indicate which contexts your entry should appear in the standard context menu by using a bit mask consisting of the logical OR of the following values:

Context Value
Default 0x1
Images 0x2
Controls 0x4
Tables 0x8
Text selection 0x10
Anchor 0x20

For example, if you want your context menu entry to appear in the default context menu and when the context is a text selection, set the value of Contexts to 0x11.

Optional. Create a DWORD value, Flags, under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt<Menu Text>

The result should look like:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt<Menu Text>Flags
Set the value of Flags to 0x1 to make the script run just as if it had been called through the showModalDialog method. Unlike the showModalDialog method, the script can access the window object of the parent window from the menuArguments property of the external object.

so Ive all of the Pseuso code..i just need the "how to" and comment on the code to explain it to me would be great!

How Do A Add A Context Menu To A SSTab?
Hi,

I'm currently trying to add a right click popup menu to a sstab. The menu appears fine, but it doesn't select the tab that I right click (the previously selected tab remains selected). I'm currently trying to make the menu appear in SSTab_MouseUp. I need to know which tab is selected because I want to delete the selected tab.

Anybody have any idea?

Thanks!

Windows Context Menu
I can use

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT xtfileshellMyCommand]
@="MyCommand"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT xtfileshellMyCommandcommand]
@="C:\WINDOWS\System32\myapp.exe "%1""

To add a right click context menu to explorer for filetype txtfile, with exception of adding the same entry for all registered filetypes in windows, does anyone know how to add a context entry so it displayes when ANY file is right clicked?

Context Menu In Outlook
Hi all

I try to add a button (link towards a macro) in the 'context menu' under outlook XP.

In light I want to be able to make a right click on a mail and launch an action on this mail.

Thank you in advance for your help …

Explorer Context Menu
Hi,

Is it possible to write an explorer shell extension that appears in the right-click context menu using VB6? Is it difficult to do?

Best regards,
AstroTux.

Context Menu Icon
Hi,
I want to add a menu item WITH ICON to the windows standard context menu (the one that appears when you right click on desktop or windows explorer).
Anyone knows about this?
Thanks

How To Position A Context Menu?
I am creating a Context Menu (menu when right click). I want it to pop up where the mouse pointer locate. how can i do this?

This is what I got when Mousedown:

Private Sub grdMain_MouseDown(Index As Integer, ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
If Button = vbRightButton Then
Me.PopupMenu MenuName as object,[flags], [X], [Y], [DefaultMenu]
End If
End Sub

x and y are where you want it to pop up. How do I know where the mouse pointer located on the screen?
Thanks,

Windows Context Menu
I wasn't sure where to put this question, so I have put it in General.

My question is: In Windows, when you right click files, it comes up with a context menu and a number of options like add to zip file, rename file, etc... I know this is probably more of a windows programming question, but how is it possible to add your own items to that menu through VB?

I ask this as I have an encryption program and it would be useful if after it is installed, all you need to do is right click an item and choose decrypt to do exactly that.

Thanks if you can help.