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Author Topic: IDEA: right-click context menu extension trigger from commandline? possible?  (Read 5717 times)

mouser

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here's an interesting idea for a coding snack, for someone who knows a bit of windows and dll stuff..

the idea was inspired by a trouble using a right click context menu extension to upload an image to imageshack.

as you know there are right-click explorer context menu extensions..

what i was thinking would be a small commandline tool that would be invoked like this:

SimulateRightClick.exe "shellextension.dll" "c:\myfile.jpg"

or something like that.

i don't know how practical this is, but you get the idea - the exe would act as a wrapper around the shell extension, triggering it on a specific file.  the shell extension menu would then want to pop up of course (center of screen?).

dont even know if this is possible... maybe a windows expert like db90h will know..
« Last Edit: April 06, 2006, 02:19 PM by brotherS »

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[EDIT: after reading your post again, not sure this is what you are looking for ]

This is done by yours truely :)


http://www.killcode.com


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« Last Edit: April 08, 2006, 11:15 PM by jazper »

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jazper, your uploader tool looks awesome, and i will definitely be trying it..

my original request still stands though, and could be useful in several instances.
« Last Edit: April 09, 2006, 04:38 AM by mouser »