Topic: Dynamic Explorer context menus - problem

[bradmathews]

Howdy all,

I have written an app that dynamically modifies the windows explorer context menu. It works on all files as I put my GUID into HKCR\* (and HKCR\AllFileSystemObject and HKCR\Folder while attempting to debug this issue).

The problem is it doesn't work in My Computer, only Windows Explorer. Right click on a file in My Computer and I get bupkis.

I installed a couple of utilities that work the same way mine does and the registry entries are identical. Yet they DO work in My Computer and Windows Explorer.

I got my code and techniques from Hamilton's VB Shell Programming, Michael Dunn's article on The Code Project and a lot of sleuthing in the registry.

Is there something missing in my implementation?

Thanks in Advance,
Brad

 

[bradmathews]

Solved!

Right click in Windows Explorer and uFlags passes CMF_EXPLORE as expected.

Right click in My Computer and uFlags passes CMF_NORMAL which is what you would expect for a right click drag! Even more interesting, when I do try a right-click drag, uFlags does not pass CMF_NORMAL. Not that I care right now, but then, what is the interface for right-click drags?

This really doesn't make much sense, but if this stuff was easy we wouldn't get paid the big bucks.

- Brad