[Lazarus] Windows Explorer context menu plug-in with fpc?

[Thierry B.]

Le 22/11/2010 20:30, Bo Berglund a écrit :
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:48:07 +0100, Bo Berglund
> <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:45:51 -0600, Paul Breneman
>> <list2010 at BrenemanLabs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Embarcadero's web site seems to be down at the moment, but there is a 
>>> little copied from a message on one of there forums from 1 Feb 2010:
>>>
>>> At http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/27554 you can find the source code for 
>>> a shell extension which can be compiled to a 64bit library using Free 
>>> Pascal / Lazarus. The source code is compatible with Delphi 7 and 
>>> better, too.
>>>
>>> If you don't already use www.codenewsfast.com you might search on it for
>>> "explorer shell extension 64" and you'll find several threads about this.
>>
>> This site found the posting and it is located in newsgroup:
>> embarcadero.public.delphi.thirdpartytools.general
>> I am keeping many of these newsgroups in my Free Agent archive, but
>> unfortunately I did not subscribe to this particular one before, so i
>> need to connect to embarcadero to geth the update and now it seems
>> like they have shut down the site (maybe it is the scheduled server
>> maintenance on Nov 19, 7PM Pacific that has kicked in early?).
>>
>> The post references the link above and it is dead at the moment...
>> Just have to wait, I guess.
> 
> --- Following reply has been hanging in my out-box for a few days ---
> 
> I continued my search and lo-and-behold! I found this link:
> http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=168&t=Copy_File_Path_and_Name_using_Windows_Explorer_Context_Menu_Extensions
> or as tiny:
> http://tinyurl.com/33yu62g
> 
> There was explained what position in the registry to use in order to
> integrate your command to the Explorer context menu. And it works!
> I have now added UltraEdit and one of my own utilities to the pop-up
> menu in Explorer.  :-D
> 
> Now I only want to know how to expand this into having a multi-line
> menu to the right of the pop-up menu.
> 
> But it looks like there is some hope also here, because there is an
> example delivered with Delphi7 (and probably also in later versions)
> in the Demos folder:
> $DELPHI\Demos\ActiveX\ShellExt
> This has an example, which I have as yet not opened, on how to make a
> plug-in dll probably with menus.
> Of course once embarcadero wakes up I can look at that link too for
> the FPC compatible code.
> 

Do you donwloaded the zip at url I posted herre yesterday ? You have the
complete thread as well as the source project.

Thierrybo