Shell extension for Windows Explorer context menu

[Instructor]

Installation:
Extract files from shellext-bin.zip in the same folder with AkelPad.exe and execute shellext-register.cmd to register extension.

Download:
shellext - binaries (x86/x64)
shellext - source

© Ralph Shane

[Infocatcher]

1. It would be good to have an option to change "Open with AkelPad" text – to translate it and add access key (e.g. "Open with &AkelPad").
2. This context menu item breaks built-in style on Windows 7 (used x86 version):
Correct:

Wrong:

[Nighted]

There's a program called Open++ that you can use for adding anything as a shell extension. Very good and portable. Also File Menu Tools is excellent but not as light weight as Open++ which is just over 100KB when UPX'd.

[Fr0sT]

when UPX'd

Ha! Consuming less HDD space (which is VERY large currently) while consuming more RAM and CPU (which are quite large too but are wasted by Windows 7, tons of services, browsers and so on).

[Ralph Shane]

1. It would be good to have an option to change "Open with AkelPad" text – to translate it and add access key (e.g. "Open with &AkelPad").
2. This context menu item breaks built-in style on Windows 7 (used x86 version):
Correct:

Wrong:

I have write all the visable string to the resource file. We can compile the resource as a divided dll. But how do I decided to load which one DLL?

BTW. I can not see any image posted by you.

[Ralph Shane]

There's a program called Open++ that you can use for adding anything as a shell extension. Very good and portable. Also File Menu Tools is excellent but not as light weight as Open++ which is just over 100KB when UPX'd.

But it's seems that this DLL dosn't open-sourced.

[Ralph Shane]

Hi Instructor,

I can not write the folder http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/files/tools/ , so I have to send e-mail again.

[Infocatcher]

BTW. I can not see any image posted by you.

MirrorMirror

Correct:

Wrong:

[Ralph Shane]

Correct:

Wrong:


I don't know the means of the Russion menu. Is the items' order massed? But if it's in this case, I don't know how to fixed it.

[Infocatcher]

Ralph Shane
No, I'm about highlighting under cursor for menus and menu items.
You probably use some wrong (obsolete?) way to add icon.

[Ralph Shane]

Ralph Shane
No, I'm about highlighting under cursor for menus and menu items.
You probably use some wrong (obsolete?) way to add icon.

I have fixed this issue.
You said " add access key (e.g. "Open with &AkelPad"). ", I have add the functionality, but it can not appear in win 7/8. Can you give any advice.

[Infocatcher]

Ralph Shane
By default access keys are visible only if menu is opened using keyboard.
On Windows 7 this can be configured in
Панель управления\Специальные возможности\Центр специальных возможностей\Облегчение работы с клавиатурой
(I don't have English version, this is about "keyboard" and "accessibility" in Control panel.)

[Ralph Shane]

Infocatcher
I have download the install package and tested it in win2k. I find that the package is not contain the dll. I hope you enclose it to the binary package. Do you have any suspision?

[Infocatcher]

Ralph Shane
You muddle up me with Instructor?

[addhaloka]

Ralph Shane
Why in the icon size 64x64? It is necessary, or can leave only 16x16?