[spiritpyre]

@ Pedro56

ok, since its on xp my best guess is still th refresh routine. When it refreshes the window (and displays/hides the file extensions) it tries to use a hotkey combo. But I think what's happening is that another hotkey is in place which uses part or all of the same key combination. -- like I said, I'd love to doing the refresh in a more 'programmatic' way but using a key combo is the only way I've been able to find that actually WORKS.

Anyway here's what you can try: open windows explorer exactly like you do when you experience the problem. Then try pressing Shift+F10. The right-click menu should pop-up exactly as if you had used the mouse. Next, with the menu still up, press 'e' (for Refresh) on the keyboard. If you get the same problem then there's some installed program that has stolen one of Microsoft's default hotkey combos. If it refreshes normally I'm not sure. My systems are both xp home w/ sp2 and try as i might it works fine on both...

Is anybody else able to recreate this issue? (system/conditions?)

This post has been edited by spiritpyre: 04 January 2006 - 12:06 AM

[BlueMe]

spiritpyre pal, can u tell how can i change the text from your HiddenFilesToggle extension ..i reshacked all my menus to make them smaller and this kinda makes the desktop menu a little to big so i would like to change it in " Toggle Hidden" or something similar or even shorter, Thanks again for all these great shell ext.

This post has been edited by BlueMe: 04 January 2006 - 12:30 AM

[Pedro56]

@spiritpyre

Thanks, the menus are different with Explorer Bar/Folders active. With Folders active the list is:
Open
Explore
Search
Sharing and security...
Netware Copy
Send to
Cut
Copy
Create Shortcut
Delete
Rename
Properties

Without Folders active:
View
Arrange Icons by >
Refresh
Paste
Paste Shortcut
File Extension Toggle
New
Properties

The context menu varies depending on whether My Documents, Folders or a Drive is selected but all have Search as one of the menu items rather than Refresh.

[Nighted]

Anyone know where I can get an extension that will let me open a folder in a new window from the context menu?

[atomizer]

anyone know of something similar to 'folderbox' that enables explorer to display either dual panes or, better yet, tabs for different folders?
i'm not looking for a shell replacement, just a tweak or extension.

[eidenk]

Quote

Anyone know where I can get an extension that will let me open a folder in a new window from the context menu?

You don't need an extension for doing this. Editing the registry is enough :

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\New Window]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\New Window\Command]
@="explorer.exe %1"

That's for exploring folders as root from the context menu if anyone's interested :

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\rootexplore]
@="&Root Explore"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\rootexplore\command]
@="Explorer.exe /e,/root,/idlist,%I"

[spiritpyre]

@BlueMe

sorry, but atm its hard coded in (extensions all send the caption text to explorer when its requested). When/if I get the time, I *might* be able to add support for custom captions. shouldn't be too bad, but between school, work, and my other project time is somewhat on short supply. I'll try to work it in when i can tho.

@Pedro56

ok. I've checked this on 4 systems running xp home (sp2) and 1 system at school running xp pro (sp2) and every context menu I find has refresh (regardless of launching via Windows Explorer/My Computer) . So what I'm wondering is if what you found might be the result of another 3rd party software/ registry tweak / etc. installed on the system in question.

AFAIK, explorer does not have separate registry entries for its context menus launching from windows explorer vs. my computer/(any folder). anybody feel free to confirm this. Since my school has disabled search that may be that problem. But, I still don't see why not having it disabled would take away the refresh option. What you may be able to do is find and remove the registry entry that adds search to the context menu (don't forget to make BACKUPS first!) which may take some experimenting.

I can say though that having search instead of refresh is definately the reason that you're getting the problem, but without another way to refresh I can't do anything different. Hope you can get things working but I don't really think I can do much unless I find a new way of refreshing the system.

@Nighted
eidenk beat me to it. its a much much simpler solution to just add via registry.

@atomizer
not that i know of, but the tabs-in-explorer thing is a pretty cool idea.

[atomizer]

spiritpyre, on Jan 6 2006, 09:46 AM, said:

@atomizer
not that i know of, but the tabs-in-explorer thing is a pretty cool idea.

problem is, i doubt that an extension can provide that, though i may be wrong. i may be looking at a shell replecement and, so far, i haven't found any i really like.

[BlueMe]

@spiritpyre, thanks for your reply, no need to add custom caption, just rename it to simply "Toggle Hidden" that will be so sweet . I think they all agree ! Wouldnt' ya ?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I agree removing the "files" part from all of them would be nice spiritpyre.

[BlueMe]

Man...i'm going crazy over this shell ext. i'm checking this post to frequently !

Edit :
Since i got bored and nothing to do, i might as well sugest something in case u ranned out of ideas of what shell ext. u can do and how to , i got a very good (i think) ideea... it would be great to have an toggle desktop icons (hide /unhide) shell ext. also, and maybe you could make some of them into one submenu ..i mean : it would look something like this ;

Arrange Icons By
Refresh
-
-
Toggle - Desktop Icons
		  - File Extension
		  - Hidden Files
New
Properties

This post has been edited by BlueMe: 09 January 2006 - 10:44 AM

[spiritpyre]

BlueMe, on Jan 8 2006, 04:10 PM, said:

Man...i'm going crazy over this shell ext. i'm checking this post to frequently !

See my first post in the thread (or click my sig). You can now change the captions for the File Ext Toggler & the Hidden Files Toggler to anything you want. I gave instructions in the first post, but basically you'll need to use regedit or a reg file to add your title like so:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Custom Caption for File Ext Toggler
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Custom ShExts\File Ext Toggler]
@="Ext's On/Off"

; Custom Caption for Hidden File Toggler
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Custom ShExts\Hidden File Toggler]
@="Hidden/Not"

enjoy

btw if anyone wants to repack the dll's and upload 'em here go ahead.
as for the separate menu thing, that's what I've been working on for awhile now. The main delay is that I need to be able to read and interpret text from text/ini files (and I plan on using the same code for at least 4 projects now). SO... basically I've been writing trying to build a class that's as versatile and flexible as notepad, but with less UI (in all but 1 project). So far my class supports ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode, & Unicode - Big Endian but I've been extending it like crazy. Before I finish it up though my goal is that it can run head-to-head or surpass Notepad on text files (regardless of encoding) of up to 32 MB in size... which I'm pretty close on that part (w/ current schedule.. few weeks hopefully)

This post has been edited by spiritpyre: 08 January 2006 - 04:35 PM

[BlueMe]

I love you man ! Well i love the ext. Very good work ! Tell you something ...i've searched the net and man, your extensions are the simply the best !!(well thats one opinion)

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Nice thanks Spiritpyre...

[BlueMe]

He he... as i was saying about these extensions..
http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/win..._clean_menu.htm

If page gone...
Keyword

Four great

http://www.infopacke...+newsletter.htm

This post has been edited by BlueMe: 14 January 2006 - 06:14 AM

[spiritpyre]

thanks guys nice to know they're useful

[Sphinx-cn]

MainSoft has some nice extensions.. haven't noticed them being mentioned

AttrMenu (version 1.0)
AttrMenu is a Windows Explorer Context Menu extension allowing direct access to a file's attributes. Much easier than using the Properties dialog box.


ExecParm (version 1.3)
ExecParm is another Context Menu extension for Windows Explorer. It allows you to run a program with parameters on the command line. Seems useless? Without ExecParm you'll have to go to the Start | Run... menu, remember the path for the executable and then enter the command line parameters. You'll see, ExecParm is much simpler, especially when used in conjunction with Clipname.


ClipName (version 1.2.3)
ClipName is also a Context Menu extension copying the full pathname of the right-clicked file to the clipboard. This new version supports copy of multiple filenames either as a space separated list or as a CRLF separated list. DOS filenames (8.3) can now also be copied as well as the URL encoded name and the UNC name for remote files. Version 1.2 now supports a Copy command for filenames without including any path, URL Encoding for multiple selections and <WORD> style encoding for Microsoft Word, Microsoft OneNote,...

http://www.mainsoft....n/downloads.htm

[donbi]

hi spiritpyre,

Thank you for these greats extensions.

I'm using The "Hidden Files Toggle" and "Files Extension Toggle".

I would like to know if you could add a registry setting for the key used to refresh because this key is dependant of the user language interface...

In french ui, "R&efresh" is "Ac&tualiser" so the key used to refresh after the SHIFT+F10 would be "t" and not "e"... so a registry setting would be great !

thanks

donbi

[Djé]

@spiritpyre:

Thanks for those great extensions. Here are a couple of issue resolving:

- [edited] As for the refresh Hotkey (e), I'd go with Donbi saying that we, 'localized' aliens, have different hotkey for similar functions (in the french case, the 'e' doesn't refresh anything but opens the 'customize' tab of the properties dialog). That is specifically true for those underscored letters hotkey like this 'e'.
I just read somewhere else that you tried the F5 key and it didn't work (I just tried also and neither did it here). So yes, a Registry entry for that would be much needed so we can localize and use these extensions.


- second thing, IMHO, in the 'Add RegSvr32 & UnregSvr32.reg' file of your beloved 'ShExt DLL Package 1.0', the \" (escaped dblequote) are misplaced :
@="\"regsvr32.exe\" %1" should read @="regsvr32.exe \"%1\""
You don't need them arround the regsvr32.exe but depending on where is the dll, you might need it arround its path (%1).

Anyway, Thanks again for that great stuff.

This post has been edited by Djé: 17 February 2006 - 03:35 AM

[spiritpyre]

donbi/Djé - done and done. - see first post, just got done updating everything.

and Djé - thanks for catching that error and letting me know, its been corrected.

To set the "refresh' hotkey for your local, you need to set this reg *value like so:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;--------
;-------- Set local "refresh key"
;-------- (only 1st letter will be used; case insensitive)
;-------- (only alpha-numeric digits will work)
;--------
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SpiritPyre Extensions]
"Refresh Key"="t"

*Also note that I changed the main subkey that everything is under as of v1.3, because I thought that "SpiritPyre Extensions" 1) is more descriptive and 2) would be easier to find/remember if people were looking for it in regedit 3) a lot less likely to overlap with another developer's conventions


I still hope to get rid of this shift+10+{e/t/?} junk eventually but I've been to busy lately and haven't even had time to check here in a while...

This post has been edited by spiritpyre: 25 February 2006 - 12:16 AM