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It'll invoke the context menu of a file-system/virtual file or folder, without opening the explorer window.

DOWNLOAD ShellContextMenu.ahk.

I love these tricks you do with COM

Thanks

Thanks Sean!
That's what I actually was looking for

I've played with this for most of the afternoon now and I've looked at a lot of incomplete pieces of related information, but I can't make this work with a group of selected files rather than just one item.

Has anyone managed to expand on this to work with a set of files? If so, how did you mange it?

Is it possible to add a portion of ahk scripting to the right click context menu?

For example:
Let's say I have a script called copypaste.ahk that copies and pastes something into another program. I would want to highlight a word and rightclick, then see an option there called copypaste where it can do the copy/paste operation.

Is that possible yet?

You're a bit vague on what you'd like to do. If you meant the explorer's context menu, you can do it by adding Shell Menu item, or by writing a ContextMenuHandler dll. If you meant the context menu of this script, you can do it without dll even at runtime, but I have no desire to release any further work on this. You may tweak the script yourself to your need as all needed ones for that were already put to the script.

How do you think Explorer does it? You can exactly do the same with the script.

Once again, you have provided a great script for the community. I realize this is a bit old, but I just wanted to say thanks.

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Can this be modified to directly launch a specific menuitem of the context menu.

Similar to SHObjectProperties

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Steve F AKA Superfraggle

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You can use InvokeVerb(Ex) or DoIt for that.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787816.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774170.aspx

There exist examples utilizing them in the forum. You may search.

Could someone please post a small ahk example showing how to utilize this script as I cannot get it to work, my app just loses focus and then regains it.

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Cheers

Thank you for the scripts. I've added them to my C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\Lib directory. I'm using the function to first invoke the context menu for a given file, then send keyboard inputs into the menu to navigate to the desired choice. Here's the code:



Problems:

1. The context menu for test_file.txt pops up next to the mouse cursor, but the "Send" commands do not go into it. I can manually select the option I want and it works though (in the attached pic I manually pressed down x 12, right, down x 6 to highlight "copy content."

2. Not all context menu items are included. The second pic shows the menu when I manually right-click on test_file.txt (incl. FastCopy, Scan with Rising, a-squared,...) - however, this is just fyi, as the menu I want is present.

Any advice would be appreciated - I'm new to AHK so even if I'm leaving out something obvious, I might not realize it.

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Hardware: 1.8 GHz laptop with 4 GB ram, Windows XP/SP3
Software: Prevx, Privatefirewall, KeyScrambler.

The Send part will never run until the menu is closed. You have to use SetTimer for that.

I suppose there was a problem to load/communicate with the corresponding ContextMenuHandler dlls. I can't tell the details unless I test them myself.

Just to follow up, I ended up using the status bar text to access the FileMenu Tools. However, I used ShellContextMenu for a script to find what's locking my drive, for example, when a flash drive refuses to eject. Below is the main script - I use AltGr+U followed by the letter of the drive I want to unlock. I'm using WhoLockMe for the underlying unlocker, but Unlocker is good too (both are free):



Here's my WhoLockMe.ahk script with SetTimer. It uses MenuSelectItem function from the linked post by Lexikos with UseMouse = True. (With UseMouse = False the function sometimes selects the context menu item above the one I specify...)



Not sure you need the WhoLockExit subroutine in this case, but I needed it to access submenus with some other context menu scripts. Again, this seems to work fine for me, but I have only used it a little bit...

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Hardware: 1.8 GHz laptop with 4 GB ram, Windows XP/SP3
Software: Prevx, Privatefirewall, KeyScrambler.

I don't know how you use it, however, you can obtain the status bar help text of menu item using

Just FYI.