Windows资源管理器右键单击文件和文件夹的上下文菜单

Question

my question is similar into this , but that didn't gave all info I need, or I didn't understand that very well.

I want that in file context menu there would be option to notify my app.

I added keys:

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Classes/*/shell/MyApp/command::"C:\\path\\test.exe" "%1"
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Classes/Folder/shell/MyApp/command::"C:\\path\\test.exe" "%1"

Code of test:

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
        std::cout << argv[i] << "\r\n";
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

This works fine, but... If I mark a few files/folders and right click and select my added option, many test apps launches.

This is not the behaviour I want, I want that all paths would be passed into single instance of my app as list of argv 's, does anyone knows how to do that?

BTW. I'm coding with C++ but I think it isn't matter as it is business with Windows shell.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think the right way is to write ContextMenuHandler and register it as shell extension.

You can find lot of samples like here , here or here

Context menu handlers are registered under key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

There are similar questions on SO already:

How to pass in multiple file/folder paths via a right-click event (verb) to an executable?

How to Pass MULTIPLE filenames to a Context Menu Shell Command?

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