Registry Object Help

[Steven]

Hi All,

I'm looking in to the possibility of making a compression utility and wondered how I would go about amending the right-click menu to zip or unzip any selected files.

I know how to associate file types with my program top open them and how to retrieve the location of the file from the command line, but how would I do this from the right-click menu...?

I know it has something to do with the registry but not sure what I would need to edit?

How would I deal with multiple files that have been selected for zipping?

Thanks in advance!

Steve

[Steven]

OK i've worked out how to add items to the right-click menu with the YASO object. Only problem is that when more than one file is highlighted and "Zip these files" is chosen more than one instance of the programme is opened.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,


Steve

[Steven]

Anyone able to help? I'll rephrase my question in case i'm not being clear enough:-

I've made a little compression utility but am having trouble with the file associations for it. I can associate the file type (e.g. .joe) to my app and double clicking a .joe file will open my application and load the file.

The trouble i'm having is when I want to zip multiple files. I have added an option to the right-click menu of all file types that says 'Add to zip' obviously I then want to open one instance of my program and add these to a zip file. At the moment it is opening multiple instances of my program! Very annoying and I can't work out how to fix this. Even looking at other keys (like the winzip one) in the registry hasn't helped me figure out how other apps do it.


Steve

[Spryz]

Is it possible for you to show an example of how you associate your application with a file please ?

If you could upload an example for associating a .mmf2devexample file that would be awsome.

Sorry i am not able to help you with multiple files.

[Steven]

Link to post in File Archive for you

[Czentnar]

I think this topic is very useful. (Sphax helped me and it worked very well.)

[Steven]

Thanks Czentnar I read that and it helped me get to where I am now... but as I said above I need to know how to handle multiple file paths being opened up in only one instance of my program