How to show Windows Explorer context (right click) menu?

Question

I want to show the Windows Explorer context menu.

I don\'t want to add my application to it, I just want to display it inside my application.

Answer 1

http://www.ffuts.org/blog/right-click-context-menus-with-qt/

Getting right-clicks to popup a context menu is pretty straightforward in Qt. There are just a couple of things to watch out for…

 // myWidget is any QWidget-derived class
 myWidget->setContextMenuPolicy(Qt::CustomContextMenu);
 connect(myWidget, SIGNAL(customContextMenuRequested(const QPoint&)),
     this, SLOT(ShowContextMenu(const QPoint&)));

If, on the other hand, you're looking for something like "Windows explorer integration" or "Windows Shell integration", here's a good (albeit non-QT specific) example:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15171/Simple-shell-context-menu

The key is implementing these two Windows shell interfaces:

• IContextMenu

• IShellExtInt