contextmenu

How would one go about adding a submenu item to the windows explorer context menu (like for example 7-Zip does) for a Java application? I am aware of two ways to do it. The fancy way is to write a windows shell extension, which is how powerarchiver, winzip etc do it I believe (this involves running code to determine what the context menu items will be dependent on the file chosen). The simple way, for simple functionality, is you can add an entry in the registry : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<file type>\shell\<display text>\command Where <file type> is the files that this context menu should apply to i

I am trying to write a google chrome extension where I use a contextmenu. This contextmenu is available on editable elements only (input texts for example). When the contextmenu is clicked and executed I would like to retrieve in the callback function the element (the input text) on which the contextmenu has been executed in order to update the value associated to this input text. Here is the skeleton of my extension: function mycallback(info, tab) { // missing part that refers to the question: // how to retrieve elt which is assumed to be // the element on which the contextMenu has been

I am trying to create entries on the Chrome context menu based on what is selected. I found several questions about this on Stackoverflow, and for all of them the answer is: use a content script with a "mousedown" listener that looks at the current selection and creates the Context Menu. I implemented this, but it does not always work. Sometimes all the log messages say that the context menu was modified as I wanted, but the context menu that appears is not updated. Based on this I suspected it was a race condition: sometimes chrome starts rendering the context menu before the code ran