Windows Explorer Context Menu

[R.Marquez]

Ok, so there might be a way (albeit, not for the faint of heart).

The one example code I was able to get a hold of, for the Shell
extension, was from 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).  Looking around the
source I saw the Explorer shell code.  However, it seems to do what I
want by using some MSVC++ header files, which I do not have (and
probably would not know what to do with any way).  So, for now, I am
going to have to settle with a workaround (right click on the folder,
send it to the util(s) and get a file open dialog box, instead of
selecting the files straight from Explorer).

However, I decided to post this as a pointer in case someone, with
more experience, know-how, and resources,  is interested in pursuing
this a little further.  Maybe someone will come up with a nice
"Pythonic" way of adding Explorer Shell Extensions, and share the
wealth with the rest of us.

In any case, thank you very much for your responses.

-Ruben

Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1040054131.10964.python-list at python.org>...
> On 16 Dec 2002, Syver Enstad wrote:
> 
> > ny_r_marquez at yahoo.com (R.Marquez) writes:
> > 
> > > Thanks for the reply.  However, what I need is a way to pass _all_
> > > selected items from Windows Explorer to my program, not just one.  It
> > > seems that there is no easy way to do this.  Think of how, for
> > > example, Winzip dos it.  You select all the files you want it to
> > > archive, right click, select the Winzip option, and it does it.  This
> > > tells me that it is doable, but can it be done with Python?  If so,
> > > how?
> > 
> > This involves shell programming and as far as I know you can't make an
> > all python solution at this time. Get yourself a book on shell
> > programming f.eks. from Wrox, and see how you can do it with C/C++. I
> > know that win32all has some support for shell programming but I don't
> > think it is enough to write a shell extension.
> 
> Another approach is to use Thomas Heller's ctypes module - once you figure
> out which Windows APIs to call then you might be able to do it from Python
> with ctypes.
> 
> -Dave