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Win-32's explorer: Context sensitive menu for a file type.


The goal of this document is to help you customizing your WINDOWS
explorer environment.

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You will be able with the following steps to add some features to the
explorer when double clicking on a file with a specific extension,
and to implement a context sensitive menu when you 'right-click' on a
file with the same specific extension.

1- Start the Explorer.
2- Go in the menu: 'View', and select the item: 'Options'.
3- Select the folder: 'File Types'.
4- Click on the button: 'New Type'.
5- Click on the button: 'Change Icon'
6- Select the icon you would like to associate to this extension.
(Progress provides a series of them in '%DLC%/GUI/ADEICON' for
instance)
7- Type a description for this extension (My private files: .xxx)
8- Type in the fill-in: 'Associate Extension' the extension of the
file type on which you would like to implement this features.
(xxx for instance).
9- In the fill-in: 'Content type MIME', nothing is requred.
10- check the available options provided at the bottom of the screen
- Enable Quick View.
- Always shows extension.
- Confirm open after download.

Now we have to configure the actions you would like to provide in the
files having your extension

11- Click on the button: 'New' to add an action
12- Type in the fill-in: 'Action' a description of the action you
would like to perform.
(This is what appears in the context sensitive menu when you
right click on files with extension xxx in my case)
13- Type in the fill-in: 'Application used to perform action' the
command line that points to the executable used to open a file
with the extension you specified.
(Something like C:\81C\DLC\bin\_prowin.exe -param "%1" if you
wish to open those files in the progress procedure editor...)

You are done