Adding to the Internet Explorer context menu

**bennyandthejets** · 04-24-2004

I've read a lot of stuff about shell extensions but I still have no idea how to add things to the Internet Explorer context menu. For example, when a link is right clicked, I would like the context menu to have the option of executing my program with the link in the command line.

Any ideas on how to do this?

**anonytmouse** · 04-24-2004

http://www.google.com/search?q=add+c...ernet+explorer

**bennyandthejets** · 04-24-2004

Cheers anony.

**bennyandthejets** · 04-24-2004

I haven't been able to find anything that will actually do what I want. There's info on how to execute a program, but not about how to pass the link. And what about retrieving the COM interface to the browser? There's nothing about that.

Has anyone ever done something like this?

**anonytmouse** · 04-24-2004

The link can probably be obtained from the script page using:

Code:

var oWindow = window.external.menuArguments;
var oLink = oWindow.event.srcElement;
var sHref = oLink.href;

As for getting the browser interface, you may want to look at browser helper objects which run in the context of the browser.

Alternatively, you can enumerate internet explorer instances and find the instance that matches the event from an external application.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;176792
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ellwindows.asp

**bennyandthejets** · 04-24-2004

How can I run my program from a script? The context menu scripts I've seen don't seem to run anything. Eg:

Code:

<HTML>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" defer> 
var parentwin = external.menuArguments;
var doc = parentwin.document;

var GRlink = window.external.menuArguments.event.srcElement;
if (GRlink == "[object]") {
var GRlink = window.external.menuArguments.event.srcElement.parentElement;
}
if (GRlink == "[object]") {
var GRlink = window.external.menuArguments.event.srcElement.src;
}
if (GRlink == null) {
var GRlink = window.external.menuArguments.location;
}

//var GRurl = GRlink + "-getrightbrowse";
var GRurl = GRlink + "-getrightdownload";
//var GRurl = GRlink;

parentwin.location.href = GRurl;

</SCRIPT>
</HTML>

That is the code to make a download go through Getright. However, I can't really see how they call getright.

**Fordy** · 04-25-2004

You can open a Shell.Application object and use it's (probably undocumented) method ShellExecute

Code:

<SCRIPT language="JScript">
	try
	{
		var oShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
		var strLnk = window.external.menuArguments.event.srcElement;
		oShell.ShellExecute("BennysApp.exe",strLnk);
	}
	catch(e)
	{
		alert("Error - " + e.description);
	}
</SCRIPT>

Just run the app and pass the href as an argument

**bennyandthejets** · 04-25-2004

Thanks I'll give it a shot.

**Mithoric** · 04-25-2004

I thought that there was a registry key for this? I remember finding it when I was manually removing some stupid adware once.. that was IE 5 though I think it's probably the same still.

**bennyandthejets** · 04-25-2004

Yep there's a registry key. In the key you refer to a script somewhere on your computer, which can then execute a program.

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