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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?
Cheers anony.
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?
The link can probably be obtained from the script page using:
As for getting the browser interface, you may want to look at browser helper objects which run in the context of the browser.Code:var oWindow = window.external.menuArguments;
var oLink = oWindow.event.srcElement;
var sHref = oLink.href;
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
How can I run my program from a script? The context menu scripts I've seen don't seem to run anything. Eg:
That is the code to make a download go through Getright. However, I can't really see how they call getright.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>
You can open a Shell.Application object and use it's (probably undocumented) method ShellExecute
Just run the app and pass the href as an argumentCode:<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>
Thanks I'll give it a shot.
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.
Yep there's a registry key. In the key you refer to a script somewhere on your computer, which can then execute a program.