XYplorer Beta Club
klownboy wrote:The purpose of this script is to call out specific menus when the user right clicks on the list panel white space. The menu which comes up is dependent on the file type of the current file. So you could set it up such that if you had a jpg or png file selected (i.e <curitem>), a menu with 4 or 5 different programs to select from would display, you'd choose one and the file would be opened in that program. So it similar to a right clicking on the file itself to bring up a context menu, but in this case the user is clicking the white space. I mentioned coming up with something similar to this here http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 15#p122111 If no file is selected, the script brings up a default menu which can be anything the user wants (i.e, it could be as simple as bringing up the Favorite Files, Favorite Folders, call your own menu, or something more elaborate). Remember if a file is currently selected, but you'd rather just bring up the default menu rather than the specific file-type menu of a highlighted file, you can simply normal left click on white and then right click. You can also easily set the menu up such that some file types programs would immediately be run in a program of choice. For example, you could have it set such that if you have a single GIF file selected, it would bring up all the folder's GIFs in TheQwerty's 'HTMLImagePreview.xys' viewer. You could even set it up such that the script does something special if a folder is selected.
3 examples of the menus which surface if you right clicked with a certain file types selected along with an example default menu:No, it's nothing new as far as scripting goes, but setting up a script to run when you right click on white space is quite easy and can be very handy. So, why not improve it, make it a bit smarter by expanding its capabilities. I call the script "WhiteSpaceCtxMenu.xys". To use, the 2 lines in the XYplorer.ini file which have to change are:Obviously this is not the type of script a user can simply plop into his script folder and use. This is more of an idea and skeleton script you can use to arrive at your own. You have to take a few minutes an substitute your own programs to run based on the file types and any new files types as you wish. What I show here are just examples and certainly not my final script. I'm finding it easier than using the 'real' context menu or even PFAs since it it seems to be less clicking in many cases. If the file you'd like to run a program on is currently selected simply right click on white to bring up the the specific file type menu. If the file isn't currently selected you simply select with the left click and then move the mouse slightly and right click. If you'd rather bring up the default menu when there's a file currently hi-lighted, just left click on white (to un-select) and then follow with a right click.Code: Select all
CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=6 CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite_Script=load "<xyscripts>\WhiteSpaceCtxMenu.xys"I hope you can get some use out of it or maybe some new, additional or better ideas will spawn from it. Once set-up, I'm finding easier to use than the normal context menu.Code: Select all
/*** image file menu ***/ $image = <<<IMAGE "Thumbnails in new Instance|:conf"; $jpgPath = getpathcomponent("<curitem>", "path"); run """<xy>"" /new ""$jpgPath"" /win=normal,10,10,1900,1050 /script=""::if(get('View') != '6') {#308};loadlayout('thumbs');open 'D:\Tools\AutoHotkey\AHK scripts\TB_XY_hide.ahk';"""; end(1); } "ImageEye|D:\Graphics\Image Eye\Image Eye.exe"; Openwith "D:\Graphics\Image Eye\Image Eye.exe"; end(1); "Irfanview|D:\Graphics\IrfanView\i_view32.exe"; openwith "D:\Graphics\IrfanView\i_view32.exe";end(1); "Greenfish Icon Editor|D:\Graphics\Greenfish Icon Editor Pro\gfie64.exe" openwith "D:\Graphics\Greenfish Icon Editor Pro\gfie64.exe"; IMAGE; /*** video file menu ***/ $vid = <<<VID "BD Rebuilder|D:\DVD\BD Rebuilder\BDRB.exe" open "D:\DVD\BD Rebuilder\BDRB.exe"; "ConvertXtoDvd|D:\DVD\ConvertX\ConvertXtoDvd.exe" open "D:\DVD\ConvertX\ConvertXtoDvd.exe"; "EMDB|D:\DVD\EMDB\EMDB.exe" open "D:\DVD\EMDB\EMDB.exe"; "ImgBurn|D:\DVD\ImgBurn\ImgBurn.exe" open "D:\DVD\ImgBurn\ImgBurn.exe"; "MPC-HC|D:\DVD\MPC HomeCinema (x64)\mpc-hc64.exe" openwith "D:\DVD\MPC HomeCinema (x64)\mpc-hc64.exe"; "TMPGEnc|C:\Program Files (x86)\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4\TMPGEncAuthoringWorks4.exe" open "C:\Program Files (x86)\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4\TMPGEncAuthoringWorks4.exe"; "Video Joiner|D:\DVD\Boilsoft Video Joiner\EZMerge.exe" open "D:\DVD\Boilsoft Video Joiner\EZMerge.exe"; "VLC|D:\DVD\VLC\vlc.exe" openwith "D:\DVD\VLC\vlc.exe"; VID; /*** text file menu ***/ $txt = <<<DOC "NotePad++|D:\Tools\NotePad++\notepad++.exe" openwith "D:\Tools\NotePad++\notepad++.exe"; "PSPad|D:\Tools\PSPad\PSPad.exe" openwith "D:\Tools\PSPad\PSPad.exe"; "Notepad|C:\Windows\notepad.exe" openwith "C:\Windows\notepad.exe"; DOC; /*** Folder menu ***/ $dir = <<<FOLDER "Open Folder in new instance Thumbnail view|:viewthumbs" run """<xy>"" /new ""$folder"" /win=normal,10,10,1900,1060 /script=""::if(get('View') != '6') {#308};loadlayout('thumbs');""", , 0, 0; "Favorite Folders|:favs"; #550; end(1); "Favorite Files|:favfiles"; #564; end(1); FOLDER; /*** Copy/Move menu ***/ $CopyMove = <<<COMO "© across|:syncbrowse" #804; "&MOVE across|:syncbrowse" #803; "&Dumpster|:moveto" moveto "V:\Repository\Misc\Dumpster"; COMO; if (exists("<curitem>") == 1) { if(gettokenindex("<curext>", "jpg|gif|png|ico", '|', 'i')) {load "$image;<crlf>-<crlf>$CopyMove", ,s; end(1)} //load Image and CopyMove menus together if(gettokenindex("<curext>", "avi|mp4|wmv", '|', 'i')) {load "$vid", , s; end(1)} //load video menu if(gettokenindex("<curext>", "ini|txt|nfo|inf|reg|ps1|vbs", '|', 'i')) {load "$txt", , s; end(1)} //load textfile menu if(getpathcomponent("<curitem>", "ext") == "xys") {load("<curitem>"); end(1);} //no menu - example showing how you can automatically run an XY script on a right click on white if(getpathcomponent("<curitem>", "ext") == "ahk") {openwith "D:\Tools\NotePad++\notepad++.exe"; end(1);} //no menu - example to open an AHK file for editing } elseif(exists("<curitem>") == 2) { perm $folder = "<curitem>"; load "$dir", , s; end(1) } #564; end(1); //load Favorite Files, Favorite Folders, or whatever script you want here if the above conditions/comparisons are not met "_Terminate"; unset $folder; //you don't need this line or "_Terminate"; if you don't use variable $folder above
Thanks,
Ken
Edit1: Modified the script to use SC gettokenindex rather than LikeI comparisons as per PeterH suggestion.
Edit2: Modified the "load" statement that uses the variable '$image' to show how to display 2 menus together (i.e., the Image menu and Copy move menu) as one menu with a separator between them
I don't have those two lines that are suppose to be edited in the xyplorer.ini file, in my xyplorer.ini file ?
This is great because I always wanted to take the custom toolbar and all the default buttons and put them in a context menu such as this.
