Hello, this is actually two questions is one post:

1. I understand that I can edit the windows registry (somewhere in hkey_classes) to create a single explorer context menu item that can launch my perl script. Is there a way to create context item with sumbenus or icons - sort of like winzip or 7zip has? I'm thinking that this requires some dll trickery, that is beyond my understanding - is something like that possible with perl?

2. Suppose I create that single menu item that launches my script (thru the registry). When I select multiple files in explorer and select the context menu item, it launches multiple instances of my script, each for one file. What should I do to drive all the arguments into one instance of my program (again, like the zip thingies do)? I have worked around that by putting my script in the "Send To" folder in the past, but that one has also its drawbacks.

In reply to Hooking scripts to context menu items in windows explorer by pht

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