{"id":39213,"date":"2004-05-24T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/24\/extending-the-internet-explorer-context-menu\/"},"modified":"2004-05-24T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T07:03:00","slug":"extending-the-internet-explorer-context-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040524-00\/?p=39213","title":{"rendered":"Extending the Internet Explorer context menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\nIn a comment<\/a>,\n\nDarrell Norton<\/a> asked\nfor a “View in Mozilla” option for Internet Explorer.\n<\/p>\n

\nYou can already do this.\n<\/p>\n

\nInternet Explorer’s\n\ncontext menu extension mechanism<\/a>\nhas been in MSDN for years.\nLet me show you how you can create this extension yourself.\n<\/p>\n

\nFirst, create the following registry key:\n<\/p>\n

\n[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\MenuExt\\View in Mozilla]\n@=REG_SZ:\"C:\\some\\path\\to\\ViewInMozilla.htm\"\nContexts=REG_DWORD:1\n<\/pre>\n
\nOf course, you need to change C:\\some\\path\\to to an actual path.\n<\/p>\n
\nHow did I know to do this?\nBecause steps 1, 2 and 3 in the “Implementation Steps” section tell\nme (1) what key to create, (2) what to set the default value to, and\n(3) what to set Contexts to.\nI chose a Context value of 1, which means “Default”.\n<\/p>\n
\nOkay, now to write the script ViewInMozilla.htm.\nWell, the documentation says that I can access context\nfrom the\n\nmenuArguments<\/a>\nproperty of the\n\nexternal<\/a> object.\nSo let’s start with that.\n<\/p>\n
\n<SCRIPT>\nalert(external.menuArguments);\n<\/SCRIPT>\n<\/pre>\n
\nOkay, let’s run this puppy.  Launch IE, right-click on a blank\nspace in the web page, select “View in Mozilla”, and you get…\n<\/p>\n
\n    [object]\n<\/pre>\n
\nWoo-hoo!  This is a major accomplishment: Something happened at all.\nDoing things in small steps makes it easy to identify where a problem is.\nIf we had run full steam ahead to completion\nand then it didn’t work, we wouldn’t have\nknown whether it was due to a bug in the script, a bad registration, a bad\nfilename…\n<\/p>\n
\nNow that I have the menu arguments, I can use that\nto suck out information about the item that the context menu\napplies to.  Let’s try this:\n<\/p>\n
\n<SCRIPT>\nalert(external.menuArguments.document.URL);\n<\/SCRIPT>\n<\/pre>\n
\nWoo-hoo, now it gives me the URL.  Almost there. All that’s\nleft to do is to run a program with that URL as the command line\nparameter.\n<\/p>\n
\n<SCRIPT>\nvar shell = new ActiveXObject(\"WScript.Shell\");\nshell.run(\"mozilla \\\"\" + external.menuArguments.document.URL + \"\\\"\");\n<\/SCRIPT>\n<\/pre>\n
\nMission accomplished.\n<\/p>\n
\nNow you too can create Internet Explorer context menu extensions.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn fact, go ahead and do it, since Darrell asked for it:\nCreate an Internet Explorer\ncontext menu extension that operates on anchors and opens the\nlinked-to page in Mozilla.\n<\/p>\n
\n(Bonus:\n\nTony Schreiner<\/a>\ncooked up\n\nsomething similar for zooming<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a comment, Darrell Norton asked for a “View in Mozilla” option for Internet Explorer. You can already do this. Internet Explorer’s context menu extension mechanism has been in MSDN for years. Let me show you how you can create this extension yourself. First, create the following registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\MenuExt\\View in Mozilla] @=REG_SZ:”C:\\some\\path\\to\\ViewInMozilla.htm” Contexts=REG_DWORD:1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-39213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"
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