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[PaulR]

Is there way to integrate a program into the right-click menu in Rox (in the same way as Windows programs 'integrate to shell'). ?

Specifically I'd like to add XArchive so I can right-click and choose 'add to archive' (right-clicking and choosing 'open with' XArchive doesn't work as I'd hoped )

[`f00]

That is one of the reasons I use xfe a lot more than rox. Working with archives is dead simple, fast and intuitive (also for open/view/edit other file types, kybd shortcuts and so forth).

Surely there are ways to get rox to do what you want how you wish .. and perhaps someone else (ball rolled ) will come along with rox guidance.

Merely a thought to try xfe - by the way, it uses fltk rather than gtk (so you still have a working fm even if gtk somehow gets broken )..

[R-S-H]

Hi.

Create a empty script (right-click into a opened rox window), name it to 'add2archive' and insert: the code below into this script

[don570]

The method of RSH will work but it lacks a menu icon. Rox solves this
by recognizing a special type of folder. I think Rox calls it a 'AppInfo file' folder in its manual.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/Manual/Manual/Manual.html#appdirs

To see examples of these folders go to /usr/local/apps/

Look inside the folders you see there.

There are typically three files inside the folder

1) description when mousing over folder
2) a script which can be very complex , but typically is very simple
and just launches an app. It is called 'AppRun'
3) usually there is an icon (typically a link to an icon) that is hidden.
It must be called '.DirIcon'.


So just make a right click menu item by linking to this special rox
folder. The link's name is what shows in the right click menu.

.

[R-S-H]

Yes, don570 is right!

That's why I've made the Add2Archive-0.0.1.pet.

So, you just can install this package and everything should work out of the box.

[PaulR]

Thanks all! I guessed it would be possible... and lots of useful info there to play with

One other related thing - see image3 in R-S-H's post, I always have to resize this window to see the filenames, is there a way to overcome that annoyance?

Thanks again

Paul

[CatDude]

Hello PaulR

[PaulR]

Cheers catdude, that's one way of fixing it I guess!

Might be better to add some code to write out a file (or add a line to an existing config if any?) when closing and reload it when opening such that the window size is remembered but I kmow nothing about coding for GTK and would probably break it.

Paul

[disciple]

Does Puppy not include Pupzip (a wrapper for xarchive) anymore?