With check-box mode on, I notice that commands executed from the context menu only act on the highlighted selection while the same action from the toolbar will act on those entries that are checked.
Is this standard or can be overridden ?
I am using detail view.
Standard I think, although I don't use checkbox mode much myself so my memory of what's possible with it isn't great.
There are commands you can run which transfer the checkboxes to the selection (or vice versa) but you'd have to remember to run them first (or build them in to all your context menu items, which would be a pain).
Hmmm, I was actually cheking it out because the DOPUS zip routine doesn't allow mutiple zip selection for extraction and presents only ADD options in such cases.
But I guess that is another discussion.
Opus extracts multiple zips just fine, unless I've misunderstood what you mean.
There's a video or two showing it doing multiple zips in my guide (see my sig).
The DLL extension that embeds in my context menu only displays ADD TO ZIP commands when I select mutiple files ..... including zips
Make a toolbar button (or hotkey, or context menu item for the .zip filetype) which runs this:
Copy EXTRACT=sub HEREOr this if you want to leave the files selected for easy deletion after extraction:
Copy EXTRACT=sub HERE
@nodeselect
That will let you extract multiple selected zips (each into a folder named after the archive).
It's probably worth removing the default Extract to XYZ item if you do that, which can be done via Preferences - Zip Files.
PS: I filed a report with GPSoftware about the default extract menu not appearing with multiple zips selected as it ought to.