I've followed the faq here and got it to work briefly under opus 9.002.
I now have 9003 installed.
The problem now is that i dont see any context menu items anymore when right pressing a *.rar file. I have the VFSP plugin enabled, see rar.dll and unrar.dll file in the VFSPlugins directory. Furthermore, a rar type file doesnt display the rar icon associated with it anymore. It now displays a default type icon, although when i edit the rar filesystem type, it can see the correct icon association.
Any ideas why the context menu's and filetype icons arent displayed? I have Winrar installed but this didnt make it stop working perfectly earlier.
Just to eliminate one thing, the RAR files you're trying with are in a normal directory and not a "virtual" one like Desktop, right? (The context menu items won't be displayed in folders handled by Explorer, since they run Opus commands. There's a workaround for that if you need it.)
If you create a toolbar button which runs this command:
FileType EDIT
then select a RAR file and click the button, does the RAR filetype open up? (Wait a couple of seconds after the filetype list appears. The RAR filetype should open in a second window once Opus finishes reading the list of filetypes.)
Erm, the rar files are in a normal directory, altough i would like to have the context menu items for rar files located in the "Desktop" virtual folder also. I happen to save files in that location a lot due to the annoying common (save/open) dialog windows in Explorer. (Isnt Opus able to replace these?!)
anyway, the FILETYPE Edit button does exactly what it's meant to do, it opens the rar file type without problems.
Furthermore, the VFS Plugin seems to work since the left double click event opens the rar file in the current lister.
How come the file type asociation at the visual level went wrong altough underneath its working fine?
What do you recommend? Remove and create a new rar filetype?
I checked the file type again and pressed Change, see the image below where again the file type icon isnt what it should be;
I also checked the /dopusdata\filetypes folder. It displays two entries for rar type files. One is called rarfile.oxr and the other WinRAR.oxr. Both are attached to this post. rarfile.zip (717 Bytes)
If you point RegEdit at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.rar, what's the default value set to? rarfile or WinRar?
It's possible to convert the commands into ones which will work in Explorer, using dopusrt.exe, but it's a bit messy too. If the Desktop is the only folder where you care about this then you might find it better to navigate to /desktopdir instead, which is the real folder containing your desktop items. Opus will handle that by itself. As a bonus, it isn't cluttered up with other icons that you most likely don't want to see in the file display (Recycle Bin, Computer, etc.).
Opus doesn't patch the common dialogs in other programs. AFAIK there isn't a safe way to do so without introducing potential problems, but I have never looked into it in detail.
Ok, ive checked the registry and the entry was configured correctly.
So in order to move this issue forward, i deleted the rar filetype and removed the custom oxr files from the filesystem and re-created the rar file type.
could you please give more detail on how to solve the problem ? This particular problem also happened to me. Just suddenly.
I tried to delete the system file type of rar and create a new one . I've check the registry and everything was fine with value point to Winrar Archiver. ....
it's very annoying living without winrar context menu . please help .
. please help .