Right click context menu 'new' is missing items

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Hi there,

since I've upgraded to DOpus 13 I'm missing the 'new Bitmap' entry in the lister context menu. Everything else is there. The windows context menu ie on the desktop shows the entry.
DOpus 'new'-menu shows:
Folder
Shortcut
Excel
PowerPoint
Word
TXT
ZIP

So I went to:
Customize / Toolbars / Context Menu / Folder / Edit / Lister-Context menu (I hope these are the right terms in English)

The entry said:
FileType CONTEXTMENU=Directory\Background

I changed it to:
FileType CONTEXTMENU=Directory\Background CONTEXTOPTIONS=windowsonly
-> nothing changed

I changed it to:
FileType CONTEXTMENU=Directory\Background CONTEXTOPTIONS "INCLUDE=.bmp,.png,.txt,.docx,.xlsx,.pptx"
-> As expected, the menu lost the upper part. But the lower changed to:
Excel
PowerPoint
Word
TXT
ZIP
->Not only are bmp and png still missing, also the others are in a completely different order.

I changed it to:
FileType CONTEXTMENU=Directory\Background CONTEXTOPTIONS "INCLUDE=.bmp"
-> menu shows one blank space. Clicking it does nothing.

After that I just added a simple button to a standard toolbar for testing.
FileType NEW=.txt -> creates a new Textfile
FileType NEW=.bmp -> nothing happens.

Sooo... I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

3

Thanks for the report.

I don't think this is anything specific to Opus 13. It looks like in Windows 11 the Shell New entry for bitmap files is hard-coded in File Explorer, rather than coming from the registry like all other filetypes.

Seems very odd Microsoft would have made this change after so many years, but that's Microsoft for you...

In the next update we'll do the same thing in Opus.

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4

Thanks for the quick response.

Yes, I did upgrade to win11 like half a year before upgrading dopus. And yes... it may be the case that I've overlooked the missing button in that time.

btw it's not only paint, it's basically all picture formats. .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .ico, just to name a few.

So by now there is no known fix or workaround?

Cheers,
Rico

5

The other picture formats aren't standard in Windows. Are they listed for you in the New menu in File Explorer?

8

They were not.

I've just wrote a .reg and added the .png to the windows context menu -> works in windows, not in dopus.

Edited the dopus context menu to:
FileType CONTEXTMENU=Directory\Background CONTEXTOPTIONS=windowsonly
Now I get the new / .png in dopus as well.

Tried the same with .bmp, even it has already been in the windows context menu, but adding the key didn't do anything.

9

I don't quite understand, you say things like PNG/JPG etc are missing from the New menu in Opus, but why would they be there if they're not also in Explorer?

As I said, Bitmap seems to be hardcoded now so we'll do that too for Windows 11.

10

Ohhh, I think I misapprehended, how the contextoptions work.

Do I see it right, that things like "INCLUDE=.bmp", "EXCLUDE=.doc" all refer to the windows menu?

So include just means 'take the following items from the windows menu and hide all others'
And exclude means 'take the windows menu and show all but the following items'?

I thought only when using =windowsonly the windows menu would be relevant and otherwise dopus would create the files itself.

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The New menu only draws from the filetypes that have 'new file' data specified in the registry. The include and exclude options let you modify that list but they can't add things that aren't defined in the registry.

12

Alright, got it.

Thanks a lot for your help and time.