Windows Explorer context menu problem

[Guest Steve Barnett]

If I right click on an HTML file in windows explorer, the context menu pops

up and includes a bunch of options for editing the file, such as Edit with

Dreamweaver, Edit with WeBuilder and a couple of others. If I click one of

these options, the relevant application is started and the file loaded.

 

However, if I select two or more HTML files and right click,while the same

menu appears, selecting one of the edit menu options does nothing. The hour

glass appears for a few seconds and then reverts to the pointer. No

application starts and none of the files are opened.

 

Does anyone know why this should be and how I can get the files opened?

 

I'm on Windows/XP SP2 with all the patches applied. I have another

application (UltraEdit) that works fine, but they seem to have achieved this

using an explorer extension. The app I want to use (WeBuilder) doesn't have

this facility.

 

I did try writing an app of my own to handle opening the files but, while it

worked fine for a single file, it didn't appear to be called at all when I

selected multiple files.

 

Thanks

Steve

[Guest Animenia]

Re: Windows Explorer context menu problem

 

 

Steve Barnett;571597 Wrote:

> If I right click on an HTML file in windows explorer, the context menu

> pops

> up and includes a bunch of options for editing the file, such as Edit

> with

> Dreamweaver, Edit with WeBuilder and a couple of others. If I click one

> of

> these options, the relevant application is started and the file

> loaded.

>

> However, if I select two or more HTML files and right click,while the

> same

> menu appears, selecting one of the edit menu options does nothing. The

> hour

> glass appears for a few seconds and then reverts to the pointer. No

> application starts and none of the files are opened.

>

> Does anyone know why this should be and how I can get the files

> opened?

>

> I'm on Windows/XP SP2 with all the patches applied. I have another

> application (UltraEdit) that works fine, but they seem to have achieved

> this

> using an explorer extension. The app I want to use (WeBuilder) doesn't

> have

> this facility.

>

> I did try writing an app of my own to handle opening the files but,

> while it

> worked fine for a single file, it didn't appear to be called at all

> when I

> selected multiple files.

>

> Thanks

> Steve

 

Could it be as simple as the software doesn't support multiple files

being opened at the same time? That you have to open them one by one? I

haven't used Dreamweaver in a very long time but I do remember older

versions of it NOT having the support for opening multiple files at the

same time.

[Guest Steve Barnett]

Re: Windows Explorer context menu problem

 

 

"Animenia" <Animenia.3637c8@no.email.invalid> wrote in message

news:Animenia.3637c8@no.email.invalid...

>

> Steve Barnett;571597 Wrote:

>> If I right click on an HTML file in windows explorer, the context menu

>> pops

>> up and includes a bunch of options for editing the file, such as Edit

>> with

>> Dreamweaver, Edit with WeBuilder and a couple of others. If I click one

>> of

>> these options, the relevant application is started and the file

>> loaded.

>>

>> However, if I select two or more HTML files and right click,while the

>> same

>> menu appears, selecting one of the edit menu options does nothing. The

>> hour

>> glass appears for a few seconds and then reverts to the pointer. No

>> application starts and none of the files are opened.

>>

>> Does anyone know why this should be and how I can get the files

>> opened?

>>

>> I'm on Windows/XP SP2 with all the patches applied. I have another

>> application (UltraEdit) that works fine, but they seem to have achieved

>> this

>> using an explorer extension. The app I want to use (WeBuilder) doesn't

>> have

>> this facility.

>>

>> I did try writing an app of my own to handle opening the files but,

>> while it

>> worked fine for a single file, it didn't appear to be called at all

>> when I

>> selected multiple files.

>>

>> Thanks

>> Steve

>

> Could it be as simple as the software doesn't support multiple files

> being opened at the same time? That you have to open them one by one? I

> haven't used Dreamweaver in a very long time but I do remember older

> versions of it NOT having the support for opening multiple files at the

> same time.

>

>

 

Could accept that IF my own application, specifically written to test this

facility had even been started by Explorer. It didn't.

 

Steve