Right Click Context Menu

cygig

I am thinking of coding some simple program that involves the right click menu in Windows. For example:

1. Right click a file in Windows Explorer and an option "append suffix" pops out that append a certain message like "done" or "completed" to the filename of the file. (Actually can you do this with a Windows Batch file?)

2. Right click a JPG file in Windows Explorer and an option "Encrypt" pops out that opens my Processing program and scrambles the position or pixel value of the image then output to a new JPG.

Are those possible with Processing?

jeremydouglass

@cygig -- while I haven't done this myself, I believe that you can:

1. write your sketch to use command-line arguments. See for example: https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/4943 https://forum.processing.org/one/topic/get-command-line-parameter-in-the-new-world-of-processing-java.html
2. create a Windows executable from your Processing sketch using either processing-java or the export menu
3. add a Windows Explorer command that calls the executable to a Windows Explorer right-click menu as per: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20449316/how-add-context-menu-item-to-windows-explorer-for-folders
4. right click to run

Chrisir

Nice explanation!