#94 No integrated cascade menu when launching from total commander

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: notstop@live.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open total commander
2. from there, select a file -> right click -> Peazip
3. See that cascaded context menu is not shown

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Context menu should shown options like in windows explorer

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
windows 7 x64

Please provide any additional information below.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com

On Windows 7 PeaZip uses the new method recommended by Microsoft for creating cascaded context menus, some software don't yet support that method so does not display the menus created in that way.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144171(v=vs.85).aspx#static_cascading

Status: Duplicate

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: notstop@live.com

so it is problem of total commander? The latest version 7.56a still has the issue.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: pieterva... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

any solutions?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com

Issue 154 has been merged into this issue.

[Daniello Alto]

Same issue here
TC + Win7 => No cascaded context menu.

Propsal:
What about introducing a setting that'll make PeaZip to use the classic/compatible way' of creating its cascaded context menus?

[Giorgio Tani]

Creating cascaded context menu is quite tricky, and involves creation of a dynamic verb needing to register a custom dll handler that should stay resident in memory to parse/handle requests.
The new method (static verbs) used by PeaZip was created by Microsoft in W7 to simplify creation of cascaded menus and to avoid inherent issues of old method - an unstable or resource-inefficient handler could impact the whole system each time right click is invoked.

A possible workaround: installing or re-configuring PeaZip, un-check "Cascaded menu" option (available on W7+ systems) in "Context menu" screen.
This way the installer will create classic non-cascaded static verbs which works on newer and older systems (Vista, XP and previous ones), as well as third parts file managers.