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-
-Contents:
-
- Introduction ``What is shlext?``
- Why so long?
- What you need
- New features
- Features
- Quirks
- Important changes
- But Miranda has drag'n'drop!
- Installation
- Upgrading/Removing
- Translation
- License
- Contact/Bug reporting
- Credits
-
-
-
- ---Introduction ``What is shlext?``
-
- shlext is a Miranda and Explorer shell plugin, it allows you to use your
- contact list under any file/directory from Windows.
-
- This means that you can right click on a file/folder, see "Miranda" and then
- see your entire contact list! this is a feature that ICQ has built in.
-
- shlext is better of course.
-
- ---Why so long?
-
- A few people contacted me aeons ago about implementing a better file scanner
- so that they could recreate directories whilst sending, etc, I said I would do
- this as soon as I had time, that was several months ago.
-
- I had made several changes/bugfixes when I had time, because I'm a Miranda
- dev too, I don't usually have lots of time for this plugin, however lately I needed
- shlext to run again, since I was sending lots of docs/logs around with Miranda.
-
- So I fixed several things and improved lots of other stuff so that other users
- could use shlext again (the XP bug was really annoying as soon as I got XP myself ;)
-
-
- ---What you need
-
- (2008) You will need 0.7.xx or 0.8.x -- older versions will not work.
-
- shlext should work on all Window Explorer versions that support it,
- certain features will not work on older Explorers, i.e. icons, but you will
- still be able to use the main function of shlext, selection 'n' transfer.
-
- ---New Features (2.0.1.2)
-
- * shlext is now compiled with Free Pascal 2.2.4
-
- * shlext now works with Windows Vista:
-
- 1. shlext cannot automatically register itself with Windows Explorer due to permissions issues in Vista,
- therefore you will be UAC prompted if shlext detects you are running Vista and that shlext isn't registered
- with Explorer.
-
- This is almost automatic, and you just have to press "OK".
-
- 2. The entire menu drawing was overhauled and now looks much better, new APIs are used so that Vista draws the menus
- (with theme) but the status icons are still present.
-
- * added UAC button for "Remove" from the options dialog.
-
- * Removed GetMenuItemInfo() debug message box.
-
- * Note: Miranda is a 32bit application, 64bit editions of Windows require a 64bit extension DLL, this is not possible at present.
-
- ---New features (2.0.0.9+)
-
- * shlext is now compiled with Free Pascal 2.2.2 which is a newer compiler with better
- optimisations so shlext should be faster. (2002 v.s. 2008)
-
- * shlext now works with Miranda 0.8.x UUID typing system and 0.8.xx plugin loading APIs,
- 0.7.xx still works too however.
-
- * shlext now keeps track of recently used contacts and builds a "MRU" menu for quick
- access within the menu system. This cannot be disabled, if you hate this feature,
- please stick pins into a voodoo doll named "Christian", that is all.
-
- * The menu strings "Recently" and "Clear entries" are translate()able but MRU is not.
-
- ---New features (1.0.6.6+)
-
- * shlext will now use all your icons per protocol, **not** just the first iconset
- it finds, it will also use everything properly (because it doesn't do the icon
- extraction, it just asks Miranda [don't ask why it didn't do this before :P])
-
- * shlext will now use a Translate()'d version of "Miranda" so that each menu
- shown for a profile can be given a custom user string
-
- * reimplemented file/folder selection, finally! a work-as-expected version, it will
- scan and add all files and folders you give it, producing a file list in the background
- (scanning your drive) and then send the list to Miranda to send to your selected contact.
-
- * Added option for disabling status icons in menus, which means that you can use shlext
- with shell variants/file managers that invoke the shlext interface, such as FAR, but
- don't need/use the icons.
-
- * Added option about hiding offline users from the context menu, if this option is off
- it will fall back onto syncing with your contact list's "hide offline users"
-
- * Added proper thread safety because Miranda 0.3 now has it.
-
- * Completely reimplemented group parsing, which means that all the old group bugs
- can be expected to be gone, note that shlext will now even create menus for
- subgroups of the same name, e.g. "Miranda\Miranda".
-
- * shlext will now not show a menu for a running Miranda fails the following checks:
-
- * not running shlext (duh)
- * no non-offline contacts (or you have the setting 'hide offline users')
- * and so on
-
- * shlext will now also completely ignore contacts on protocols who have no file transfer support
-
-
- ---Features
-
- shlext can:
-
- * allow you to refer to your entire contact list from a file/folder context
- menu, this includes multiple profiles! if you have Miranda running
- different profiles, you'll see all your profiles as menu items as long
- as you're running shlext as a Miranda plugin in that profile.
-
- * Group ability, see a faithful menu rendition of your group hierarchy.
- This means you can go something like File->My Profile->Work->Friends->Dude...
-
- This feature can also be turned off, or enabled in sync with your contact
- list option to "Disable groups", this is a per profile setting, i.e. setting
- disable groups on one profile won't affect other profiles running shlext.
-
- * Multi protocol aware, shlext can send to anyone on your contact list
- not just ICQ!
-
- * Each contact will be shown next to their status icon, as selected in your
- profile(s) which means that you'll easily feel at home with the icons,
- because they will be used as how they are set in each profile.
-
- * lots of files, shlext will now, if given a directory/folder go into that
- folder and scan for files and sub directories/folders til it's added
- everything.
-
- This means if you send c:\foobar, it will search c:\foobar\*.* for more
- files to add, it will also add c:\foobar as a directory space to send.
- Which means that if the other side hasn't got a 'foobar' directory, it will
- be created! (Note: recreating directory trees depends on the protocol being used to send)
-
-
- --Quirks
-
- * shlext displays all your users by default, if your contact list is set to
- NOT show offline users, then shlext will not show them.
-
- * shlext doesn't use all your group settings, it will not ad here to
- "hide offline users in here", however if a group has got offline users
- it won't show them (per setting option!)
-
-
-
- ---Important changes
-
- Older versions of shlext did not go into folders more than one level, i.e.
- if you added c:\foobar it would scan for c:\foobar\*.* and add all the files
- but not go into each directory\folder deeper than that!
-
- shlext also now does background selection scanning, which means when you select
- a group of files/folders/directories, it will let you get on with chating
- until it's made a file list which you can send to the person you've selected.
-
- shlext will NOT send any file/folder/directory that is marked "hidden"
-
- Also, sometimes you will see "n files, 1 directory" when you say select something
- e.g. c:\foobar, this is because shlext now also includes the top level directory so that the
- remote side will know to create it, as well as sub directories.
-
-
-
- ---But Miranda has drag'n'drop!
-
- Yeah, that's okay when you can reach Miranda, but I have multiple profiles and
- the "hide after NN seconds" option enabled, also I have groups!
-
- Miranda doesn't auto expand a group when someone is online unless you do that
- yourself, which means drag 'n' drop has failed. Also, when you've selected a
- large amount of files, Miranda will *freeze* completely whilst
- it 1) scans all those files, 2) builds a copy of the given send list
-
- Whilst shlext only freezes Miranda for the latter, and that is seldom a "complete freeze".
-
- And of course, shlext uses Miranda 0.3's advanced threading services, which means
- if you've asked shlext to build a massive send list, you can still exit Miranda safely
- which you can't with drag 'n' drop!
-
-
-
- ---Installation
-
- If you've never installed shlext before, all you have to do is install it like
- any other Miranda plugin, i.e. copy it to your plugins directory.
-
- That's it! you should goto Miranda->Options->Plugins->Shell Context Menus
- to see if you'd like to set any of the options, however shlext works straight
- out of the box and you don't really need to set anything up after that.
-
- If you want to use shlext with multiple profiles, you don't have to do any
- special setting up either, just make sure that shlext is running with each Miranda
- you want shlext to show a menu contact list for.
-
- Make sure ALL copies of shlext.dll are the same, i.e. 1.0.6.6, if they're not
- then shlext will fail (this doesn't mean 'crash').
-
-
- ---Upgrading/Removing
-
- Upgrading shlext has always been a pain for users (and me!) this is because
- shlext.dll runs in Windows and in Miranda (at the same time).
-
- So when you've shutdown Miranda, shlext.dll maybe kept in memory by Windows
- to make things worse, clicking any file/folder will result in shlext.dll being
- reloaded, so if you do shlext.dll->Delete, Windows will ask shlext.dll if
- it wants to show any menus, nevermind the fact delete was selected!
-
- This happens also if you just press 'delete' whilst shlext.dll is selected.
-
- However! All is not lost, this is what you do:
-
- * goto M->Options->Plugins and disable shlext.dll as a Miranda plugin
- * goto M->Options->Plugins->Shell context menus and click 'Remove'.
- * Shutdown Miranda IM
-
- Advanced users only: ----------------------------------------------------
-
- * Do all the above and then open a console window (Command prompt, etc)
- * Make sure all applications have been shutdown
- * Goto the directory where Miranda is, e.g. c:\, cd Miranda
- * Goto Start->Shutdown, let the dialog come up and hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT
- and press cancel.
-
- This will shutdown Explorer but not Windows, you can now do: del shlext.dll
-
- * now run Explorer.exe usually in C:\Windows, shlext.dll will be removed.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The remove button will ask Windows not to load it anymore, by removing
- all shlext registry entries, the button will also remove any settings from your
- profile settings database that it may of made.
-
- You should now be able to delete shlext.dll! however if you still are unable
- to, you may need to log out (if you're using XP/2000/NT) if you're using
- 9x then you may have to restart Windows (pain I know, sorry!)
-
- You should now be free of old shlext copies and you can refer to "Installation"
- above.
-
- If you were using shlext.dll with multiple profiles, the remove shlext
- from each profile as stated above and then copy the newer shlext.dll to
- your plugins folder.
-
- ---Translation
-
- I haven't been nice about translation strings in the past, but you
- can pretty much translate everything shlext uses a string, even
- "Miranda" which is shown in the menu.
-
- Note that some strings can't be translated, this is because some parts
- of the plugin run within Explorer and that doesn't have access to Miranda's
- langpacks, the "Miranda" string that appears in menus is a special exception
-
- ;
- ; Translate()'able strings for shlext/2.0.0.9
- ;
-
- ;"Miranda" limited to 63characters! (exceed and it's chopped)
- ;[Miranda]
- ;[Problem, registration missing/deleted.]
- ;[Successfully created shell registration.]
- ;[Not Approved]
- ;[Approved]
- ;[Are you sure? this will remove all the settings stored in your database and all registry entries created for shlext to work with Explorer]
- ;[Disable/Remove shlext]
- ;[Shell context menus]
-
- ; new in 2.0.0.9, both these strings cannot be longer than 63 chracters
- ;[Clear entries]
- ;[Recently]
-
- ;IDD_SHLOPTS
- ;[Menus]
- ;[Display contacts in their assigned groups (if any)]
- ;[Only if/when the contact list is using them]
- ;[Display hidden, ignored or temporary contacts]
- ;[Shell Status]
- ;[Do not display the profile name in use]
- ;[Contact Status]
- ;[Show contacts that you have set privacy rules for]
- ;[Remove]
- ;[Do not show status icons in menus]
- ;[Do not show contacts that are offline, even if my contact list does]
-
-
-
-
- ---License
-
- Like Miranda, shlext is released under the GPL, you may find the full
- FreePascal source-code on the CVS in plugins module 'shlext'
-
- You will need at least FreePascal/2.2.2, GNU make (if you want to use the makefile)
-
- Follow the CVS links from http://sf.net/projects/miranda-icq/
-
- Note: All the tools used to build shlext are also under the GPL!
-
-
- ---Contact/Bug reporting
-
- In the past shlext hasn't been as stable as it could be, but this was mainly
- due to the problems of 0.2.0.0 and early 0.3.0.0 Miranda builds, I've taken
- care to make sure things are stable as can be.
-
- If you have any problems/crashes, please contact me at: egodust at users.sf.net.
-
- Please include the following information: Windows version, service packs installed,
- build version of Explorer, Miranda version, shlext version, a list of plugins
- that you think maybe involved in crashes, steps to reproduce errors and so on.
-
- Note that shlext has been blamed for several bugs that were not shlext's fault,
- for example the file xfer cancel bug was in ICQ and Miranda but not shlext ;)
-
-
- ---Credits
-
- Tig-crash\d - Thanks for beta testing every version before this one ;)
- Erik?, DD Of Borg - Thanks for beta testing 0.0.2.2/1.0.6.6 -- ideas and suggestions
- as well what to exactly steal from ShellFileSend, heh..
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