creating a right-click command in win ME?

[Dave Smey]

Hello,

I've just discovered irfanview, and I hope to use it to batch convert TIFs
down to single-bit-depth. (I export tiffs from Freehand, and unfortunately
it creates huge RGB tifs instead of compact black-and-white ones.) I've
written the following batch file which seems to work...

c:\progra~1\irfanv~1\i_view32.exe *.tif /bpp=1 /convert=*.tif

How might I create a command on the right-click menu to do this, so all I
would have to do is surf over to the correct directory and do two mouse
clicks?

Thanks,
-Dave Smey
Brooklyn, NY

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[dadiOH]

Hello,

I've just discovered irfanview, and I hope to use it to batch
convert TIFs down to single-bit-depth. (I export tiffs from
Freehand, and unfortunately it creates huge RGB tifs instead of
compact black-and-white ones.) I've written the following batch
file which seems to work...

c:\progra~1\irfanv~1\i_view32.exe *.tif /bpp=1 /convert=*.tif

How might I create a command on the right-click menu to do this, so
all I would have to do is surf over to the correct directory and do
two mouse clicks?

Don't know about ME but in 98 you would go to settings > file types, find
the appropriate file type, make a new "action" and point the app for the
action to irfanview.exe including necessary parameters at the end.

Perhaps that will help. If not, go to
http://thesoftpro.tripod.com/downloads/fe/index.htm#req
and get Fast Explorer. It is absolutely the world's coolest app for
making/controlling context menu entries.

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[Dave Smey]

Hey, thanks...

Don't know about ME but in 98 you would go to settings > file types, find
the appropriate file type, make a new "action" and point the app for the
action to irfanview.exe including necessary parameters at the end.

Yeah, I seem to remember that under 98. Under ME, though, it appears that
you don't have the power to create new actions.

Perhaps that will help. If not, go to
http://thesoftpro.tripod.com/downloads/fe/index.htm#req
and get Fast Explorer. It is absolutely the world's coolest app for
making/controlling context menu entries.

It does indeed look good. I managed to create the command I wanted and
associate it with all files. For some reason I couldn't get it to associate
with TIF in particular.

-D

 

[dadiOH]

It does indeed look good. I managed to create the command I wanted
and associate it with all files. For some reason I couldn't get it
to associate with TIF in particular.

Did you make it as a "static" item? If so, make it as a "Submenu Item" and
enable dynamic items.

If that's what you have already, select the item then in the right window
click on the drop down arrow to the right of "File Type: All Files". That
opens the file type box so just skim down until you find "TIF Image
Document" and select it. Fast Explorer will do the rest.

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[WD]

Hello,

How might I create a command on the right-click menu to do this, so all I
would have to do is surf over to the correct directory and do two mouse
clicks?

Thanks,
-Dave Smey
Brooklyn, NY

From Windows Explorer Menu > Tools > Folder Options
Select Tab > File Types
Find and hi-light "TIF"
Click on the 'Advanced' button
Click 'New'
In 'Action' field type "Convert"

In 'Application to perform action'
click the 'Browse' button find and select Iview32

Still in the 'Application to perform action'-
at the end of the program path/name type " %1 /bpp=1 /convert=%1"

So it looks like this:

"C:\Program Files\IView\i_view32.exe" %1 /bpp=1 /convert=%1


Click Ok > OK > Close

To test:

Select/hi-light 1 or more .TIF files right-click select 'Convert'


-WD

 

[Dave Smey]

Thanks for the detailed instructions. I finally figured out where things
were not working...

From Windows Explorer Menu > Tools > Folder Options
Select Tab > File Types
Find and hi-light "TIF"
Click on the 'Advanced' button

For TIF's, I had a "Restore" button rather than an "Advanced" button. Once
I restored (from what I don't exactly understand) everything was fine...

This also accounts for why I couldn't do anything to it with FastExplorer.
The file type was "locked" somehow.

Many thanks to the both of you...
-D