Windows Explorer context menu problem

[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

 

[Steve Barnett]

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