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Title: How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 05, 2004, 10:06:04 pm

How do you add an external program to the "send to" menu? The program name and path seem pretty obvious, but what are the options in the parameter field? The default is "[FILENAME]" but this seems to open a separate instance of the external program for each filename. What are the possible parameters here?

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 06, 2004, 07:56:53 pm

anybody? I just need some info about how MC works. What are the possible values for the parameter field when you add an external program to the "send to" menu?

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: sraymond on January 06, 2004, 08:14:39 pm

There was once a thread on sending files to Explorer for printing....  but I can't find it.  Sorry.

Scott-

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: zevele10 on January 06, 2004, 08:21:42 pm

wich program do you want to set?

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 06, 2004, 08:50:55 pm

Winamp 5, for playback with visuals. Right now, using send-to opens multiple instances of Winamp.

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: Quisp on January 06, 2004, 09:27:12 pm

A related question...

I was trying to select a "playlist" of images and send it to the Shutterfly uploader, it works fine with a single image, but not multiples. Anyone have any idea what might need to be set, if anything? It would be great to somewhat directly integrate MC with outside photo services...

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: sraymond on January 06, 2004, 09:43:26 pm

Quote from: Quisp on January 06, 2004, 09:27:12 pm

A related question...

I was trying to select a "playlist" of images and send it to the Shutterfly uploader, it works fine with a single image, but not multiples. Anyone have any idea what might need to be set, if anything? It would be great to somewhat directly integrate MC with outside photo services...

I remember talking about this long ago... see http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=11039;start=msg69731#msg69731 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=11039;start=msg69731#msg69731).

I use Shutterfly exclusively now...  I had to buy $100 of photos to get a good deal.  It would be great if there was an easy way to upload.  For now, I've been just copying my photos to a new foloder and then using the Shutterfly software.

Scott-

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 06, 2004, 11:45:48 pm

Anything from the developers? What are the possible entries in the parameter field?

Default is currently [FILENAME], [PLAYLIST] doesn't seem to do anything (opened a single instance of Winamp, with a playlist full of identical entries called "[PLAYLIST]").

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: nila on January 07, 2004, 02:49:34 am

I'd LOVE to know this too.

I once asked for [FOLDER] to be added to send the whole dir a file was in to an external program but  no joy :(

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 07, 2004, 08:58:23 pm

*bump*

Anything from the developers on this? Not a feature request, just trying to find out how an existing feature works.

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 08, 2004, 08:47:06 pm

*bump*

Title: Re:How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 12, 2004, 04:59:28 am

Any answers? I need to know what are the possible values for the parameter field when sending to an external program from the "Send To" menu. Not a feature request, not a bug report, just a question about the program that I can't answer by looking at the help file.

Title: Re: How to add external program to "send to" menu?
Post by: jwaters on January 23, 2005, 12:23:44 am

I'll give this another bump.  I have exactly the same question -- what parameters are available to send? 

Is [FILENAME] the only option?

I'm trying to write a batch file to use, and I'd like to pass a couple of parameters.  I would like to send a second parameter like [Filename (name)] but this doesn't seem to work.

Thanks