No items from Beyond Compare 5 in context menu

[Jordan]

Beyond Compare 5 is on the stage of BETA testing. The program adds its items into context menus for files and folders. While these items are visible if a context menu is opened in the Windows Explorer, they are not visible if a context menu is opened in Total Commander (Windows 10, Total Commander 11.02). I do not know if this is a bug of Beyond Compare or Total Commander - I will write a similar post on their site too.

You can see a corresponding screenshot here (I do not know how else to build an image into this post):
https://ibb.co/xHCg6P2

[ghisler(Author)]

Total Commander does not create the context menu by itself. It requests it from Windows via the IContextMenu interface, and then adds its own entries. So when context menu entries are missing, then the program which owns these entries is responsible when they are missing in third party programs. Total Commander cannot control that.

There are cases where a program deliberately hides its entries from third party programs, for example:
- TortoiseSVN has a checkbox in the settings to show/hide its entries in third party programs
- some virus scanners hide their entries unless the calling program is named Explorer.exe

There are also cases where the program responsible for the context menu tries to access the hosting Explorer, which will fail when the menu is opened by a different program.

Please contact the developers of Beyond Compare 5 about the problem.

[Jordan]

Thank you for your very informative and very fast response. I will report a bug in Beyond Compare 5 to its developers.

[ghisler(Author)]

Please let me know if they give a reason why it doesn't work in Total Commander.

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Moved to English forum

[ZoSTeR]

 
They listed it as a "Known Issue":

- Windows 10: Shell extension isn't enabled in non-Explorer apps.

[Horst.Epp]

I have defined Beyond Compare in Wincmd.ini
CompareTool="C:\Tools\Beyond Compare 2\BC2.exe"
and use it with this button, which allows comparing files or dirs.

Code: Select all

TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
cm_CompareFilesByContent

C:\Tools\Beyond Compare 2\BC2.exe
Beyond Compare

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