No integrated cascade context menu for Peazip

[RichyH]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Total Commander
2. From there, select a file -> right click -> Peazip
3. See that cascaded context menu is not shown
Context menu should shown options like in windows explorer.

Operating System : windows 7 x64 fully updated
Total Commander : 8.0
Peazip : 4.6 x86 / x64 plain version

I red that it has something to do with the fact that on Windows 7 PeaZip uses the new method recommended by Microsoft for creating cascaded context menus, some software don't yet support that method so does not display the menus created in that way.

Is this something that will be fixed in the near future?

[ghisler(Author)]

I have never heared about a new cascaded context menu method. Where is that described? So far no other shell extension seems to have this problem.

[Bubu88]

I cannot post link, but there is a Creating Shortcut Menu Handlers in MSDN, in Creating Static Cascading Menus paragraph says:
"In Windows 7 and later, cascading menu implementation is supported through registry settings. Prior to Windows 7, the creation of cascading menus was possible only through the implementation of the IContextMenu interface. In Windows 7 and later, you should resort to COM code-based solutions only when the static methods are insufficient."

[RichyH]

I have never heared about a new cascaded context menu method. Where is that described? So far no other shell extension seems to have this problem.

I'm not allowed to post links yet.
But if you Google for "total commander peazip" it's the first hit.

Title : No integrated cascade menu when launching from total commander

[RichyH]

These are the links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144171(v=vs.85).aspx#static_cascading

http://code.google.com/p/peazip/issues/detail?id=94

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for the links. The MSDN article is very confusing, and a test menu created this way doesn't work. I found some more links:
http://io-repo.blogspot.ch/2011/05/cascading-context-menus-via-static.html
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsuidevelopment/thread/3ee4702a-f75a-4790-9332-e50f241efd6f

As it seems, the functionality is very badly documented, and I didn't find a single program except for peazip using it. I guess that not even the Microsoft engineers understood it, because the IContextMenu->QueryContextMenu function fails to load the submenu.

[RichyH]

I guess that not even the Microsoft engineers understood it.

Well, atleast that really sounds like Microsoft