Customizing Opera's context-menus                          Version 1.0
=================================                        Build #040912



What's this about?
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Using Opera 7.x one is able to customize the rightclick menus. That in
mind it's possible to add a menu item for "Download using FlashGet".
First you need to know, that every kind of menu entry in Opera is
saved as plaintext in standard_menu.ini in the Opera defaults folder
(normally C:\Program Files\Opera7\defaults). So, we need to modify this
file in order to add our FlashGet menu extension.



Requirements
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- Opera 7.0 or above
- FlashGet 1.60 or above



Here we go!
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1) Get the folder where Opera is installed. See the registry at
   
     [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\5.0, Opera\Main]
     "Install Directory"="C:\\Program Files\\Opera7"

   From here on I will use %opera% instead of the whole path we got
   from the registry since we need to save this info into a variable
   to use it in our program.
   
   ATTENTION! Be sure to not use this variable in any files we modify!
   Always use the whole path we got from the registry. Otherwise it
   will mess up your Opera installation!


2) Goto this folder and copy

     %opera%\defaults\standard_menu.ini
     
   to
   
     %opera%\profile\menu\standard_menu.ini


3) Open this file with a text editor and change the following:

     - change the name (line 7) into "Opera Standard with FlashGet extension" 
     - search for the categories

         "[Link Popup Menu]" and "[Image Link Popup Menu]"

       and add the following line to both categories: 

         Item, "Download using FlashGet" = Execute program, "C:\Program Files\FlashGet\flashget.exe","%l" 

       That is a lowercase L after the last %

     - save the file and start Opera


4) Goto "File/Preferences/Toolbars and Menus". In newer versions
   it's called "Extra's/Preferences/Toolbars and Menus" and highlight
   the new entry "Opera Standard with FlashGet extension" in the field
   "Menu setup"


5) Press "OK" and that's it! Now you can download link-targets (both
   text- AND image-links) by right-clicking on a link and choose
   "Download using FlashGet".



Hint:
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You can skip 4) and 5) if you add the following line into section [User Prefs]
of the file %opera%\profile\opera6.ini
   
     Menu Configuration=%opera%\profile\menu\standard_menu.ini

This can easily be done using Nullsoft's NSIS Installer 2.0.
Get it from www.nullsoft.com



Legal
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This tutorial has been written by ACiD StOUt from DJS Productions Inc.
Copyright 2004 DJS Productions Inc.
www.acidstout.tk
All rights reserved.