[stotan]

Hi, I'm a recent switcher and I love OS X, however there are a few things that I liked about xp, but can't seem to figure out how to do it in os x (could be possible and i just dont know how)

So anyways, Is there a way to customize the menu that comes up when you right click?
Like for instance if i right click on an item, it shows open, open with, get info, etc.
Can i add this into that list, like i have bbedit and would like to add something that says open with bbedit into it?
I have stuffit and stuffit seems to have added itself into the list, so it seems to me like there should be a way, but i just dont know how.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Developer]

There are so called "Contextual Menu Items" that go into the folder (~)/Library/Contextual Menu Items/

These extend the Finder's contextual menu. Some applications install them (like StuffIt apparently).

[King Bob On The Cob]

Well sometime soon (I hope) FruitMenu will be coming around again. That allows total customization of the right click menu.
http://www.unsanity.com/

[stotan]

Originally posted by Developer:
There are so called "Contextual Menu Items" that go into the folder (~)/Library/Contextual Menu Items/

These extend the Finder's contextual menu. Some applications install them (like StuffIt apparently).

thanks for the info. Is there any way that i can cutomize it through? I see that stuffit has a plugin in the folder, but i tried to like just throw an alias of the program I wanted to show up in the right click and that doesnt work

[Developer]

No, the only way to add something to the Finder contextual menu is by adding a contextual menu plugin which is some special thing of code. Just an alias won't work.

Now King Bob says Unsanity has a hack that allows to do this, but I haven't tested that.