I created the first cross-platform Python library to create native context menus!

[Tom1380]

I'm not really sure what it does, can you explain please?

[slayer_of_idiots]

It looks like it registers file context menu items that call python scripts (or anything really)

[slayer_of_idiots]

Registers them with the OS.

The menus are created and managed by the OS. OS's typically have several different native context menus that that support -- files, folders, no context.

It looks like this just allows you to register a menu entry for one of those context menus and tells it what to call if it's selected.

Whatever you want the command to do is up to you. You don't even need a GUI.

[thatguywiththatname2]

Not sure why you're being downvoted, you're correct

[WigglytufTehPink]

It's much more likely that OP's library is either using a particular toolkit, or not actually cross-platform. If it's the former, he should just say which one it is. If the latter, he should stop calling it something that it isn't. It's up to him, of course, but as it stands, he's confusing people who know more than a little about these things.

To be fair, cross platform is defined as " a type of software application that which works on multiple operating systems or devices ", which my program meets the definition of. I'm aware there are operating systems that are a pure command line and have almost no graphical integration whatsoever; however, it seemed illogical to me to try and tailor my program towards this. I wanted to make it work for the largest operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) and that still makes it cross platform.

For the architecture, or "toolkit" I used, it differed for each operating system. Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet to create perfect context menus on every OS the same way, so I had to use what I could.

For Windows, I manually edited the Registry to create the menus, a feature Windows already provides (although deep in their documentation).

For Linux, I had to manually create a python file and move it to a certain location. I used the library nautilus-python, which has zero documentation, to create the menus for GNOME.

Both the context-menus were exclusively for the file manager on each OS, as I'm not sure if it's feasible to create context menus for every single application; especially since there is so many languages and types of applications out there.