apps started by right click menù under Windows

cippalippa · Post by **cippalippa** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:35 am

Hi everybody,
I'm new to wine.
I'm using wine-1.2 on MAC OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.4).

I'd like to run dBPowerAMP Music Converter.
Under Windows I usually start this program selecting a file and an entry on the explorer righ click menù (Convert to...).

I tried

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wine explorer /desktop=one,1024x768 explorer

but the right click menù has no entry for dBPowerAMP Music Converter even though it's installed and configured properly (actually a can run it through the command line:

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wine start "C:\Programs\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\MusicConverter.exe"

).

I would be able to start dBPowerAMP through a right click menù entry even under MAC OS X. Is there a way to do this through wine?

Thanks for your help.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:36 am

Looking it up, this seems to be an audio file converter. Have you tried any of the Linux native converters? The Nautilus Audio Converter extension isn't half bad.

If you have any specific reason to use this one, though, I'm not sure if Wine implements custom context menu options yet. Or did you mean you're not seeing it in the "open file with application" type menu?

cippalippa · Post by **cippalippa** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:06 am

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'm not sure if Wine implements custom context menu options yet. Or did you mean you're not seeing it in the "open file with application" type menu?

Well, I don't know whether it should be in the explorer context menu or in the Mac OS "open with..." menu. Indeed this is my question.
I'm just wondering if I can use this app the same way I used under Windows. It's really convenient selecting a group of files an then click the context menu "Convert to" to get them the way you want.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:08 pm

One thing's for sure here; it won't appear in your OSX menus, and it probably never will. If it did appear, it would be in Wine Explorer, not your native file browser. If it doesn't appear in Wine Explorer, that probably means that context menu support isn't implemented in Wine yet.

If you have a way to actually open apps with the converter, do that. As for how to create an usable shortcut in OSX for your Wine app, I think this has been answered before a few times - search the forums.

cippalippa · Post by **cippalippa** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:05 am

One thing's for sure here; it won't appear in your OSX menus, and it probably never will. If it did appear, it would be in Wine Explorer, not your native file browser. If it doesn't appear in Wine Explorer, that probably means that context menu support isn't implemented in Wine yet.

If you have a way to actually open apps with the converter, do that. As for how to create an usable shortcut in OSX for your Wine app, I think this has been answered before a few times - search the forums.

OK, thank you very much!

An OSX shortcut it's ok for me.