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How do I add an entry in Project Explorer's popup menu

Is it possible to add my own entries in the popup menu of Project Explorer?

I'm considering writing an LabVIEW addin that adds extra functionality to the Project Explorer, but I need a way to extend the context menu.

/Leif
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@LeifS wrote:
Is it possible to add my own entries in the popup menu of Project Explorer?

I'm considering writing an LabVIEW addin that adds extra functionality to the Project Explorer, but I need a way to extend the context menu.

/Leif


It is probably possible with digging deep into the contents of your "LabVIEW/resources" folder but will have a number of drawbacks. First your VI will need to provide a specific (undocumented) and most probably not so trivial interface that will be hard to uncover. It will somehow need to tell the project Explorer what it's name is and for what types of files or containers it should be displayed.

Then those hooks will likely change between each LabVIEW version too as the Project Explorer is still a project under development. So unless there is an unlikely document here on ni.com that describes this (and which a search should clearly give you if there) I think it is simply not worth the hassle to dig into this.

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