Clearcase-Integration (GUI/context menu)

[Lutz]

Hello!
In the folder-viewer and the file-viewer (and also other plugins-viewers) the context menu should contain the original clearcase context menu items from the windows explorer (provided by ccshelxb.dll) instead of the BC2-menu. They may appear under "Source Control" in the folder-viewer and on the first level in the other viewers.
Greetings Lutz

[Chris]

Hello Lutz,

Have you tried our current 2.4 beta version? It provides the Windows Explorer context menu in BC's context menu under Explorer. This should allow you to access the Clearcase shell extension.

You can download the beta from: http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta/

[Lutz]

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Hello Lutz,

Have you tried our current 2.4 beta version? <font color="blue"> Yes, of course! </font> It provides the Windows Explorer context menu in BC's context menu under Explorer. This should allow you to access the Clearcase shell extension. <font color="blue"> You're right, this works, but ... </font>

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... thats not what I want, because I'm forced to open a second submenu. It would be better, to show clearcase menu items directly, replacing BC2 source control items (but of course only if clearcase is the current VCS). Is this possible at all?
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[Craig]

No, it isn't possible. The only way we could do what you're asking would be to special case our Explorer context menu support so it handles the ClearCase extension differently from everything else. While that's technically possible, that would be an awful lot of work just to move one specific shell extension from a submenu up one level.

I assume ClearCase has a third-party API, similar to the SourceSafe COM API (in addition to the SCC support). That could probably be used to add menu items for specific commands without going through the shell extension. We don't have time to look into it, and they don't appear to have a downloadable demo, so we couldn't do it even if we did. Once BC3 is out we'll probably start expanding the BC plug-in support to allow things like that, in which case a third party could do it.