adding an option of your application to window's right click menu

Question

i am creating a java application and want to provide a functionality of it in mouse right click menu on windows os like if we have notepad++ installed then if we right click on some file then it shows an option "edit with notepad++"
i want to do similar kind of thing but with selected text

Answer 1

You'll have to add to your program a functionality to insert your program path into the registry. Check adding program to windows right click option menu for help.