Dragging a file, NanaZip missing in context menu.

[KoleckOLP]

(only tested on Windows 10, will later test on Windows 11 as well.)

When I Right Click a folder I get NanaZip in the context menu.

But if I Right Click Drag the same folder I do not get that option. (I do get the original 7zip, Windows 10)

Is there a plan to add Right Click Drag support like in the original 7zip? Aslo if and when the original 7zip autor adds Windows 11 context menu support what will this project do?

[binamralamsal]

Aslo if and when the original 7zip autor adds Windows 11 context menu support what will this project do?

You can check full roadmap of this project here.

[MouriNaruto]

I need some time to assess how to implement it with the current context menu interface I implemented. It need some time.

Kenji Mouri

[MouriNaruto]

I'm sorry because I can't add drag and drop context menu in Windows 10.

Because the desktop9:FileExplorerClassicDragDropContextMenuHandler which can make developers to define drag and drop context menu in the AppXManifest.xml, isn't introduced by Microsoft until Windows 11 Build 22000.

And I also need to implement the legacy IContextMenu based implementation, it's not worth doing it. (I wonder to use the modern way to implement the NanaZip.)

But if Microsoft will provide a modern way to implement the drag and drop context menu in the future, NanaZip will support that.

I hope the users can forgive me for that decision, and I close the issue.

Kenji Mouri

[HubKing]

If the traditional way is too complicated to implement, how about adding a simpler method? For example, in the archive's context menu, you could add something like "Mark [file name]". If the user clicks it, NanaZip should remember that archive's path. And then, if the user right-clicks an empty place of a directory in File Explorer or Desktop (currently, it does not show Nanazip menu there, but it is possible to add a context menu there, right?), NanaZip checks if an archive is currently marked, and if so, it could show the context menu items that one would see when right-dragging a ZIP file on Windows 10. Things like

• NanaZip ->
• • Extract marked here
• • Extract marked to \filename

and then it clears the marking, so that next time the user right-clicks an empty area of a directory, it would not show those menu items (or disable them).

[bluemryld]

Is this possible to now be implemented as Windows 11 Build 22000 in now in public preview?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/packaging-tool/support-legacy-context-menus

[c-michail]

Hello, It's a needed feature! Please implement! Many times we drag and drop folders and files outside the source folder so we don't need every time to change the path manually!

For example since https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip/issues/189 isn't implement i need to archive files from eg "program files" to desktop so i drag and drop them with the right button.

Consider that 7Zip is supporting this!

Thank you

[MouriNaruto]

@chmichael

I think I will try to implement it when I rewriting the shell extension implementation in NanaZip 2.x.

Kenji Mouri

[okibcn]

Any update on this one?

[luxifr]

+1... it's the one single feature I'm desperately missing in NanaZip compared to 7-zip. Heck, I'd pay money for this... was gonna ask whether you have a Patreon or something but then looked it up and sure enough you do - you got one more patron now. But pleeeaaase bring this feature to light 😭

[KenNZ23]

This is a feature that I would really like to see as well. I use it so often with 7-Zip that I am constantly frustrated by its absence from NanaZip, which is otherwise a great piece of software. I think the number of duplicate issues that have occurred over time indicates that numerous users are missing it too (I was going to open a new issue but found this one first).

You mentioned you would "try to implement it when I rewriting the shell extension implementation in NanaZip 2.x." Did you make any progress with this?

[LinguaOccultus]

Was about to suggest the same and just found this by searching the issue.

However, this seems to be a pretty old request never solved as far as I can tell, since 3.x still does not have the context menu when dragging and dropping something with the right mouse button (on Windows 11 Pro 23H2).

But before I moved to NanaZip for obvious reasons, coming from the original 7-Zip it is a fork of as far as I know, that application had this feature. And it was at least Windows 10 with the modern context menu when I last checked and it worked fine.

Whatever the problems are, I would also like to have this feature (back) as it is extremely useful and time saving. And with even the Windows File Explorer now having tabs and maybe one day finaly two views, this totally makes sense! =)

[c-michail]

Windows 11 24H2 is on the way might be easy to implement now

[LinguaOccultus]

Might still not be the most urgent feature request on first sight ... but it's annoying as hell in everyday work! :-D

[MultiKoopa]

Is this possible to implement now? This is one of my most-used features in 7-zip, and I might have to go back because of it :(