How to add CL Slideshow to the Windows "Send To" menu
 
There is a nice way to add CL Slideshow to the context menu in Windows Explorer. This enables you to open a new instance of CL Slideshow that shows all currently selected images, including images contained in selected directories.

That's how you do it:
 
  1. Open Windows Explorer, e.g. by hitting the Windows and E keys.
  2. Navigate to the SendTo folder. Depending on your version of Windows, this is in different locations of your system drive (which is normally C:\):
    • Windows XP/2000:
      Documents and Settings\<your username>\SendTo
    • Windows NT:
      Winnt\Profiles\<your username>\SendTo
    • Windows 9x:
    • Windows\SendTo
  3. In the SendTo folder, create a new Shortcut (right-click on an empty space -> New -> Shortcut)
  4. Now you have to fill in the application the shortcut is to be set to.
    Note: This is not the CL Slideshow JAR file but the javaw executable of your Java Virtual Machine (JVM)!
    Use the "Browse" button to navigate to your JVM directory, choose the bin folder and select "javaw.exe".
  5. Press next and choose a name for the shortcut, e.g. "CL Slideshow". Now click OK.
  6. Now we have to tell javaw which class it has to load. To do this we right-click on the new shortcut and choose properties.
    In the text field called "Target", add the following (starting with a blank) to the application path:
    -jar Slideshow.jar
    Now javaw knows it has to load a JAR file called Slideshow.jar, but it doesn't know yet where that file is located.
    To do this, we change the path from the Java bin directory to the directory where Slideshow.jar is located.
    Click OK and that's it!

    There are a few optional features:
  7. Add an icon to the shortcut.
    By default, the shortcut takes over the icon of the application it is linking to. That's javaw.exe which has now specific icon. If you prefer a different one hit the "Different symbol..." button in the properties window we just opened in step 6 and give the path to an icon file.
    You can get the official CL Slideshow icon here.
  8. Tell Slideshow to go to full screen mode at once.
    To do this, we just add the term -fs starting with a blank to the target text field (see step 6).
    You can also create two shortcuts to CL Slideshow, one with and one without the fullscreen option. In this case, remember to give different names to each of the two shortcuts.
 
How to use your newly created sendto item(s)
 
Now that you have successfully created your CL Slideshow sendto item, you might want to know how it is used.
Select one or more image files (and/or directories containing images files) in windows explorer. Now, right-click on one of the selected items and move the mouse pointer over the "SendTo" menu item. A new sub-menu pops up, containing your CL Slideshow item. Click on it and CL Slideshow will start, having all the selected images in its image list!
 
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