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Krita Shell Extension

Release Version: 1.1

This is the version bundled with the official Krita 3.0 release..

Shell Extension to provide various information about Krita files in Windows Explorer.

License

The MIT License

Please refer to COPYING.txt.

Acknowledgement

This software uses the following libraries:

For the license information on these libraries, you can either refer to the above URLs, or refer to the corresponding COPYING files included in the source tree and/or binary release package.

System Requirements

This shell extension requires Windows Vista or above. It does not work on Windows XP and previous versions of Windows.

The binaries were compiled using Visual Studio 2015. They are linked statically against the C++ runtime, so no extra runtime libraries are needed for this to work.

Installing

Executing the installer should work without any trouble.

If you would like to install the shell extension manually, please follow these steps:

  1. Place kritashellex32.dll (and also kritashellex64.dll if you are running a 64-bit Windows system) in a location that is accessible by all users.
  2. (Optional:) Set the access rights of the two dll files to be read-only by all users.
  3. Start a command prompt with administrative rights.
  4. Change to the location where the two dll files are located at.
  5. Execute regsvr32 kritashellex32.dll (without quotes.)
  6. (For 64-bit system only:) Execute regsvr32 kritashellex64.dll

If you would like to uninstall the shell extension manually, please follow these steps:

  1. Start a command prompt with administrative rights.
  2. Change to the location where the two dll files are located at.
  3. Execute regsvr32 /u kritashellex32.dll (without quotes.)
  4. (For 64-bit system only:) Execute regsvr32 /u kritashellex64.dll
  5. Delete the two dll files.

Additional registry changes are needed for properties from the property handler to show up in Windows Explorer. You can refer to the GitHub Wiki page or the NSIS installer scripts.

Using

Once this library is registered on the system, it will automatically
work inside Windows Explorer and other shell components (e.g. File
Dialogs) without needing further actions.

Building From Source

Please visit https://github.com/alvinhochun/KritaShellExtension for the source code and build instructions..

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