I’m an author of few patches for both Tortoise SVN and Tortoise CVS that makes them display the explorer’s context menu icons nicely on XP and Windows 2000. Both programs are implementing IContextMenu and using QueryContextMenu function to create items of popup menu of explorer. Briefly the called extension must fill menu items with InsertMenuItem using suplied HMENU hmenu parameter.

During development of those few patches I’ve learnt some few new things about way we make icons displayed next to menu items I want to share with you… (more…)