[RWP] Reaper's affect on Windows Explorer

[indigo]

I don't know, is that the infamous failure to drop the applications menu 
in Reaper versions after version 4?
If I press ctrl+up arrow, I hear a message that I'm in mixer properties, 
I believe it is.
After pressing ctrl+up arrow, try pressing down arrow a couple of times 
and tell me what you hear?
. but pressing ctrl+up arrow once, somehow fixes the access problem to 
the applications key menu.
But, if I'm on a track item with ctrl+right arrow, sometimes I hit 
ctrl+up arrow and wait a little too long to press the applications key, 
and get an entirely different menu than the one I expect for item settings.
Do you remember that old song The Lost Chord, where the musician 
discovers a strange and beautiful chord, but doesn't know how he got 
there, so is never able to find his way back?
Sometimes I feel like that in Reaper.
It's a labyrinth, with many doors leading to many places.
I did discover a while back that I was inventing shortcuts to 
unneccessarily cause parts of the standard item submenu to display, when 
I could get at all those same settings in 1 long list; from the standard 
item submenu.
I think it's in Reaper Quick Start that they say right click everything, 
you never know what you might get.
Same with invented shortcuts, we might open a door to The Secret Garden, 
with all kinds of hitherto undiscovered features in there. smile.


On 4/2/2012 11:05 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> Do you guys see this?  Running windows XP.  When I run windows explore to jsut hunt around for files, and I select a file, then hit the context key to get the menu, the menu offered is different, depending on whether Reaper is running or not.
> I don't see this on the windows 7 machine.  Very strange.  When reaper is running, the menu I get looks like one where you choose which details to show in the windows explorer file listing.  A buncyh of checkboxes for title, bit rate, size etc.
> But, when I close reper, the normal open, open with, send to, all that stuff appears.
> Very strange.  Does anybody else see that?  Any idea of how to stop it?
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