v1.0

Krita Shell Extension

Release Version: 1.0

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

License

Please refer to COPYING.txt.

Acknowledgement

This software uses the libzip library, which in turn uses the zlib library.

For the license of libzip, please refer to COPYING_libzip.txt.

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, so the Visual Studio Runtime 2015 would be needed for them to run properly.

Installing

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.

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.