Under Mathematica 10.3 I had customized the context menu to include “Copy as Bitmap” for “GraphicsBox” and “Image” selections by inserting a line
MenuItem["Copy as &Bitmap", FrontEndExecute[ FrontEndToken[FrontEnd`SelectedNotebook[], "CopySpecial", "MGF"]]]
in the appropriate places in the file $InstallationDirectory\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\ContextMenus.tr
The same does no longer work under 10.4. What has changed? Has anybody else had that problem?
InstallationDirectory has changed from 10.3 to 10.4. If you want to keep customized items across minor releases put them in analogical places inside $UserBaseDirectory.
I updated the new Text Resource in the 10.4 directory, namely
C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\10.4\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\ContextMenus.tr
How would I modify a context menu in the init.m file?
You probably can’t I meant something different.
Instead of messing with Installation Directory you can modify/copy appriopriate files in/to UserBaseDirectory and safely edit them. Moreover, UserBaseDirectory is version independent (usually).
So the point is, keep ContextMenus.tr in UserBaseDirectory / SystemFiles / FrontEnd / TextResources / ContextMenus.tr.
For example, here is the analogical procedure of customizing MenuBar with additional items by moving and editing appriopriate files:
Danke for the link. I get your point, but my actual problem is missing the “Copy as &Bitmap”. I am curious if it works on the Mac or under Linux. I have not had much time to experiment so far.
Cheers, Martin
In Version 11.1.0.0 it works again 