Activate the decryption mode if the software is called by the “Open with” command.

[aayha]

I've seen a user asking for an over complicated "File Extension Agnostic Decryption" feature. I also have the same need, but the solution is very simple and already works with Veracrypt and 7zip. There's no need to modify the GUI or select alternative extensions, it's much simpler than that, it's simply a matter of enabling native OS functions.

You can use the “Open with” menu under Windows with a memorization of the type of extensions, so I can already open an .aaa file with Picocrypt by double-clicking on it, the problem is that Picocrypt doesn't distinguish between opening from its main shortcut and calling up an opening from the “Open with” function, which Veracrypt and 7zip do. So the software doesn't understand that it has to decrypt, since even a .pcv file is not automatically recognized...

Picocrypt is actually so tedious to use without this function.

[HACKERALERT]

You can drop a .pcv into Picocrypt.exe and it will start in decrypt mode by default. Unless you can prove me wrong. This should be extended to open with, though I haven't tested myself so purely theoretical. If you can break it, show some screenshots :)

[aayha]

Again, I don't talk about drag'n'dropping files in the executable. I talk about double-clicking any .pcv files, which effectively opens the executable, but does not automatically recognize the file as one to be decrypted.

[HACKERALERT]

Open to PRs if you know how to fix 🤷

[aayha]

I don't code. It's as if you opened a text file and Word systematically opened on a blank home page, asking you to drag your file to see your text. 🤪

[HACKERALERT]

Cool, no worries. The app is portable and a lot of portable apps don't do file associations so I don't think it's that uncommon.

[aayha]

Indeed, I hope that having opened up collaboration on the Picocrypt code will enable one of the maintainers to add this function to the Installer version. Because it's very constraining to depend on drag'n'drop every time I need to decrypt a file.