Replacement for SendTo menu (when native one misbehave, with missing items, as in Nilesoft Shell 1.9.18 in my case)

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SendSelectionTo (SST) menu for files and folders selections (Tested with Windows 64 bits 23H2, Nilesoft Shell 1.9.18.0 32/64bits)

This code creates a replacement menu for the native Explorer SendTo menu. It also removes the native SendTo menu.
Starting from v3 SST comes as a module : unzip .nss files under \imports\SST and add import imports\SST\SST.nss to shell.nss
Compatible with Shell 32bits running on Windows 64bits, see : #844 (comment)

The total length of this code is not small : about 3500 lines. However I did not notice a slow-down in context menu showing.

In my case the native SendTo menu exhibited a random behavior with some, or most, of SendTo items not appearing.
Credit to [RubicBG] I think for initial idea and code.
#364 (comment)

Limitations : some

• I did not create some special items : 'Compressed (zipped) folder', 'Documents (create copy)', 'Mail recipient' that can be found in the previous [RubicBG] link.
• I did not implement sending to a shortcut whose target is a folder (for copying selection to this folder) : too heavy or dangerous, however I implemented sending to any drive root (except the system drive), with some security and limitation (especially no folder overwrite/merge).

With the default option $B_Lnk_Shift_Invert=false, holding the Shift key, when sending to a shortcut, allows to send a multiple selection as multiple parameters to a single instance of a program (not all programs will support opening multiple files/folders in a single command line) : myprog.exe "selected_file_folder_1" "selected_file_folder_2" "selected_file_folder_2"

If someone wants to correct or improve this code it is free to reuse.

SendSelectionTo Version 3 :
SendSelectionTo_v3.zip

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Old version : SendSelectionTo Version 1
SendTo_Replacement.nss.txt
.
Side comments :
I have tested my code, mostly the Send (Copy) To drive root, which is the most difficult and dangerous.
I regret that menu items can not be created in a loop, with arrays, to avoid code repetition, like :
myarray=['a', 'b', 'c']
for(i=0, i<len(myarray)) {
item(title='item_' + myarray[i])
}

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Old version : SendSelectionTo Version 2
SendSelectionTo_v2.nss.txt

Code cleaning and optimizing, improving file/folder copy security, some new features and related options (that can be customized or disabled)

The options that can be changed by the user at the beginning of the 'menu' declaration :
$s_sst_before_this='' // place 'Send Selection To' before the item which has this title, empty '' sets the position to middle
$s_lnk_create_desklnk_itemtext='# Desktop (Create Shortcut(s))' // string : create shortcut(s) on desktop menuitem text
$i_lnk_col_size=30 // integer (can be <= 0 : no limit) : max .lnk items per columns (can let some gaps at the bottom for ignored .lnk files)
$b_drv_new_column=true // true or false : true create a new column for send (copy) to drives
$b_drv_icon=true // true or false : false disable trying to get an icon from the root of each drive, in case of menu slowdown
$i_drv_copy_max=99 // integer (can be <= 0 : no limit) : max allowed selected items to send (copy) to a drive root
$b_drv_copy_silent_ok=true // true or false : true disable individual info dialog after copy success (file/folder creation and file overwrite)
$b_drv_copy_silent_issue=false // true or false : true disable individual issue dialog (file overwrite confirmation and file/folder copy errors)
$b_drv_copy_silent_finished=false // true or false : true disable summary dialog after all copy operations : number selected/copied/skipped/errors

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Last version : SendSelectionTo Version 3
SendSelectionTo_v3.zip

• Performance improvements, see : How To : improve speed of display for user created sub-menus requiring complex variables to be calculated #851
• Compatibility with 32 bits Nilesoft Shell (including on 64 bits Windows, see : How To : install Nilesoft Shell both for 32 bits and 64 bits applications on Windows 64 bits #850
• Comes as a module (unzip .nss files under \imports\SST and add import 'imports\SST\SST.nss' to shell.nss)
• Better handling of multi-columns SST menu (can be disabled)
• Better security and dialogs when sending (copying) to a drive root
• More .lnk files (64/106 for Shell 32bits/64bits) can be searched in the sendto folder : 'C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo'