I Need Help With File Association

[mburaksaglik]

Hello my friends,
First of all, I'm sorry for my bad English.

I need help with file association.
For example;
There is a text file named "mytest.mtn" on the desktop.
When I double-click this file, my program should open and the text inside the file "mytest.mtn" should be written to the Input object.

For example, when I double-click the file "mytest.txt", the program named "notepad.exe" opens. Then, we display the texts inside the file named "mytest.txt" in the program named "Notepad".
I want to make a program like this.

How can I do this practice?

Can you give me an example of this?
I would be grateful if you could help me with this.

Sincerely yours..

[Centauri Soldier]

If I recall, my Project plugin will do this. Try Project.Associate(). That should do what you want. Let me know if that doesn't work and I'll try to figure out way.

[Ulrich]

Also, this post may help. It was written for Setup Factory, but will work with AutoPlay Media Studio. Just know that, for changing the default handler for a file extension, admin rights are required, so your AutoPlay Media Studio application needs to run "as administrator". Normally, an application should not use this setting, and the file association should be set up during the installation...

Ulrich

[mburaksaglik]

Also, this post may help. It was written for Setup Factory, but will work with AutoPlay Media Studio. Just know that, for changing the default handler for a file extension, admin rights are required, so your AutoPlay Media Studio application needs to run "as administrator". Normally, an application should not use this setting, and the file association should be set up during the installation...

Ulrich

Dear friend, thank you for helping. But unfortunately I have already associated the file extension I want (eg .rkl) with my program via the Windows Registry.
Okay. No problem so far.

Now, I want to double-click the file "test.rkl" on the desktop and open it on the Grid object in my application "Rast.exe".

I showed what I wanted to do in a file called "HelpMe.png". Please review those pictures.

Please help me with this!

[mburaksaglik]

Dear friend, thank you for helping. But unfortunately I have already associated the file extension I want (eg .rkl) with my program via the Windows Registry.
Okay. No problem so far.

Now, I want to double-click the file "test.rkl" on the desktop and open it on the Grid object in my application "Rast.exe".

I showed what I wanted to do in a file called "HelpMe.png". Please review those pictures.

Please help me with this!

Is there anyone who can help me with this?

[daviz]

mburaksaglik
I believe what you are asking is not being understood.

[charliechaps]

mburaksaglik instead of shouting why not post some code so that you may receive help, if you have the assoc done then why not just simply use

-- Load values from a txt file into the grid.
-- Also note that this uses a semicolon rather than a comma as the separator
Desktop_Folder = Shell.GetFolder(SHF_DESKTOP_COMMON);

Grid.LoadFromFile("Grid1", Desktop_Folder.."\\test.rkl", ";", true);

you may have to change your text file to include semicolon or comma etc
Just treat your unique named file as a simple text file, you could also use loop to insert

[mburaksaglik]

mburaksaglik instead of shouting why not post some code so that you may receive help, if you have the assoc done then why not just simply use

-- Load values from a txt file into the grid.
-- Also note that this uses a semicolon rather than a comma as the separator
Desktop_Folder = Shell.GetFolder(SHF_DESKTOP_COMMON);

Grid.LoadFromFile("Grid1", Desktop_Folder.."\\test.rkl", ";", true);

you may have to change your text file to include semicolon or comma etc
Just treat your unique named file as a simple text file, you could also use loop to insert

I couldn't imagine writing the text big would mean shouting. So I'm sorry. But I guess I haven't explained my problem properly yet.

Well, let me ask you this way:
There is a standard text file. (Ex: abc.txt)
When you open this file, normally "notepad.exe" is opened as standard and the texts in it are displayed through this program.

I want to do such a procedure, but I haven't found how to do it yet.

All I want to do is;
I want to view it with my own program when I click on it to open the file with the extension "*.rkl" in any folder. And I want to do this when I haven't opened my program yet.

Actually, what I want to do seems to be a very simple process, but unfortunately I have a hard time explaining my problem.

My English is very bad. That's why I use Google translation.

I hope you understand me this time.

I would be grateful if you help me with this.

Sincerely yours.

[daviz]

All I want to do is;
I want to view it with my own program...[]...And I want to do this when I haven't opened my program yet.
Sincerely yours.

this is confusing or contradictory.

David

[Imagine Programming]

this is confusing or contradictory.

David

No, it is not;

He wants his program to be launched when you double click the custom file type.
He wants the simple filetype association stuff to happen, however (I assume) he is stuck at the part where he doesn't know how to display the opened file after double clicking the file.

He needs the Program Parameters for that.

[mburaksaglik]

No, it is not;

He wants his program to be launched when you double click the custom file type.
He wants the simple filetype association stuff to happen, however (I assume) he is stuck at the part where he doesn't know how to display the opened file after double clicking the file.

He needs the Program Parameters for that.

Finally.. I think you understand me!

I think you'd understand better if I hadn't mentioned the file extension when I told you about my problem.

Let's put the file extension aside for now (forget it)!

I will try to explain it to you via a standard text file called "abc.txt", so that you can understand it very easily.

Imagine if I built a text file viewer program through AMS. (E.g.: Notepad)

Imagine my program is closed yet.

Let it be a standard text file. (E.g.: abc.txt)

When I click to open this file, I can view the texts in it through my own program.

-----in brief-----

I want it to be displayed through my own program when I click on any text file.

I would be happy if you send me a sample study on this project.


Sincerely yours.

[mburaksaglik]

When I click to open this file, I can view the texts in it through my own program.

--Correction--

When I click to open this file, I want to display the texts in it with my own program.

[daviz]

... if you have the assoc done then why not just simply use

-- Load values from a txt file into the grid.
-- Also note that this uses a semicolon rather than a comma as the separator
Desktop_Folder = Shell.GetFolder(SHF_DESKTOP_COMMON);

Grid.LoadFromFile("Grid1", Desktop_Folder.."\\test.rkl", ";", true);

you may have to change your text file to include semicolon or comma etc
Just treat your unique named file as a simple text file, you could also use loop to insert

the example of charliechaps does not help?

David

[mburaksaglik]

the example of charliechaps does not help?

David

Unfortunately, that's not exactly what I wanted.

[charliechaps]

Did you try the project plugin by Centauri , it gives you the file path of the calling file

Project.GetFileCode

(table) Project.GetFileCode (

(string) Extension = ".txt" )

Description

Dermines whether or not the program was opened by a calling file with the specified extension.

Parameters

Extension

(string) The allowed file type. Returns

(table) Returns a table indexed by Code and File.

If the program was called by the specified file type then the Code value is 1 and the File value is the path to the calling file.

If the program was called by a file but not of the specified type then the Code value is -1 and the File value is the path to the calling file.

If the program was not called by a file then the Code value is 0 and the File value is a blank string.

Example

local tReturn = Project.GetFileCode(".skde");

if tReturn.Code == 1 then
Dialog.Message("Success", "Program opened with file...\r\n"..tReturn.File);
elseif tReturn.Code == -1 then
Dialog.Message("Error", "That file type is not supported.");
end

So then you can use that to load your file into Grid / Input / Para etc - That is assuming that you have got your file assocation to open your program