1. Confirm File Open dialog box
- Posted by C Bouzy <eucoder at hotmail.com>
Aug 11, 2006
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Last edited Aug 12, 2006
Hello All,
I have been searching all over on how to disable the "Confirm
File Open dialog box" via the registry. I have a file type
I want my users to be able to click on a webpage, and I want that
file to download automatically without showing the dialog. I know
this can be set manually, but I want to set this via my program,
but I have no idea what registry key to alter. Does anyone know?
----If you continue to do what you have always done,
you will get what you have always gotten.----
2. Re: Confirm File Open dialog box
C Bouzy wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have been searching all over on how to disable the "Confirm
> File Open dialog box" via the registry. I have a file type
> I want my users to be able to click on a webpage, and I want that
> file to download automatically without showing the dialog. I know
> this can be set manually, but I want to set this via my program,
> but I have no idea what registry key to alter. Does anyone know?
>
>
> ----If you continue to do what you have always done,
> you will get what you have always gotten.----
You could make it a unique file type and setup the response
to that file type to be handled in a specific way.
May be this article link will help.
http://247.prenhall.com/articles/article.asp?p=359160
Bernie
My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API
Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan
3. Re: Confirm File Open dialog box
- Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com>
Aug 12, 2006
-
Last edited Aug 13, 2006
C Bouzy wrote:
>
> Hello Bernie,
>
> Thank you for the info, but that is not exactly what I need. Have you ever
> clicked on a hyperlink on a website that was linked to a certain file type,
> and instead of your browser instructing you to download/save file, the file
> just downloads and opens automatically? This is what I want to do. I already
> know how to create a new file type..etc..etc, but I do not know how to force
> that file type to open automatically when clicked on via the browser. A good
> example of this would be installing Winamp and visiting Shoutcast.com and
> clicking
> one of the play icons. The file opens automatically without prompting the user
> to
> download/save file.
>
> ----C Bouzy
>
> ----If you continue to do what you have always done,
> you will get what you have always gotten.----
Find a file type on your system that does exactly what you
want to do.
Go to View / Folder Options / File Types.
Look at that type of file and click the EDIT button
and you will see the actions window
for example the Streaming Audio / Video shortcut says
open ( in bold print )
play
So set-up your type to do exactly the same thing as the type
you are copying.
Now with regedit you can do a search of the registry.
search for .xxx ( the file extent )
This will give you the locations in the registry and the values
needed to programically set-up file type.
Bernie
My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API
Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan
4. Re: Confirm File Open dialog box
Hi Bernie,
Thanks for trying to help, but I already knew how to setup file types
via the registry. What I was trying to do is setup the file type to download
and open automatically from a webpage, without the user being asked to save
first. The good news is I found out how to do it! It was a 2 step process.
In the registry I had to set the value for both BrowsersFlags and EditFlags
for the file type. And on my server I had to setup the mime type correctly to
tell the user's broswer how to handle the file. Now when a user clicks the
file from my webpage, it launches my app without prompting the users to save.
-----C Bouzy
----If you continue to do what you have always done,
you will get what you have always gotten.----
