1. EXW handling
Hopefully someone will find this request trivial..
I've associated exw files with exw.exe -& know how to cancel that;
however I'd like a little ditty to show
+----------------------+
| Run |
| Notepad |
| Wordpad |
+----------------------+
(apologies for fixed/pptnl font) when I dbl click a .exw file.
Obviously to run & then examine the many fine examples I find...
Pete
2. Re: EXW handling
Pete,
I did something vaguely like that in my "RunDemos" distributed with
Derek's/(Dave's) Win32Lib, such that *left* clicking on an item in a *list*
of the Win32Lib example programs RUNS the program, but *right* clicking
brings it up in Wordpad. (Note: I think the version of my "RunDemos"
included with Win32Lib may be a *down* rev version, with more current
version at Derek's website?) (Al Getz provided the "right click on list
item" detection routine to me, & it's in a Win32Lib example, too, I think.)
But to do that for just any euphoria program, from IE, I just right click on
the program icon, click "Send To", and then Wordpad or Notepad. And I added
the Euphoria Editor to the "Send To" menu (by putting a shortcut in the
"Send To" folder), so I can reference line numbers from error messages when
necessary.
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: EXW handling
Hopefully someone will find this request trivial..
I've associated exw files with exw.exe -& know how to cancel that;
however I'd like a little ditty to show
+----------------------+
| Run |
| Notepad |
| Wordpad |
+----------------------+
(apologies for fixed/pptnl font) when I dbl click a .exw file.
Obviously to run & then examine the many fine examples I find...
Pete
3. Re: EXW handling
I used to use a program called MultiLauch, a free utility downloadable
from the PC Magazine website (go to their free PC Magazine Utilities
page). It allowed you to easily make multiple associations for a file on
the right-click context menu. For example, you could right click a Readme.doc
file and choose Word,
Wordpad or Notepad.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>
> Hopefully someone will find this request trivial..
>
> I've associated exw files with exw.exe -& know how to cancel that;
> however I'd like a little ditty to show
>
> +----------------------+
> | Run |
> | Notepad |
> | Wordpad |
> +----------------------+
> (apologies for fixed/pptnl font) when I dbl click a .exw file.
> Obviously to run & then examine the many fine examples I find...
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
4. Re: EXW handling
Pete:
This works fairly the same way as deleting it.
If you have Win98 or 95 with ActiveDesktop installed:
(it doesn't have to on, just installed)
Go to: Start/Settings/Folder Options
Find the file association
Click New (Use Edit to change existing commands)
Insert the new command and the application
Press OK or Close on the rest of the windows
With Win95 without Active Desktop:
Open My Computer
Click Tools\Folder Options
Do the same as before
Your Welcome, Thank You Very Much
>From: petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
>Subject: EXW handling
>Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 21:29:12 +0000
>
>
>Hopefully someone will find this request trivial..
>
>I've associated exw files with exw.exe -& know how to cancel that;
>however I'd like a little ditty to show
>
> +----------------------+
> | Run |
> | Notepad |
> | Wordpad |
> +----------------------+
>(apologies for fixed/pptnl font) when I dbl click a .exw file.
>Obviously to run & then examine the many fine examples I find...
>
>Pete
>
>
>
>
5. Re: EXW handling
Brian,
That's neat, I never knew you could put stuff in the right click that way!
For 9x you it's almost the same, just use "Edit" after selecting Euphoria
programs instead of "Advanced", and then "New", type in something like
"View" for the action, and the link to an editor for the application to
perform the action.
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Broker" <bkb at cnw.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: EXW handling
>
> Pete,
>
> You can associate different actions for any given file type. For
> example, in Windows XP, you would do the following:
>
> Open an Explorer Window and select Tools/Folder Options/File Types, find
> and select your EXW extension and click the Advanced button. I
> typically add an "Edit" action and associate it with my favorite editor.
> I set my "Open" action as the default so that double-clicking will run
> the program but if I right click the file I can select "Edit" to have it
> come up in my file editor.
>
> The procedure for doing this in Win9x is slightly different and I don't
> have a 9x system handy to outline the steps involved but it can be
> done...
>
> If you have a 9x system and can't figure it out, let me know and I'll
> give you the procedure when I get home this evening.
>
> -- Brian
>
> Pete wrote:
> > Hopefully someone will find this request trivial..
> >
> > I've associated exw files with exw.exe -& know how to cancel that;
> > however I'd like a little ditty to show
> >
> > +----------------------+
> > | Run |
> > | Notepad |
> > | Wordpad |
> > +----------------------+
> > (apologies for fixed/pptnl font) when I dbl click a .exw file.
> > Obviously to run & then examine the many fine examples I find...
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
>
>
>
6. Re: EXW handling
WOW!
*FOUR* replies in just under an hour!
- three different ways of solving the problem,
no doubt one or more I'll get working.
Many,many thanks guys & gals.
Pete
