OpenEuphoria

Re: I got that mail below. Any comments ?

• Posted by Raude Riwal <RAUDER at THMULTI.COM> Nov 14, 2000
• 397 views

In WinNT you can set associations from the command line or from a .bat file:
ASSOC .pl=PerlScript
FTYPE PerlScript=perl.exe %1 %*
(the example is given by HELP FTYPE)

Riwal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chrissy [SMTP:tubby.toast at NTLWORLD.COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:38 PM
> To:   EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: I got that mail below. Any comments ?
>
> >Some time back, since I was testing various installers anyway, I created
> an
> >install package for Euphoria using Inno Setup, an excellent freeware
> package
> >at:
> >
> >   http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm
> >
> >The result was a larger file that did pretty much the same thing that we
> >currently have (other than having the ability to set file associations).
> It
> >didn't seem to me demonstrably better, although it certainly looked a lot
> >nicer.
>
>
> I use Inno Setup for all my packages because I can't figure out how to do
> windows shortcuts in Euphoria - something which has been often mentioned
> by
> others here in the past.  I can do some API wrapping but the Shell Link
> interface has me stumped.  If anyone comes up with a library for this,
> they
> can certainly have my vote-money thingy for this month.
>
> I thought file associations were just a case of adding a couple of keys to
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT but I've not tried it.
>
> chris.