Re: EXW handling
- Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Jan 07, 2002
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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 > > > > > > >