[Fxruby-users] Re: Fxruby-users digest, Vol 1 #57 - 2 msgs

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First off, Sorry for the double mailing to the list. I had a bit of 
trouble with my email provider...

jeroen wrote:

>The FXDirList in FOX 1.0 did have this bug under Windows; the new one in
>FOX 1.1.x however shows the list of drives as it was supposed to.  
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Ah, great. My bad - will find an upgrade then, if it is available for 
FXRuby. :)

>The workaround for the old FXDirList is to prefix the drive letter in
>front of the path; if you don't, the routines which turn a path into
>a normalized absolute path will slap the default drive letter in front
>[it will also expand environment variables and simplify the path].
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Actually, I did prefix with the drive letter. I realized afterward that 
there was a bigger problem than it ignoring my path, it probably really 
should show all drives, which it didn't. OTOH, this is apparently fixed 
in newer versions, so I'll upgrade.

>As for the file types, it is as follows.  On Windows, FOX uses the 
>registry but continues to follow its own bindings-database; 
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For someone not too familiar with the framework yet, can I find and use 
this database somewhere, to build upon when starting to build my own 
list if needed?

>it *is* 
>possible to write a tool which populates this bindings database
>from the "normal" Windows associations [the native file- associations
>are splattered all over the place, and in some cases the icons have to
>be lifted out of executables].
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Yeah, true that. Though I thought that there would be some kind of 
central repository or something, since a *lot* of third party programs, 
file managers and the like does manage to use the correct icons even if 
they don't use the built-in Win components. Of course, they might just 
have been doing a huge amount of hacking.

>On Unix, one can simply drop a text file (the FOX registry is human-readable
>text on UNIX) into $HOME/.foxrc/Desktop and have bindings available for 
>all applications.
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Yeah, I've seen how the system works, and I think I can manage to build 
my own associations if I have to. The thing I'd really like though was 
to steal any system associations, if available,  at least to provide a 
start. :)

Thanks a lot, that makes things a bit clearer... I'll probably come back 
with some more in a moment, though. ;)

-- Kristoffer

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