Re: [Mingw-users] File association problem

[Brandon S. <br...@oq...>]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:26 PM, David L Ormand wrote:
>
>> On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:05 PM, David L Ormand wrote:
>>> What DOESN'T work is trying to associate this program with an
>>> input file extension.
>>
>> You need to setup a file association.  Open-With won't go scanning
>> for every executable on your computer to populate this list.  Nor
>> would you want it to.  See the link here:
>>
>> http://winbeginners.com/articles/associations1.htm
>>
>> Add an association in the registry for your file type, or better
>> yet modify your application's installer to do it automagically for
>> you.
>
> I guess I'm not understanding you, or you're not understanding me.
> I visited the link you gave me; it is just more detail about using
> the "Open With" dialog.  I don't expect "Open With" to scan for
> every executable on my machine.  I DO expect "Open With" to allow
> me to browse for a particular executable that I want to use for a
> given filetype.

Here it is in nutshell..  Read the article i linked you to past the  
first paragraph.  Toward the end of the first page it says "Registry  
fans can use Regedit to .... Click here to see an example".  If you  
don't get it from that, by all means feel free to Google for "File  
Associations Registry" for more in depths examples and way more links  
on how to do it.

Either way, this is a Windows nuance and is not related to MinGW.



Brandon Sneed