#532 Ability to assosiate filetypes with Homebrew Applications.

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: cheatfreak47

The currently implemented system of file assosiation works pretty well. Why not expand upon it? Add the ability to add new extention assosiations on the file extention menu.

Example:
I have tons of GB, GBC, and GBA roms. All are in .gba, .gb, or .gbc format. All are played in Visual Boy Advance GX. It'd be nice to add an option to assosiate gba, gb, and gbc files with VBA GX, so whenever I try to open one, it will ask to open VBA GX and close WiiXplorer.

Perhaps the steps that would happen in creating them could go somthing like this.

1. Click "Add New" button on file extentions menu.
2. A dialog appears asking for list of file extentions, seperated by commas. You do that.
3. A dialog appears asking you to browse to or select from the app list what the filetypes listed are assosiated with. You do that.
4*. Asks if you want to give the files a special icon for the browser. If yes, you browse to an icon in .png format (perhaps of a specific size like 32x32 or something)
5. A confirmation screen appears showing the icon, app name and file types, where you click Add or Cancel. Click Add, and you are done.

WiiXplorer will have to have some sort of "extentions.xml" or some record of filetypes/assosiated apps.

If a cirtain file extention is listed under multiple apps, the confirmation dialog that appears when you click a file will list the apps you can play/use said file with.

It would make WiiXplorer slightly  more user-friendly and it would make it more of an "explorer" on the Wii, if that makes sense.

It would also make WiiXplorer function better as a good system menu replacement, without voiding any of WiiBrew's 'app elegibility' crap. If a user wanted to assosiate .wad with a wad manager or assosiate .wbfs with USB Loader GX, then that all came from user input, and thats just fine. You see what i'm getting at here?

App/Filetype assosiation was a pretty good idea to begin with and i'd really like to see it expanded upon more to suit the users as they see fit.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: dimok...@googlemail.com

Isn't a bad idea but is not high priority at the moment. Though i might pick it up at some point again.