Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-28 Thread Joel Rees
Okay.that doesn't work. Even though it should. I also tried going to the folder options control panel and creating a new association for .rev - no luck. If this is a bug, who's is it? Why Microsoft's, of course. 8-0 Well, it really is. It's a design bug. rant Microsoft has never

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-26 Thread Gary Rathbone
Miscdas, Thanks for this, unfortunately after step 7 nothing changes. I can select Revolution, but Rev is not added to any list or options. I can follow this process for other file types eg .html and it works great. Meanwhile .rev is now associated with wordpad, which is proving quite

RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-26 Thread Kurt Kaufman
I wrote: ...Maybe RegEdit still works, has been updated, or perhaps there is a newer equivalent for WinXP Just to set the record straight: Regedit has been revised for XP. -KK ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-26 Thread miscdas
Gary Rathbone writes: Miscdas, Thanks for this, unfortunately after step 7 nothing changes. I can select Revolution, but Rev is not added to any list or options. I can follow this process for other file types eg .html and it works great. Meanwhile .rev is now associated with wordpad, which

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-26 Thread Gary Rathbone
Miscdas wrote, Are you sure you've done it correctly? I just checked Rev2.0.1 on Win 2000 Pro. Followed the instructions exactly. As I said I can get it to work with .html and other extensions but not .rev Also tried it on my Win 2000 Server (which doesn't have WinRAR) and your suggestion

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-26 Thread Monte Goulding
Howdy Try this: on mouseUp answer file Choose Rev if the result is cancel then exit mouseUp put replaceText(theF,/,\) into theF put theF,1 into dIcon put theF %1 into sCom get setRegistry(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rev\, Revolution) get setRegistry(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Revolution\,

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-26 Thread Monte Goulding
OOPS Howdy Try this: on mouseUp answer file Choose Rev if the result is cancel then exit mouseUp put replaceText(theF,/,\) into theF bugfix put replaceText(it,/,\) into theF /bugfix put theF,1 into dIcon put theF %1 into sCom get setRegistry(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rev\,

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Gary Rathbone wrote: My first question is How to I associate .rev to revolution? In the Finder, try this: Get Info (Command-I), Open With | select App | Change All... As there is only a fixed number of three letter file extensions. How does a developer,

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Gary Rathbone wrote: As there is only a fixed number of three letter file extensions. Also, the filename extension is not limited to 3 chars. That's a DOS-ism: remember 8.3 filenames? A lot of Apple's own apps use 4 or 5 letter file extensions (.mbox,

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread stephenREVOLUTION
ummm. Gary is having a problem with Windowsnot OSX unfortunately not as easy sqb On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Gary Rathbone wrote: My first question is How to I associate .rev to revolution? In the Finder, try this: Get Info (Command-I), Open With | select App | Change

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Gary Rathbone
Alex, Thanks for your prompt response. I can associate the Mac stuff, it's the Win stuff that causes problems. Mac OS X uses BOTH filename extensions and application creator codes. You can search a database here http://tcdb2000.tripod.com/ and for no charge you can reserve your own unique

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
On 7/25/03 Gary Rathbone wrote As there is only a fixed number of three letter file extensions. How does a developer, considering cross platform data files for their owns stacks, provide or register/'own' a unique or non conflicting filetype. One option to consider is to not use three letter

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ummm. Gary is having a problem with Windowsnot OSX unfortunately not as easy Whoops- sorry 'bout that. Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com

RE: RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Edwin Gore
When you go into properties and click Change the dialog that shows up with the list of Apps should have an Other... button. Click on this, navigate to the location you installed Revolution, and select Revolution.exe as the appliaction to open .rev files. As far as figuring out what extensions

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Gary Rathbone wrote: My first question is How to I associate .rev to revolution? Good news: There is a way. Bad news: My PC broke and I'm only now reinstalling VPC on OS X and I can't remember how to do the association. As there is only a

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Gary Rathbone wrote: However I also use WinRAR which according to filext.com uses the .rev extension (with a few other packages) as its own. I need to learn to read. I wouldn't have suggested that there was such a website, if I could. Dar

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Gary Rathbone wrote: When I save a rev stack I use (the suggested) .rev extension. For stacks that are essentially plugins to your own standalone, you might want your own extension. Dar Scott

RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Gary Rathbone
When you go into properties and click Change the dialog that shows up with the list of Apps should have an Other... button. Click on this, navigate to the location you installed Revolution, and select Revolution.exe as the appliaction to open .rev files. Done this, and selecting revolution

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Edwin Gore
Okay.that doesn't work. Even though it should. I also tried going to the folder options control panel and creating a new association for .rev - no luck. If this is a bug, who's is it? - --- Original Message --- - From: Edwin Gore To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Jul 2003

RE: RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Edwin Gore
The ling is - I don't have WinRAR on this machine, and it still won't do it. Windows pays no attention at all to who officially owns a file extension (unlike, for example, Apple), so I cannot think of a single reason this should happen, unless there is something corrupt about the registery

RE: RE: RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Edwin Gore
Nope - uninstalling and re-installing doesn't reassociate the files either. Looks like it's time for a bug report... - --- Original Message --- - From: Edwin Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:55:51 The ling is - I don't have WinRAR on this

Re: RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/25/03 6:05 PM, Edwin Gore wrote: Nope - uninstalling and re-installing doesn't reassociate the files either. Looks like it's time for a bug report... Before you do that, have you tried using Install-Uninstall programs in the control panels to remove winRAR (if it is in there) and Rev? Once

RE: Re: RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Edwin Gore
Unfortunately, I don't have WinRAR on the machine that I am trying this on. I even tried deleting the Registry Keys for .rev and then reinstalling...still no luck. - --- Original Message --- - From: J. Landman Gay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:39:28 On 7/25/03

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Robert J. Earp wrote: If I remember correctly, from Windows Explorer I went into the Tools:Folder Options:File Types, scrolled down to REV entry and deleted it. (It was associated with WinRAR as with your system) Is Revolution supposed to register it on

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Is Revolution supposed to register it on installation? That would be cool! A give a choice if there is a conflict with another. Dar Scott Dar Scott

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: Is Revolution supposed to register it on installation? Maybe another good question would be: Is Microsoft ever going to show an interest in managing this issue of file associations as Apple does? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2:

Re: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread miscdas
Gary Rathbone writes: This in an annoying distraction which I'm sure will have an easy answer. When I save a rev stack I use (the suggested) .rev extension. However I also use WinRAR which according to filext.com uses the .rev extension (with a few other packages) as its own. This means

RE: .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Chipp Walters
They already do... Se miscdas's post.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .rev file association issues Alex Rice wrote: Is Revolution supposed

RE .rev file association issues

2003-07-25 Thread Kurt Kaufman
I remember back when I was using Oracle Media Objects (which required distribution of a runtime player along with stacks) I would use a utility called RegEdit to produce a script that, when run, would alter the Windows registry to associate the stacks with the player. This was Windows 95,