Hello list, the problem I ran in to will probably have happened to at a lot of you allready:
"When double clicking an MBX it tries to open twice! This cuases some of my routines to fail with a variety of error messages." The answer lies in the fact that the windows file association tempts to open the files with extension .MBX first via a conventional method and second via DDE. The way it is opened best is arbitrary (maybe someone can tell me why I should take which method) I am going for conventional. I manually turned off the DDE way and grabbed the ------------------Following applies FOR WINDOWS '98 only!-------------------------------- copy and paste the following code into an empty txt-file, (the "\" is like a carriage return linefeed, don't past the lines together), save it as MBX_FIX98.REG double click the file to update the registry settings: -----------------------MBX_FIX98.REG---------------------------------------- -------------------- REGEDIT4 [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mbxfile\shell\open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mbxfile\shell\open] @="MapInfo Professional 6.5 MBX File" "EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mbxfile\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\MAPINFO\\PROFESSIONAL\\MAPINFOW.EXE\" -noexec \"%1\"" "command"=hex(7):6f,30,71,4d,52,33,60,24,29,3f,39,46,57,2c,46,75,7b,2c,64,6d ,\ 4d,61,70,49,6e,66,6f,50,72,6f,46,69,6c,65,73,3e,73,5a,43,72,2c,4a,29,38,34,\ 3d,32,43,2e,35,2b,21,6c,21,4d,5d,20,22,25,31,22,00,00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- (I created the file so it can be distributed with an installation package for commercial MBX'es) ****Is there anyone who can provde us list-ers with the right reg-information to do the same under the other WIN platforms? Good luck and good fun! Milo van der Linden, netGIS Lemmingweide 8 3437TT Nieuwegein Kvk. Utrecht nr. 30166407 ABN Amro 57.64.10.535 Fax. +31(0)848617820 mob.+31(0)616598808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
