On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:41:27 -0500, you wrote:
>I received the full version of CW6 in the mail on Friday. During the
>installation, it nicely asked me what file type associations I'd like the
>installer to make and presented me with three choices: none, CW specific
>types only, or everything. I opted not to have it install all association
>so I can still use my external editor for .cpp and .h files. I chose the
>middle ground but ran into one hitch. The middle option doesn't include the
>association for ".rsrc" files. Double clicking on a resource file in the
>project window did nothing (not even an error) until I manually added the
>association of resource files to the constructor application.
>
>Is the ".rsrc" extension a "standard" extension? Maybe it's not and should
>be included with the group of "CW specific" extensions? Then again, maybe
>it is standard. It the later case, could the IDE tell you there's no
>association?
>
>-Paul
Better yet, why not just put up a check-box and allow *me* to decide what
associations it should make?
This should be an IDE configuration option too, so I can later go in and add new
associations or remove existing ones.
I also would like the ability to associate additional right-click options
instead of just the "open" double-click associations.
These would be things like "edit in CodeWarrior" for things like .txt files -
these options show up when you right-click on a file name.
For an example of this, you can manually set it up:
1) go to Windows Explorer
2) menu View | Folder Options
3) click on File Types
4) scroll down to "Text Document"
5) click on "Edit"
6) click on "New"
7) enter "edit in CodeWarrior" in the Action field, put in:
8) in the Application field put in: "C:\CWWPalm\bin\IDE.EXE" "%1"
---> each part is surrounded by quotes
---> the first part is the fully-qualified path to your IDE
(my CW is installed in C:\CWWPalm)
---> the second is simply "%1" (with the quotes)
---> there is a space separating the two parts
9) click "ok" (in the New Action dialog)
10 ) click "ok" (in the Edit File Type dialog)
11) click "Close" (in the Folder Options dialog)
Now when you right-click on a .TXT file you'll see "edit in CodeWarrior" as one
of the options.
I find this very convenient, as I have several IDE tools on my machines, and
it's annoying to click on a source file and have the wrong IDE start up...
I'd like it if there were an IDE configuration option that said something like:
Associate the following files with CodeWarrior:
[ ] .txt [ ] make CodeWarrior the default editor for .txt files
[ ] .c [ ] make CodeWarrior the default editor for .c files
[ ] .cpp [ ] make CodeWarrior the default editor for .cpp files
etc...
checking the first box gets the above style "edit in CodeWarrior" right-click
option.
checking the second box gets that, plus makes it the default action (default
action is what happens when you double-click the file in explorer)
- Al -
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-- Alan Weiner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.ajw.com
