file-association

A question is about Wix and setting the icon of an advertised shortcut: If your installer contains a manual, or document in say .pdf format and you want to create a shortcut to the PDF file. Is it possible to use an icon for the shortcut based on the systems file associations? e.g. User has Adobe reader, the shortcut gets adobe pdf icon. User has Foxit/Other reader, the shortcut gets that program icon instead. etc. As far as I understand the installer magic, this is not possible. This has nothing to do with Wix but is a general MSI behaviour. Thus you would need to use un-advertised shortcuts

I'm looking for a way to programatically tweak the particulars of a file association on a Windows system. For example, the "Application User to Perform this Action" setting for the "Open" action for a particular file type. Clearly I could do this by modifying the registry directly, but if there is an API I'd prefer to use that as it would likely be more resilient to changes in the OS handling of mapping extensions to applications. For my purposes I'm needing to write this in VBScript (.VBS) file because it is part of a package to be used with VMWare ThinApp that mandates it. However, I'll port

Background: We can use a combination of PATHEXT and the Windows file associations to do the Command Prompt equivalent of right-clicking a file in Explorer and clicking Open , e.g.: C:\code\python> echo print "Hello, StackOverflow!" >hello.py C:\code\python> hello Hello, StackOverflow! Similarly, I could use this to launch Photoshop by typing: C:\art\source> StackOverflowLogo.PDF The Actual Problem: I need the command prompt equivalent of right-clicking the file in Explorer and selecting Edit instead. With my hello(.py) above, that would likely bring up Python's Idle editor. However, I need a

I created a custom file extension I would associate to a batch script. I used ASSOC .myext=MY.FILETYPE FTYPE MY.FILETYPE=cmd /c "C:\Path\of\my\batch.bat" %1 %* by now the batch file "C:\Path\of\my\batch.bat" is a simple one-liner echo %1 And roughly works: double clicking a .myext file pops up a cmd shell echoing the file path. But a problem arises when the .myext file is in a path containing spaces: the echoed filepath is truncated to the space. Double quoting the %1 in the FTYPE statement seems not to work. FTYPE MY.FILETYPE=cmd /c "C:\Path\of\my\batch.bat" "%1" %* Double quoting %1 is

I would like to associate a specific file type with my application, so when I double-click one of the files of this specific type, my application opens. This works just fine, but the file I double-clicked does not get passed as an argument to my program. If I for instance associate my application with txt files and I double-click todo.txt , my application opens, but I have no idea which txt file I double-clicked. From what I can read, this is how it's supposed to work on OS X, and instead of relying on the default behaviour (how it works on e.g. Windows), I should use ApplicationListener

I have developed a Mac application using Qt 5.3.2. This application handles files with specific extension (lets say .xyz ). I have created an icon file named XYZ.icns and added it to my app bundle Resource folder ( MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/XYZ.icns ). I have also modified the bundle's Info.plist file in order to set the file association. I have added this entry: <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key> <array> <!-- Registered file accociation --> <dict> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Editor</string> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key> <string>XYZ</string> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key> <array>