checking removable drives

[Richard Gaskin]

Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>>
>> With Rev's ability to read and write the Windows directory, it  would 
>> be simple enough to make the registry entries for the file  type 
>> association.  But for true portability this should not happen  when 
>> running from a removable drive, the goal being zero-footprint  when 
>> the drive is removed.
> 
> 
> Can't you just clear out the registry entries when the app quits?   Even 
> if your app crashes, it would clean itself up next time it ran.   This 
> way while the app was running people could double-click files  and have 
> them open in your app.

We could, but it obviates the biggest benefit of the file-type 
association:  being able to launch the app by double-clicking a document.

We'd still get that behavior on Mac, just not on Win or Linux (the 
latter has messy and inconsistent mechanisms for such associations 
anyway; barely worth bothering with until the teams that make Linux 
window managers get together and use a single simple standard).

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