File Associations?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

It is right that you need to catch the relaunch message in the stack  
script of the stack that is opened first. This is always the stack  
that is embedded in the executable. It can't be any other stack. In  
your case, it is the splash stack. As far as I know, this is all  
explained in the documentation, even though it might be a bit brief.

I referred to this http://qurl.tk/4x example before. It works  
perfectly for me, on Win 98 up to and including Vista. I don't know  
about Win 7 (yet).

I do always use very short names for my executables. The paths always  
end in 8.3 DOS file names. The application names, as displayed in the  
Add/Remove Software control panel and in other palces, can be longer  
than that.

I wonder whether something has changed in 4.5. I haven't used Rev 4.5  
for my installer yet. Something has changed with regard to icons of  
Windows executables and perhaps it affects the icon that needs to be  
associated with your file extension. RunRev should be able to tell you  
this.

Maybe you should post your script.

--
Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 3 mrt 2010, om 19:07 heeft Scott Rossi het volgende geschreven:

> Recently, Scott Morrow wrote:
> Thanks Scott.
>
> I'm part way to a solution.  Apparently "relaunch" only works with  
> the stack
> bound to the engine in the splash standalone.  I was trying to use  
> it with
> the main stack opened by the splash app (the splash stack was  
> immediately
> closed after launch).
>
> I also learned how to get the path of a double-clicked document  
> using the
> environment variable $1 at startup, so if my app is launched by a  
> document,
> it will load the document after launching.
>
> But I'm still facing the disassociated file issue.  Documents saved  
> by my
> app with a custom file extension continue to show up with the generic
> Windows document icon, instead of the custom icon in my standalone,  
> and
> bring up the "choose application" dialog when double-clicked. I  
> tried your
> suggestion of manually assigning the icon via file properties, and  
> it did
> change (to the icon of an app somewhere else on the drive), but I'm  
> not sure
> where in the registry this was updated (if at all).
>
> [sigh] Hours being sucked away by these details...
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>