Open file with double click

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Pete,

Just a quick answer. You can set file associations for OSX in the OSX 
tab of the standalone application settings window. Installer Maker 
manages the file associations on Windows. I'm not sure how to do this in 
Linux, but I think double-clicking an unassociated file in Ubuntu would 
show a window with an option to choose an app. I think you can also set 
file associations in a .desktop file, but I'm not sure how this works.

On all desktop platforms, you can use $1 to determine if a file was 
double-clicked to trigger the launch of the application. $1 contains the 
file path.

You need to check out the relaunch message in the docs. Create a 
relaunch handler that doesn't return anything (or returns empty). You 
can also use the relaunch message to open a document on Windows.

On Mac OS X, you'd use apple events if an app is running already.

Again, I'm not sure how this works on Linux. It should be possible for a 
standalone to determine if a process is running already and somehow tell 
that process to open a file.

(As soon as I figure this out for Linux, I'll add it to Installer Maker).


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On 8/1/2013 01:47, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Is it possible to associate a file extension with a standalone application
> so the standalone runs when a user double clicks on a file with the
> extension?  Multiple file extensions?  This would be for all three desktop
> platforms.
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>