Creting Your Own Format

[DIIST]

My compiler: someting Borland.

Basically i created my own format .thuvs, which is can do multiple things like hold image data, music,etc. . The Problem is i want to make it so that when ever you click a file with the extension ".thuvs", it will call my progy. How do you do that? I know the classically way is to just go rightclick->OpenWidth->Allways open this file with..., but how do you make it so the when you first run the program it automatically assigns it to be the default program to open any ".thuvs" with? Plus how the hell do you read the file when your prgy is run. Do you get the fileinfo from run args

[JakeP]

I'm going to assume you're in Windows.

If I remember correctly that info is stored in the registry (urg)

[Clayton]

well I don't know about coding it, but you can right click on the icon -> Open With, choose the program from the list, and click the little box that says use this program all the time (or something similiar)

[DIIST]

Forget reading form the file i figured out how to do that part, but still, isnt there anything like a packager or an installer that can do this for you, instead of manulay clicking it. I mean it be cooler if you could just click any file with the extension and it would just open and run. Instead of asking the user to rightclick and do this for you. I mean where the user friendly interface in that?

[Mazer]

JakeP already said it. You'll need to play around with the registry. More than that, I don't know; let Google be your guide.

[md]

Linux doesn't have a registry, I don't know what you people are talking about anyways; nautilus, thunar (xfce4's file browser), and kde's file browser all recognize file types on their own, independent of extension sometimes. If they don't know how to open things they ask once and remember what you choose (I think windows will do that too).

Whatever it is your doing however; you have to ask yourself if creating a new file type is actually worth it. There are a lot of standard formats out there which will do almost anything you could want.

[Andy]

who said he was on linux?

[md]

Andy wrote:

who said he was on linux?

And who said he was using windows? I was making the point that everyone (correctly) assumed windows; and even if everyone is right, those of us who use linux still feel left out.

My point about not really needing to create your own file type still stands. Even if you do need to create your own format you might not need to assosiate it with your program. For things like games loading a save from outside the game is not usually needed.

[bugzpodder]

Does anyone know ppl from MS? I want to buy vista and office 07 at a cheap price

[ericfourfour]

If you really want a "multi-use" format, why not use .rar, .zip, and etc.? I'm sure there are libraries written for them as well.

[Mazer]

bugzpodder wrote:

Does anyone know ppl from MS? I want to buy vista and office 07 at a cheap price

Wow, wtf?

[DIIST]

Im using windows, and im wondering if anyone knows how you can alter the regesty using C. I did try googling it but ended up with a lot of confusing stuff with warnings and disclaimers.

[Andy]

pass your regkey as arguments to regedit.exe or

or create a regfile. system("regedit test.reg") where test.reg is the name of your regfile. for sample of what reg file should look like:

code:

REGEDIT4 ; ======================= ; Coolbits 2 ; >> Installation File ; ======================= [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak] "NvCplExposeWin2kDualView"=dword:00000001 "NvCplTvLocaleAutoDetect"=dword:00000001 "NvCplAllowForceTVDetection"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnableActiveApp"=dword:00000001 "DisableApplyColorsAtStartup"=dword:00000000 "NoMenus"=dword:00000000 "OverlayPageState"=dword:00000000 "CinematicPageState"=dword:000000ff "NvCplThermalSettings"=dword:00000020 "NvCplEnableScreenMenuPage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplCustomResConfig"=dword:00000000 "NvCplEnableAdditionalInfoPage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplDisablePerfQualPage"=hex:00,00,00,00 "NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001 "CoolBits"=dword:ffffffff "NvCplEnableOverlaySpanControl"=dword:00000001 "TwinViewCapsOverride"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnableDesktopOverlapPage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnableTroubleshootingPage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplDisableRefreshRatePage"=dword:00000000 "NvCplDisableRotateAngles"=dword:00000000 "NoPages"=dword:00000000 "NvCplEnableClearViewPage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnableFanControl"=dword:00000003 "NvCplEnableFrameSyncPage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnablenForcePage"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnablePwrMzrOnDesktopMenu"=dword:00000001 "NvCplEnableRotationColorSettings"=dword:00000001 "NvCplNvThermPage"=dword:00000001 "PowermizerPreferences"=dword:00000000 "QTwkEnableModeChangeWarning"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL\Debug] "ShaderObjects"=dword:00000001

[haskell]

If you want a quick fix on Windows:

code:

- Open "My Computer" - Then on the Menu bar click Tools -> Folder Options - Click the "File Types" tab. - Then you can click "New - Put in the file extension and the program to associate it with.

Also if you can use this Google search.