File Association

[Tamil]

Currently we have to specify application for each file extension separately. What about the following?

+htm;html>?:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe
+7z;rar;zip>?:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe

Instead of following one.

+htm>?:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe
+html>?:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe
+7z>?:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
+rar>?:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
+zip>?:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe

[avsfan]

Ooooh! Neat idea! (and much more concise, too!) Especially if one changes zip programs, etc...

[itsme28m]

Great idea!

[lukescammell]

I like this

Just out of interest, can we use relative paths with that? I havne't even tried, but if we could that would rock as I could then link things to my other portable apps

[j_c_hallgren]

Ditto! Redundancy reduction is almost always a good thing!

[jacky]

Yep, sounds pretty cool!

Just out of interest, can we use relative paths with that? I havne't even tried, but if we could that would rock as I could then link things to my other portable apps

Can't use relative paths no, but relative to what would they be?

Anyways, as shown what you can do is use the question mark, which will be replaced internally with the letter of the drive XYplorer is running from.

This means that when using XY from a portable drive (USB stick, CD, etc) you can have XYplorer open files (when you double-click or press Enter) using your own applications from the same drive independently of the local file associations or the local drive mapping!

[lukescammell]

Just out of interest, can we use relative paths with that? I havne't even tried, but if we could that would rock as I could then link things to my other portable apps

Can't use relative paths no, but relative to what would they be?

Relative to the XY executable.

Anyways, as shown what you can do is use the question mark, which will be replaced internally with the letter of the drive XYplorer is running from.

OK, this works apart from the fact that I use my portable apps in a slightly strange way I don't have enough space on my flash drive (I'm always trying to cram something new in) so I compress my portable apps at the end of the day before taking them with me home. While at work and at home I extract them to a temporary directory. This gives me the added bonus of more speed and the ability to enable some features in certain programs (eg. Thunderbird, spam filtering) that would otherwise knacker my USB drive pretty quickly. Because of this, I can't actually use the ? as the temp dirs are in different places on both machines. I guess I could recreate my work location on my home computer, but this isn't exactly elegant, and I usually just extract the whole thing into a dir on my desktop.

For example, in the following directory structure:

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+PortableApps
|-[7-ZipPortable]
|-[AbiWordPortable]
|-[BRU]
|-[ClamWinPortable]
|-[FileZillaPortable]
|-[FirefoxPortable]
|-[jEdit]
|-[KeePass Password Safe]
|-[MirandaPortable]
|-[Putty]
|-[SkypePortable]
|-[SunbirdPortable]
|-[ThunderbirdPortable]
|-[TS2AdminClient]
|-[VLCPortable]
|-[XYplorer]
|-PStart.exe
|-PStart.xml
|-upx.exe
|-upx.txt
|-VPS, BoltConnect.rdp

I would use the following:

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+htm>..\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe
+html>..\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe
+7z>..\7-ZipPortable\7-ZipPortable.exe
+rar>..\7-ZipPortable\7-ZipPortable.exe
+zip>..\7-ZipPortable\7-ZipPortable.exe

or better still

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+htm;html>..\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe
+7z;rar;zip>..\7-ZipPortable\7-ZipPortable.exe

[admin]

Okidoki! 2 cool ideas, just implemented!

[lukescammell]

XY ftw! \o/

[Tamil]

2 cool ideas, just implemented!

Thanks.