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Win7 Program Associations are not Automatic #4

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Problem:
When ABox launches it attempts to add settings in the Windows Registry that 
associate .ABox and .ABox2 files with the currently launching ABox executable. 
In previous versions of Windows (up through WinXP) this worked correctly. In 
Win7 it does not -- double clicking on a .ABox2 file always summons an OS 
'choose an app' dialog.

Recommend:
*Explore the 'load_app_settings' and 'registry' functions during app_start. 
ABox uses an ABox_auto_file key in the registry -- perhaps that method no 
longer works or is being rejected. The alternative of using the complicated and 
error prone OLE registration strikes this author as undesirable. There may be 
other ways to set the file associations as well.
*It might also be the case that Win7 requires security descriptors that ABox is 
not providing. If such is the case, it should be simple to add in the source 
code.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andyt7...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2011 at 6:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Removed due to improper googedit formatting

Original comment by andyt7...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 8:39