quickassociation will do this and more. but it's not free. i bought it because i believe it to be the best for what it does. find it at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1654639,00.asp-nudone (May 09, 2007, 02:56 PM)
From your response I take it that adding an extra item on the right button menu like "Edit with such and such" would not fill the bill either.i agree, it ought to be fine, but the problem is that my context menu is so full of other things it takes too much trying to look through it - which is one reason i don't use the normal "Open With" menu. it simple takes too long to identify where it is in the menu.-daddydave (May 24, 2010, 11:19 AM)
(the "Open With" menu is pretty basic - so, maybe it would be nice to add extra features.)
1) As an executable that you can pass a filename to. The user will have to determine how to get and pass the filename.-skwire (May 24, 2010, 03:08 PM)
2) As a slightly more complete application that includes a hotkey and path-getting capabilities. For this, though, the utility will need to stay running.-skwire (May 24, 2010, 03:08 PM)
I'm a bit lost there - I suppose it could probably be done fairly easily with dopus - but if someone is using Explorer?
I dont see having it running all the time a problem.
- When you say "there is no one good way to get a filename/path so that's why I like to leave it up to the user (and their computer)" do you suspect it wont work for a lot of people; and / or that it would mean it very awkward to code ?-tomos (May 24, 2010, 03:30 PM)
if you could add the feature so that "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is automatically deselected when the dialog appears - then i'd say that will be near perfection.-nudone (May 25, 2010, 03:12 AM)
Regarding anything custom, I'm wondering if it might be well-suited as a FARR plugin. Do you use FARR?-skwire (May 25, 2010, 02:02 AM)
thanks for that, skwire. unfortunately it doesn't appear to work.-nudone (May 25, 2010, 04:02 AM)
would it be simpler to just send alt+a to the dialog?-nudone (May 25, 2010, 04:02 AM)
I had thought of mentioning FARR but didnt as the focus here (mine included) was on File managers.
In FARR you would have to search for the file presumably?
or could it recognise what file is selected in File Manager and work from there - that's asking a lot though I suspect :)-tomos (May 25, 2010, 03:55 AM)
Love the name btw ;-)-tomos (May 25, 2010, 03:55 AM)
Could be a Windows 7 thing since it appears to work here. It could also be that the checkbox under Windows 7 is a different ClassNN than under Windows XP. It's "Button2" under XP. Are you able to tell me what it is under Windows 7? You can use the WindowSpy utility included with a standard AHK install.-skwire (May 25, 2010, 04:10 AM)
Here you go, OpenWiff (source/binary included): http://skwire.dcmembers.com/apps/snacks/OpenWiff.zip
For a samply hotkey in AHK, you could use something like this:
[...]-skwire (May 25, 2010, 02:02 AM)
yes, that's it - Button1 works fine.
what a nice script. credits on their way...-nudone (May 25, 2010, 04:48 AM)
well, I wasnt sure how that was meant to be used but I set it up as a button in Dopus
"F:\Portable\ ...\OpenWiff.exe" {filepath}-tomos (May 25, 2010, 04:52 AM)