Oops, sorry - hit send by mistake... Here's what I meant to say:
> problem. I can not get Windows to open .fl files with fluid. > I'd like to be able to double-click on a .fl file and have it > opened by fluid. Windows won't let me associate fluid with > .fl files. I've tried by using 'Open With' or by changing the > file properties. In both cases a browser comes up which is > supposed to let me navigate around till I find the app I want > to associate with .fl extensions. I select fluidd.exe, but > it's ignored? It forces me to use Photoshop to open the .fl > file. The only way I can open a .fl file with fluid right now > is to start fluid up explicitly, then browse thru my folders > to the .fl file. Ideas anyone? Yes. My idea is that Windows is a bit s*** and in this case presents several overlapping (and seemingly incompatible) ways to do the same thing. I had this same problem before, on WinXP, here's what I did to make it work. In Explorer, select Tools > Folder Options On the Folder Options dialog select the File Types tab. Wait while the dialog is populated with the details of all the file types it knows. Scroll down this list until you find the entry for FL (assuming one exists - there was one on all my machines, and it was "wrong", hence the problem... I assume it had been set by some other random tool...) Now edit the properties (via the "Change..." button) to make it point at fluid correctly. Now, this is where it got tricky... On at least one box, .fl files had previously been (successfully) associated with the fluid from 1.1.9. The 1.1.9 install had since been removed and replaced with the 1.3 install (at a different path.) When I updated the mapping to point to the new fluid, it seemed to "take" but it became immediately obvious that the stupid windows mechanism was seeing the "fluid.exe" part, and going "Oh! I know what that is" and pointing it back to the now non-existent 1.1.9 fluid... So attempts to open the files all failed. What I did there was copied the fluid.exe to "new-fluid.exe" and that worked - but that's a bit of a rubbish workaround so there must be a better way - probably some nasty registry hack. Or sticking the new fluid at the path the old one used to be, or something. In any case, it should not be this hard! SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list fltk@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
