Re: Open with... not working on WinXP

At 16:05 07/05/03, Irene Vatton wrote:
>
>On Wednesday 02 May 2007 18:14, Keith Rubow wrote:
>> I also have this problem on both of my WinXP machines. I have completely
>> uninstalled and reinstalled Amaya several times to upgrade to the latest
>> versions, but "Open With" continues to not work. Even if I select Open
>> With->Chose Program... and browse to c:\Program
>> Files\Amaya\WindowsWX\bin\amaya.exe, click Open and OK, it does NOT open
>> with Amaya, nor does Amaya get added to the list of applications in the
>> Open With list. Instead it opens with the first application in the Open
>> With list. This is very annoying. I can, however, drag and drop the file
>> to be opened onto the Amaya desktop shortcut.
>
>When you install Amaya you have to associate Amaya to file extensions.
>This is not automatic.

I have had problems, too, although I don't remember the exact details.
Overall, there are several issues:

1) The 'main' program associated with a file time (i.e. extention).
   That's the program you get when you doubleclick on that program.
   For Amaya and .html, for example, that's only appropriate for
   people who use Amaya as a browser, and not only as an editor.
   That also usually decides the icon associated with the extension.
2) The list of programs that get shown when you use right click and
   "Open from Program" (or whatever that's called in English; I have
   a Japanese version of Windows.
3) Whether that "Open from Program" actually works,
   a) When Amaya is not started up
   b) When Amaya is already running

I just tried, and in my case, 2)/3) work okay (but slowly, because
opening a document in Amaya is pretty slow), but I'm not using 1).
My Amaya version currently is 9.5 Apr 12 2006.

Regards,    Martin.

>> Keith Rubow
>>
>> Steven Pemberton wrote:
>> > While I'm writing I should report another problem I have on WinXP:
>> >
>> > If I right click on an HTML document, and select Open With... and
>> > browse to Amaya, Amaya neither gets added to the list of available
>> > programs for that sort of file, nor does Amaya get used once I click
>> > on OK.
>> >
>> > Amaya 9.53, WinXP, though I have had the problem for a few versions
>> > now. It used to work, but I don't know which the last version was that
>> > worked; sorry!
>> >
>> > Steven Pemberton
>> >
>> > .
>
>-- 
>     Ir$BoO(Be.
>-----
>Ir$BoO(Be Vatton                     INRIA Rh$B‡O(Be-Alpes
>INRIA                               ZIRST
>e-mail: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr       655 avenue de l'Europe
>Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 61             Montbonnot
>Fax:  +33 4 76 61 52 07             38334 Saint Ismier Cedex - France


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

Received on Friday, 4 May 2007 02:41:34 UTC