For brevity, I’m using a fake root key. In practice, replace Hive_Key with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for system default settings, or HKEY_CURRENT_USER for per-user settings. Either of these keys are allowed to exist, or both. If they both exist, the HKCU key takes precedence. To associate an extension with a file type, you need to set the … Read more
Actually, @CrazyCoder is right: If you accidentally mis-labeled the file, PyCharm remembers it and sets a “pattern” for the new file based on the name. So go to Settings | Editor | File Types, find the type you accidentally mislabeled and remove it from the “Registered Patterns” list. For example, I mislabed “osm.py” as text … Read more
Just write System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@”file path”); example System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@”C:\foo.jpg”); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@”C:\foo.doc”); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@”C:\foo.dxf”); … And shell will run associated program reading it from the registry, like usual double click does.
I think I solved this. For some reason there is a SECOND place in the registry (besides that shown by the file associations stored in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\shell\open\command): [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command] @=”\”C:\\Python25\\python.exe\” \”%1\” %*” This seems to be the controlling setting on my system. The registry setting above adds the “%*” to pass all arguments to python.exe (it was … Read more
When you execute a script without typing “python” in front, you need to know two things about how Windows invokes the program. First is to find out what kind of file Windows thinks it is: C:\>assoc .py .py=Python.File Next, you need to know how Windows is executing things with that extension. It’s associated with the … Read more
The answer was a lot simpler than I expected. Windows Explorer has its own override for the open with application, and I was trying to modify it in the last lines of code. If you just delete the Explorer override, then the file association will work. I also told explorer that I had changed a … Read more