Codejock Developer Community : Standard "Open With..." dialog to choose helperapp http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 14 May 2026 01:26:59 +0000 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:09:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=14613 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Standard "Open With..." dialog to choose helperapp : Sure - but the idea is to give...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=51451&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#51451 Author: mdoubson
Subject: 14613
Posted: 29 July 2009 at 10:09pm

Sure - but the idea is to give USER a choice to make association - not force him (e.g. our app generate some image of special format we don't have internal viewer but user can have some "universal" image viewer he can choose) ]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:09:57 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=51451&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#51451 <![CDATA[Standard "Open With..." dialog to choose helperapp : You can build menu yourself. The...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=51450&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#51450 Author: ijwelch
Subject: 14613
Posted: 29 July 2009 at 9:59pm

You can build menu yourself. The info is in registry. This site explains where:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/OpenWith.htm]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:59:00 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=51450&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#51450 <![CDATA[Standard "Open With..." dialog to choose helperapp : You just need to call ShellExec...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=51408&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#51408 Author: mdoubson
Subject: 14613
Posted: 28 July 2009 at 8:44pm

You just need to call ShellExec with you type of file and if it not registrated as already existed association - ShellExec will open you prompt to find target
This is a sample from my old code - ext is string of file extention.
..............
int j = strFile.ReverseFind('.');
strFile = strFile.Left(j + 1);
strFile += ext;

if (::ShellExecute(GetSafeHwnd(),  "open", strFile, NULL, strPath, SW_HIDE) == (HINSTANCE) SE_ERR_NOASSOC)
{
AfxMessageBox("No Associations with extension " + ext + "\nYou should create one!");
           ShellExecute(GetSafeHwnd(), "open", "rundll32.exe", "shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL " + strFile, strPath, SW_SHOW);
}
]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:16 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=51408&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#51408 <![CDATA[Standard "Open With..." dialog to choose helperapp : Our software manages files, and...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=50277&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#50277 Author: lorax1284
Subject: 14613
Posted: 24 June 2009 at 10:19pm

Our software manages files, and we want to allow users to select "helper apps" for various types of files.

We would like to present the standard "Open With..." dialog to users from which they can choose the app they want to use.

I understand that this dialog is usually shown by the OS itself when a user attempts to launch an unknown file from Windows Explorer... but is there an API for this dialog so it can be used to set up helper apps?

(MFC, C++, Visual Studio .Net 2003)

Thanks in advance!]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:19:24 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14613&PID=50277&title=standard-open-with-dialog-to-choose-helperapp#50277