Registering File Extension?!?

[Fredrik Lundh]

<andrea_gavana at tin.it> wrote:

>  probably this question has been asked before, but I am unable to find
> an answer... I have a big application (written in Python + a GUI in wxPython)
> which allows the user to save its work in a file with an extension .glb.
> Does anyone know if is there a way (on Windows, but also on other platforms
< if possible, thought I know almost nothing about Unix/Linux/Mac things)
> to automatically register the extension .glb so that when the user double-clicks
> the project file my application is launched with the project file name as
> a first argument?

briefly, register an "extension => progid" mapping under

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/extension

and a "program identity => command" mapping under

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/progid/shell/open/command

under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

(use regedit to see how it's done for other applications)

for more info, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/extending.asp

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