Re: Register AbiWord in the "New file" submenu of Windows Explorer

Mick wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems that the installer program does not register AbiWord in the
> "New file" submenu of the Windows Explorer right-button-click-menu.
> .
> That's why I had to do the following by hand.
> In the registry I added in
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
> .awt
>
> the key "ShellNew"
> with sub-key "FileName" with value
> "C:\programs\AbiSuite2\templates\a4.awt".
>
> (According to the instructions in:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/context.asp
>
> B.t.w. this Mini-HowTo was not that easy to find).
>
> It would be helpful (especially for technically less interested users)
> to add these registry entries automatically - if the corresponding
> additional configuration option is selected during the installation dialog.

This is Bug 7367 (http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7367)
and is a little harder to implement than that because a good solution
should take into account the user's locale before installing the
template (rather than just defaulting to A4). Thanks for posting
instructions, though; I'll point users to this post if they have an
interest in doing this before the feature is implemented.
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Received on Thu Mar 2 01:52:16 2006