"Associate with" plug-in enhancement

pdavit · Post by *pdavit » 2004-09-22, 01:43 UTC

It would be very flexible if we could have a section in the "associate with" window where we could associate a specific filetype/extension to a TC plug-in for internal handling.

This issue came up as I was trying to play some audio files of a well-known RPG computer game where the files were actually wav (or most possibly mp3s due to the smaller size) files but with weird (unknown) file extensions. I didn't want to associate the new file extension to an external player for practical reasons but wanted TC to handle the playback internally via my multimedia TC plug-in.

Of course, as expected, F3 or Ctrl+Q displayed the files' ASCII contents.

Letting aside, for a moment, the feature wish, has anyone come up with some kind of workaround on similar cases?

Thanks!

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2004-09-22, 07:16 UTC

What I see in the wincmd.ini is for example:
[ListerPlugins]
1=C:\Program Files\Total Commander\mp3tag.wlx
1_detect="MULTIMEDIA & (ext="MP3" | ext="OGG" | ext="MP3PRO")"

I think if you add your awkward extension to the list, it should be ok.

pdavit · Post by *pdavit » 2004-09-22, 13:52 UTC

That would most probably work! Thanks!

On the other hand, it would surely be a welcoming feature to have a GUI based way (not referring to ini editors here) of defining the associations. More straightforward if you like and it will rather look like a feature other than a ini hacking in a way!

Sheepdog · Post by *Sheepdog » 2004-09-22, 15:58 UTC

pdavit wrote:On the other hand, it would surely be a welcoming feature to have a GUI based way (not referring to ini editors here) of defining the associations. More straightforward if you like and it will rather look like a feature other than a ini hacking in a way!

Did you give the TCPlugman a try? There you could change this detect string without editing the wincmd.ini.

If the link doesn't work, there is a mirror on Clo's site. (I had trouble downloading this morning)

sheepdog

pdavit · Post by *pdavit » 2004-09-23, 19:42 UTC

I have no problem editing an ini file. But then again that might just be only me!

...and, no, I haven't tried any plug-in manager so far for two main reasons:
1. I don't have that many plug-ins installed. Should be around 6 from all three categories.
2. I don't want to get used to the idea of using one just because Christian reported a new system on the upcoming release. (yes, this reason is weird but hey that's who I am)

It will be indeed a very welcoming feature, as I said before, to see this build-in in TC.

(That, plus TreeCopy's functionality!

)