Create file associations

Can someone tell me how to create a file association using VBS.
i.e. I want to setup files with a file extension of ".myExt" to be opened
using .../myProg.exe and I want to set the icon on these files.

Thanks for any help
Fred

mr_unreliable
Fri Aug 18 15:51:49 CDT 2006

hi Fred,

You can do this in either of two ways.

For one, you can write the registry with regwrite commands.

Or you can create a "reg" file and then just "run" it. A
"reg" file will call up regedit to make a registry entry
or entries for you.

O.K. for that, so what do you write. Usually there are two
entries. The first entry is for the extension. Say your
extention is ".au3b". Then you make up a registry entry
that looks like this (note the "REGEDIT4" makes it a reg
file):

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.au3b]
@="au3bfile"

So your ".au3b" extension points to ANOTHER registry entry,
namely "au3bfile" (the same as the extension, with "file"
appended).

Here is what the other registry entry looks like:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile]
@="AutoIt v3(beta) Source File"
"EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00
"AlwaysShowExt"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell]
@="Run"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\Run]
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\Run\command]
@="D:\\AutoIt3(beta_v123)_06May06\\AutoIt3.exe \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\EditPlus]
@="Edit &with EditPlus"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\EditPlus\command]
@="D:\\TEXTED~1\\EDITPLUS\\EDITPLUS.EXE"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\EditPlus\ddeexec]
@="[open(\"%1\")]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\Open]
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\Open\command]
@="D:\\AutoIt3(beta_v123)_06May06\\AutoIt3.exe \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\Edit_with_SciTE]
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
@="Edit with SciTE"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\Shell\Edit_with_SciTE\command]
@="d:\\SciTE_4AutoIt3_14Mar06\\SciTe.exe \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\au3bfile\DefaultIcon]
@="D:\\AutoIt3(beta_v123)_06May06\\AutoIt3.exe,0"

Yes, that is a little verbose, but hey, that's what you
need. If you look carefully, you will see "pairs" of
subkeys. The first item will be the context menu item
("Run"), and the second item of the pair will be the
command ("D:\\AutoIt3(beta_v123)_06May06\\AutoIt3.exe \"%1\"")

Upon further inspection, you will see how to specify the
icon you want to show for your filetype.

As we said, you could make up that text in your script and
then use regwrite to get it into the registry. Or, you could
use the above as regfile templates, modify it using a text
editor, and then just use your script with oShell.Run to run
those "reg" files using regedit.

cheers, jw
____________________________________________________________

You got questions? WE GOT ANSWERS!!! ..(but,
no guarantee the answers will be applicable to the questions)




Fred wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to create a file association using VBS.
> i.e. I want to setup files with a file extension of ".myExt" to be opened
> using .../myProg.exe and I want to set the icon on these files.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Fred
>
>
>

VS
Sat Aug 19 15:37:28 CDT 2006


To save creating all the registry entries directly you could do
something like:

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sScPath = WScript.ScriptFullName

objShell.Run "cmd /c ""assoc .ext=myFile""" ,0 ,true
objShell.Run "cmd /c ""ftype myfile=wscript """&sScPath&""" ""%1"" """
,0 ,true

' Yes you really do need all those Quotes (or at least I did).

and then perhaps:

ShellDllPath = "%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.DLL"
IconNum = 13

' **** Set Description for files ****
RegLocate = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myfile\"
objShell.RegWrite RegLocate, "EXT Files","REG_SZ"

' **** Set Icon for files ****
RegLocate = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myfile\DefaultIcon\"
objShell.RegWrite RegLocate, ShellDllPath&","&IconNum ,"REG_SZ"

--
VS

Liz
Mon Aug 21 09:34:40 CDT 2006

There is an article at
http://www.dx21.com/HOME/ARTICLES/P2P/ARTICLE.ASP?CID=48 that might
answer your questions.