my goal is to launch a .vnc file from html, i have now figured out how to open it directly via cmd.
C:\Program Files\TightVNC>start tvnviewer.exe -optionsfile=C:\Users\user\Desktop\Links\test.vnc
so this works, but now i need to figure out how to make a regedit so that i can make URL links for all the files saved on our intranet, ideally i would have just the file name as a variable in the URL and the rest be done by the regedit value, so that whenever a link in our html file is pressed, cmd is launched and executes the command and replacing the variable by the name of the file.
I imagine it like this customurl://testfile
and it should automatically launch my vnc application stated above, with the -optionsfile being at the same address as i specified, only the name would now be testfile.vnc.
edit: forgot to mention that i already do have a regedit entry for the custom url protocol and keys such as customurl>shell>open>command
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I have a batch program that can be used for opening a specific file format I created. The file format is a actually a zip file with the .zip changed to .gcif.
When you run my btch file there is an input field for entering the location of the .gcif file you want to open. The .gcif is then renamed to .zip. The 7z.exe (which is in the same directory as the batch file) then unzips the file and it is processed by my batch file.
But I would like it to also work when the user finds any .gcif file, right clicks it, and selects Open With my batch file. Is there any way for batch file to detect that ithas been tasked to open that specific file?
I figured it out. When a file is opened with a batch file, the file location is passed on to the batch file as a parameter. The parameter can then be accessed using %1.
For example, if I opened the file C:/document.txt in a batch file containing this code:
#ECHO OFF
ECHO %1
The output would display C:/document.txt.
You can register a windows file handler in your system.
You might need admin rights and might need to modify the registry.
Essentially you "connect" your filextension .gcif with your batch file so windows knows that any file of this extension is connected to your batchfile
You can read something about it on the msdn site here: How to Register a File Type for a New Application
If you plan to associate one or more file types with a new
application, you must define a ProgID for each file type that you want
to associate with the application.
To create a ProgID for each unique file type that your application
handles, use these steps.
Instructions
Step 1: Note that some file types have multiple
extensions that point to the same ProgID; for example:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\App.jpeg (your ProgID)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg = App.jpeg (the file type mappings)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpeg = App.jpeg
Step 2:
Remove the ProgID values when you install and uninstall your
program.
Step 3:
Leave the file type mappings unchanged at uninstall time.
Doing so works because file type mappings are stored per user in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.ext, and the system identifies the case where the
ProgID value is missing and ignores it. Leaving file type mappings
unchanged avoids the need to have conditional code that only removes
the file type mapping if the value still points to your ProgID. It is
important to avoid doing so in cases where it might have been changed
by another application and you thus cannot easily remove the value.
Step 4:
Specify a unique value for the file type description of each
file type ProgID by doing one of the following:
Leave the default value of the ProgID empty, in which case the system
uses the .ext file. Provide a localized value via FriendlyTypeName
and, for compatibility with old applications that read the registry
directly, be sure to provide the default value of the ProgID as the
file type description (that is, use the same value that is referred to
by the FriendlyTypeName in the English resource). Remarks If you plan
to associate the file with an existing application, locate an
application ProgID in the registry.
To accomplish something similar you can open your file once with Explorer and chose "Open with..." - locate your batch file and choose "always open with this application" checkbox.
The first option here is more for when you want to provide 1-click-open experience to customers for your application when they install it on their system.
Creating a bat file with:
start http://www.google.com/search?q=test
Does just what I would want it to do, it opens my default web browser (Chrome in my case) and browses to the URL http://www.google.com/search?q=test.
However, a bat file with:
start file:///C:/Users/d92495j/Desktop/OracleCDs/WebLogic/template.html?wbt=1
Only opens my default browser and browses to file:///C:/Users/d92495j/Desktop/OracleCDs/WebLogic/template.html
Note the lack of ?wbt=1. In order to fix this I've tried:
URL encoding the question mark
Running the start command parameters "window name" "file path in quotes"
Putting the file path in
variable and passing the variable to start
But none of those work. How can I get this to work?
I tested this and got the same result. I'm not really sure, but I guess this belongs to the question mark. The local file system of Windows can never have file names with ?, because this is a "wildcard" like *. I think it is possible that the file name is truncated there.
The following codes also doesn't work or produces only error messages:
start "file:///C:/Users/d92495j/Desktop/OracleCDs/WebLogic/template.html?wbt=1"
start file:///"C:/Users/d92495j/Desktop/OracleCDs/WebLogic/template.html?wbt=1"
The best solution I've come up with so far is:
powershell -noprofile -command "[void][System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start('chrome', 'file:///C:/Users/d92495j/Desktop/OracleCDs/WebLogic/template.html?wbt=1')"
This solution has the batch file launch PowerShell and then use the .NET System.Diagnostics.Process.Start method to launch Chrome with the correct parameter. The only downside is that it makes a browser choice for me and I'd prefer it to use my default browser, but I can live with that. I'll accept another answer (that is not much more complex) that uses the default browser.
Default programs for launching a specific type of file can be configured in windows. For example, double clicking a .doc file will open that file in Word, but you can reconfigured the default program associated with the .doc extension to launch the file in any program you want.
My question is, can you set the 'default program' to be a web app, or a URL? I have a web app that exports files that can then be re-imported into the web app. I want to be able to double click on those files and have a browser window open that automatically imports that file into the web app.
Yes you can.
There is a registry entry that maps an extension to a file type. There are registry entries for the file type indicating "verbs" that can be performed for that file type. One of those entries for the verb will indicate a command line, and the command line is completely arbitrary. As long as you can specify a URL in the command line to the browser, you can make the browser open anything you want.
Here's a Microsoft reference to get you started: Verbs and File Associations
In this question, I find that using system('start http://www.google.com') is OK. If the file is in local disk, though, using system('start file:///c:/temp/a.html') doesn't work. How do I have Ruby get the default browser to open a local file?
What do you get when you double click a .html file in Windows Explorer? If it isn't the browser then that is your problem. The 'start' keyword pushes the path through the ShellExecute function, for http:// URLs is knows to open that in a browser, if it is a file it depends on the extension of the file, if your system has .html pointing to notepad for example (because in the past you have set it to notepad) it is always going to open it in that program unless you go and specifically change it.
From a generic work around point of view there is not much you can do, if you can access the Windows registry under Ruby then you can query the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command default value which contains a command line for the current browser bound to the HTTP protocol, you could use that to construct a full path (replace the %1 with the URL string).
There's an executable file generated from my program in MFC and I want to use it as the default program to open the .jpg files. That is to say, each time I double click a .jpg file, my program will run.
I tried to add some registry entries linking .jpg files with my program, such as HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\shell\open\command (set its value to "myProgram.exe" "%1"), and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myProgram.
The method works just fine except when some other applications register themselves to open the .jpg files. For example, I have installed acdSee on my computer, so each time I doule click a .jpg file, it always start acdSee instead of my own program. But when I register a completely new type of file with my program, it can be open in the program. I don't know how to set my program as the default opening program of an already registered file programmatically. Can anyone help me solve this problem? Thank you very much!
The more typical/standard way for doing this is to set the default value of the ".jpg" key to a name that identifies the file type more clearly, and then setup the various associated actions there. So for jpgs, you might do this:
HKCR\.jpg
#default = MyApp.JpegImage
HKCR\MyApp.JpegImage\shell\open\command
#default = "myApp.exe "%1""
If some other program decides to register the type, they will replace the default value for HKCR.jpg with some other value, like OtherProgram.Jpg. At that point, you could re-register it to your app by setting the value back to MyApp.JpegImage.
Disclaimer: When making this sort of change, please also try to respect the user's preferences. For instance, when installing your application, give the user the option to set this file association or not set it. You can also provide a command from inside your installed application to reset the associations, if the user should wish to do so.
If you instead wanted to add some additional commands to an existing registered type, you would read the default value of the .jpg key to find the name of the file type. Then you could open that key and add an action to the existing set of actions. For instance, you could add the following:
HKCR\ExistingApp.JpegImage\shell\myopen\
#default = "Open with MyApp"
HKCR\ExistingApp.JpegImage\shell\myopen\command\
#default = "myApp.exe "%1""
Note that by writing a key to HKCR, you're actually writing to HKLM\Software\Classes. This will require administrative privileges. However, you can make per-user changes within a user context by writing your keys to HKCU\Classes\Root instead.
Also, user preferences in HKCU will override the system defaults in HKLM, which sounds like what your problem might be.
This is when a program has not registered an extension as a "Default" (Is the program listed in Set Programs and Defaults in the Control Panel?)
Time to start reading documentation!