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Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« on: February 05, 2012, 09:32:12 am »
Latest Ndless 3.1 beta (r530) adds support for file associations based on file extensions.



Thanks to a little text config file (ndless_cfg.tns), you can tell Ndless to automatically look for a "mviewer.tns" file and launch it each time you try to open a ".png.tns" or ".bmp.tns" file.

All similar Ndless programs will have to be updated in order to support this new feature.



We hope to see updates for mViewer, nDoom, gbc4nspire and nespire soon ;)



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« Last Edit: February 05, 2012, 09:33:05 am by critor »
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2012, 10:11:18 am »
Awesome. So does trying to open a ".png.tns" file open it with mViewer, or does it just open mViewer and you still have to navigate to the file you want to open?

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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2012, 01:40:18 pm »
Great update!  I'll try to update nPlayer soon! :)


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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2012, 01:50:06 pm »
Wow, this is just getting better and better.

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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2012, 01:58:43 pm »
Something with argc/argv?

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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2012, 02:01:05 pm »
The file name is passed in argv[1]. I just haven't had the time to update the documentation (anyway this update is useless as long nespire/gbc4nspire/mViewer/nPlayer aren't updated too).
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2012, 02:10:41 pm »
Here is nPlayer CX, updated to support this feature!  I also updated the version in the Omni archives! :D  (If someone could, please update the version on TI-Planet also ;)).
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2012, 02:24:45 pm »
apcalc DFon't forget TI-Planet too :P

Also I can't wait for being able to launch WAD files directly from the Nspire file list :D
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2012, 02:34:51 pm »
apcalc DFon't forget TI-Planet too :P

Oh, yeah, I meant TI-Planet. D:

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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2012, 02:47:54 pm »
Hmm, I guess it would even be possible for a program to auto-install its own file associations by accessing the config file, right? It would be cool if Ndless included a built-in function for that, to enforce the correct format and not allow duplicates and such.
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2012, 02:50:46 pm »
I thought of this, but I'm not sure if it will be really intuitive for users to ask them to run at least one time the main program for the file extensions to work.
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2012, 02:51:43 pm »
I thought of this, but I'm not sure if it will be really intuitive for users to ask them to run at least one time the main program for the file extensions to work.
It's more intuitive than setting it up manually (though of course, that would also be possible).

Edit: Here's another idea which would make it simple to package file associations with program releases (no text editing required). For example, for .nes.tns, there could be a file called ndless_cfg_nes.tns which contains the name of the program to open. (Since that file doesn't actually have a .nes.tns extension, it won't be treated as a NES file itself, naturally)
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2012, 03:08:10 pm »
Very nice :)

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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2012, 03:11:02 pm »
Hmm, I also wonder how I'll handle file associations for gbc4nspire, which has 3 different versions with different program names (gbc4click, gbc4touch, gbc4cx)
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Re: Ndless 3.1 adds support for file associations
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2012, 03:13:48 pm »
Excale suggests that the config file value contains {CX_program,[touchpad_program,[clickpad_program]]}.
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