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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: XDelusion on October 16, 2011, 07:13:41 PM

Title: Filetypes
Post by: XDelusion on October 16, 2011, 07:13:41 PM

Which Amiga manual teaches you how to set these up?

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: XDelusion on October 17, 2011, 10:17:59 PM

To clarify , I understand how to set these things up within individual icons, what I'd like to know is if there is a way (without using DOpus as a WB replacement) to set up Work Bench so that every time I click on a file with a certain extension and that would in turn always launch the related app. I.E. a JPG file would launch an image viewer of my choice.

Mind you, I do not want to have to edit every single icon just to make this happen.

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: paul1981 on October 17, 2011, 10:55:41 PM

It's not something that I've ever delved into, but IDer sprang to mind from its use on CUAMIGA cover cd's.

http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/wb/IDer (http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/wb/IDer)
http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/wb/IDerPrefs (http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/wb/IDerPrefs)

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: XDelusion on October 17, 2011, 10:57:52 PM

Yes, I looked it up on Aminet, and it sounds like it might just be what I was looking for, thank you!!!

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: Karlos on October 17, 2011, 11:00:27 PM

Which version of AmigaOS are you using here? DefIcons functionality came with the OS as of 3.5 and there's a preferences tool for defining file types, their icons and which default tools to use for opening files of a given type.

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: XDelusion on October 17, 2011, 11:08:35 PM

I was on 3.5, but my system began to flake out so I'm now back to 3.1.

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: Karlos on October 17, 2011, 11:13:02 PM

Quote from: XDelusion;663879

I was on 3.5, but my system began to flake out so I'm now back to 3.1.

Really? Strange, for me 3.5 was very stable. So much so that I didn't upgrade to 3.9 for quite some time.

Oh well, I'm pretty sure DefIcons is available for vanilla 3.0/3.1 too.

Title: Re: Filetypes
Post by: XDelusion on October 17, 2011, 11:21:30 PM

Well let me put it this way. I was running OS 3.5 on a 600 using a 25Mhz 030...

I may well have another go at it with my 1200, but for the 600's sake, I think I better stick with conserving those resources the best I can...

...though I'm always up for tips and suggestions as to how to make 3.5 fly on lower end systems.

I won't even get into 3.9...

That remains on my Amithlon box(es) and there I believe it shall stay (even though it does play with my 1200's 060 just fine.)