Question about file suffixes

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 1:36 AM, Brad Bennett at bbennett at quicomm.com wrote:

> Question:  I actually have two products where I want to use Valentina.  One
> is IPNetHunter (the IP Lookup DB app).  Another is VisiLaunch.  With
> VisiLaunch a user could create several different databases, and I would
> like for them to be able to double click any one of these Valentina DB
> documents to launch VisiLaunch (or put one in their startup items).  Note,
> however, this same user could also have IPNetHunter on this machine....and
> we don't want IPNetHunter to be launched.
> 
> The reason I am asking this is that I note that in the Windows version,
> Valentina always appends ".vdb" on the name as the file suffix.  Isn't this
> going to create a problem as to which application actually "owns" this
> database document?  That is, if the OS first associates ".vdb" files with
> IPNetHunter, isn't double cliking on a VisiLaunch DB file (also ".vdb"
> suffix) going to launch IPNetHunter instead of VisiLaunch?
> 
> I tried to find an answer to this question on your site (search), but was
> unsuccessful.  Can you shed any light as how to handle?

Hi Brad,

V4RB have function SetExtentions()
Using it you can tune your app to use own extensions for Valentina files.

And similar one for MacOS file type.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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