vinnyt
30th August 2001 04:09 UTC

Install Tricks!
Hello all,
I am a newbie windows developer and I have created this program and I am using the NSIS installer (tight by the way thanks). Any way I want to associate a mime type with my application so that when you download a file from my website with the new mime-type it will automatically launch my program. Is this something I do in the installer and if so does any one have a sample or suggestion where to look? If it is not in the installer and in my C++ code then I am open for suggestions on that too.
Thank you in advance for answers.

Vincent ****.

DuaneJeffers
30th August 2001 05:19 UTC

Earthlink, my isp, has something like this. What they did was create their own protocal. It was in a dll. I don't know what they did, but it is hard to explain. But NSIS doesn't support this. I hope to soon do something like AddLineToText text_document "line_of_text" , but now, it is only possible to create a plug-in for IE or Netscape/Mozilla.

Sorry,
-DJ

pjw62
30th August 2001 09:18 UTC

This information is held in the windows registry. E.g. (if you have the acrobat pdf plugin for ie), search the registry for application/pdf and see how it is implemented.
I do think it would be easier to write your own 'helper' nsis dll, which you call with rundll32.exe. Also, I am not sure how Netscape handles new MIME types.

Or, you could just associate a filetype; then, as happens on winamp skins, when the user is prompted to download, they click "Open File from current location" or whatever and that is it.