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Use RCP in the Windows default OPen [message #1281342]

Mon, 31 March 2014 18:58

Yigal Spinner

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Registered: July 2009

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I created an RCP application that handles files with extension "*.FSD" (EMF Model).
The application can open multiple editors for different files.

I would like to associate the extension FSD in windows with my RCP application. So when the user double click on a file it opens in teh RCP application.

However, Each time I open the file, it opens a NEW RCP instance of my application. How can I reuse the existing instance and not open a new one (just like Excel that there is one running code with multiple tabs).

Is there a way in Eclipse to support routing the command line back to the runing instance or something similar.

Thanks
Yigal

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