| File associations [message #272550] |
Thu, 23 September 2004 07:10  |
Eclipse User |
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My application creates new files with a .msg extensions. These files
should be opened with the text editor. Instead, when a new .msg file is
created, Eclipse tries to open Outlook Express!
I managed to change this from within the runtime environment by adding
*.msg as a file association in the preferences, and associating it with
the Text Editor.
Now, I want to do this programmatically, as we obviously don't want to
have to ask the end users to have to do this themselves when they install
our product. I tried adding this to my plugin.xml:
<extension point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.contentTypes">
<file-association
content-type="org.eclipse.core.runtime.text"
file-extensions="msg">
</file-association>
</extension>
but it doesn't seem to work. *.msg doesn't show up in the file extensions
page of the preferences in the runtime workbench. I think this may be an
Eclipse bug. Is there something else I should be doing? Help!
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| Re: File associations [message #272558 is a reply to message #272550] |
Thu, 23 September 2004 09:45  |
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Originally posted by: douglas.pollock.magma.ca
Matthew Dickie wrote:
> <extension point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.contentTypes">
> <file-association
> content-type="org.eclipse.core.runtime.text"
> file-extensions="msg">
> </file-association>
> </extension>
This extension point was introduced late in 3.0, and is still not hooked up
to the file associations for editors. To do what you want to do, you could
try something like this:
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.editors">
<editor
name="My Message Text Editor"
extensions="msg"
icon="path/to/my/icon.gif"
class="org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextEditor"
contributorClass="org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextEditorActionContributor "
id="org.eclipse.ui.MessageTextEditor">
</editor>
</extension>
cheers,
d.
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