Re: [cdt-dev] Associating file extensions in windows?

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:

> Well, from the point of usability for the end-user, as of now eclipse is
> totally useless to me. Not being able to simply just open a file or drag
> one into the window is a major disadvantage, it takes a lot more time to
> use the File/Open File menu item and browse to the appropriate folder,
> oh when you want to open multiple files from several folders it gets
> really annoying.
>
> Being able to associate file extensions with a program and dragging
> files into an application are the most basic UI features any serious
> application for windows should support, frankly I can't live without them.
>
> It's absolutely understandable that by opening external files I won't
> get any context related information, but I'm working on rather huge
> projects with several thousand source files in hundreds of folders
> (basically as sub-projects) where I basically just can't and don't want
> to create a project for. I just would like to use eclipse+cdt as a code
> editor, and I bet a lot more people would too, if these very basic
> things were supported.
>
> What I don't get is I've found bug reports about this issue from people
> asking for the exact same features dated more than 2 years ago, why does
> no one care about it? Associating a file extension with an application
> is only a few registry keys (assuming the executable accepted file names
> as parameters and handle them over to an existing instance of the
> application, if already running). Drag&Drop from the win32 point of view
> is less than 10 lines of code. Ok, I know it's Java but since there was
> a plugin for this, it's doable, too.
>  
Well, the great thing is that this is open source and we would love to 
see patches that would fix this. I think the problem is that most people 
who use the CDT aren't on Windows, although I'd like to see that change. 
So if you think you can fix it, please send a patch to the cdt-patch 
list and we'll see about checking it in.

> I'm really excited about eclipse and cdt, but without these two
> features, it's bascially impossible for me to use it as a code editor on
> a daily basis.
>
> Best Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
> Doug Schaefer wrote:
>  
>
> > That's certainly an interesting idea. I know when you install
> > VisualStudio, it registers against C/C++ files. The start up is a bit
> > slow, though, and I suppose Eclipse would be similarly slow. You also
> > would be hobbled by the lack of an Eclipse project and associated
> > settings (unless the action could determine which workspace to open up,
> > but I'm not sure if this is possible). We open external C/C++ files in
> > the CDT today but without project information you don't get content
> > assist, open declaration, etc. The fileopen plugin looks interesting and
> > worth a look to see what it does.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Doug
> >    
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Doug Schaefer, Senior Software Developer
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