Flexible Editor and Asscociated Program Settings

[andrewj]

Did the suggestion in this post ever get implemented?
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=4834

If so, please could someone direct me to how to do this. If not, I'd like to add my request for something similar.

I've just spent some time setting up XnView as a front-end to the PhotoShop Elements editor. It's 100 times better than the Elements "Organiser", but I found this part of the process very tricky, particularly under Vista.

I think XnView should have its own settings for which programs edit and view which filetypes, instead of relying on the operating system defaults, for three reasons:
1. It's actually a very tricky piece of registry editing, since you first have to find the HKCR\.{filetype} item, then find where this is pointing, then in that location create shell\edit\command and shell\open\command items. There's not a lot of help abuut on how to do this.
2. If you install some other software it could easily blow this away and you're back to square one.
3. You might want to have XnView use an editor which is not the operating system default for the filetype.

Please can we reconsider this? Editing the INI file would be fine if a user interface is too much work, but XnView really should have its own settings for this.

Don't get me wrong. I think XnView is a great program and makes Elements much more usable, but this would be a real improvement.

Andrew

[andrewj]

Did we get anywhere with this?
I seem to remember a post from Pierre saying he's working on it, but I can't find that now.

Thanks
Andrew

[xnview]

Did we get anywhere with this?
I seem to remember a post from Pierre saying he's working on it, but I can't find that now.

Yes, but i have so many things to do

[andrewj]

Dear Pierre,
Don't worry. As long as it hasn't fallen off the radar completey we can wait.
Keep up the excellent work!
Andrew

[andrewj]

Dear Pierre,
Glad to have you back and new versions of XnView coming through. It's still my front-end to all my image processing.
Are you any nearer to implementing something like this suggestion? It's becoming a necessity for me as I now have to juggle two different versions of Bibble!
Thanks
Andrew

[andrewj]

On a positive note, I've just discovered the hotkeys for the right-click editors in 1.97.2
This goes a long way to helping me sort out my editors
Thanks!
Andrew