Re: Point and Click does not work on Windows

[Eluze]

James wrote
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On 21 April 2013 13:18, Eluze <

> eluzew@

> > wrote:
> 
>> James wrote
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here.
> 
> For instance in Windows there is
> 
> Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Associations
> 
> or
> 
> Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Default Programs
> 
> The first one actually has *.ly files associated with Frescobaldi (I'd
> forgotten I had it installed!) so I assume that Frescobaldi does that file
> association for you when you install it.
> 
> The second one does not have either Frescobaldi or LilyPond in the list. I
> don't know if that matters if you just use 'Set Associations'.
> 
> So if I 'Set Associations' with *.ly files to use another program again
> LilyPond is not in the list, but I can browse to the exe directly; and if
> I
> do _that_ and then run the bat file I get:
> 
> --snip--
> 
> C:\Users\jlowe\Desktop>regQuery.bat Dak.ly
> myApplicationCaller="C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe"
> myEditor=lilypond.exe
> myExt=.ly
> 
> --snip--
> 
> So does it matter (to you) that when a user installs LilyPond there are no
> (I think - maybe Phil can correct me he uses LilyPond on Windows too) file
> associations set - certainly no 'default programs'.
> 
> or was I supposed to point the file associations at something else
> (lilypad.exe or lilypond-windows.exe etc.)?

thanks for testing, James!

maybe my hope to find the needed information in thess tables was to
optimistic - does somebody know how the "correct" way is?

Eluze



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