On 2018-09-24 01:17, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
Known little thing: Something must be done to somehow be able to switch .pd file association to 32 or 64. The current behavior is that files (opened from the Explorer) are opened with the last Pd installation and if this installation is removed the other can't open files from the Explorer.
how does this work with other applications?
e.g. if .doc is associated with MicrosoftOffice and i install
LibreOffice, claiming the .doc extension, what happens if i then
uninstall LibreOffice?
This might be solved by running a batch script from pd/bin that rewrites to the 'registry'. I'll do some tests.
i think there should just be a button in the preferences that says something along the lines: "Open pd-patches with *this* version of Pd".
it would probably be better to handle this directly from Pd-GUI (that is: write the code in tcl, rather than bat).
also, i wonder how much of a problem this will actually be in the real world (that is: how many people will try to install the 32bit version and the 64bit version side by side, then decide that they want to ditch the one they installed last AND will be totally lost in re-installing the former (or doing file-assocications by hand).
i'm not saying this is not an issue (just trying to assess the priorities)
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