Adding File Association with Display Name
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:41 pm
This is somewhat related to http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9632#p35554, I'm able to add the "basic" verbs (Open/Print) just fine, but I also need to add an 'Analyze' verb with a Display Name of 'Open in Excel' (Excel defines the verb that way). Basically when the verb key has a (Default) value, then that text is shown instead of the Verb itself when the context menu is built (when right-clicking on the file type in Windows explorer). That's actually explained in the link that was provided as a solution to the previous problem.
There doesn't seem to be any way to set the Display Name through the InstallAware interface. I guess that I could just set the Display Name through the Registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RTQuery\Shell\Analyze) instead of through the "File Associations" node, but is that going to cause problems during install/uninstall time (I've set the types to "Advertised", if that matters) or is there a cleaner solution to the problem? Thanks for any help/advice that you can give.
There doesn't seem to be any way to set the Display Name through the InstallAware interface. I guess that I could just set the Display Name through the Registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RTQuery\Shell\Analyze) instead of through the "File Associations" node, but is that going to cause problems during install/uninstall time (I've set the types to "Advertised", if that matters) or is there a cleaner solution to the problem? Thanks for any help/advice that you can give.