Adding File Association with Display Name

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aecspades
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Adding File Association with Display Name

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This is somewhat related to http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewt ... 632#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.
FrancescoT
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Re: Adding File Association with Display Name

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Dear aecspades,

unfortunately you should try to define such verb via Registry ... anyway, I don't believe this should cause problems.

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