File associacion

[Cableguy]

Hi guys...
I was aiming for a litle surprise, but I have a doubt that "forces" me to pop the package up...
I'm about 75% done of an INI file creator for the device...
I thought to myself:
" it's pretty easy writing an INI file, so lets try it in the device...hum...with what app should I do it?"
Then I realized that there is no easy way, either to create an INI file,or rename a TXT file into INI...
So I decided to get myself going in creating a very simple but yet effective INI creator...
NOW my problem is not directly related to the coding, but more on how things work...
I was planning to include some file association for my app, so that any INI file tapped would open the App automatically and loaded...
Also planning to do a custom icon for the INI files, so that they would be more easely tracked in a fileexplorer in the device...

How can I achieve theese two things?

I know i have to teak the regestry, and even know were and what to create, the only doubt about that is how to enable the tap - open event...
Do I need to define some args to my app?

 

[Erel]

You can use code similar to that one to add file association in the registry: http://www.b4x.com/forum/code-sampl...ation-basic4ppc-source-code-files-device.html

Your program will receive the tapped file name as the first argument - args(0).
You can check in App_Start:

If args.Count > 0 then
 ... 'Load tapped file
End If

 

[Cableguy]

Thanks Erel, so I Do have to work with args...
great....Hope to have it ful working by week end...