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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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"Open With" function

falcon409

falcon409

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I have never had this problem before, but it sure is giving me fits now. I lost my external HDD over the weekend and one of the programs on that drive was DXTbmp. I reinstalled the program on the internal drive and now, no matter what, I can't get any image file to associate with it. I want to use it to open bmp's for obvious reasons and when I use the "open with" option and browse to the DXTbmp.exe file and click on it. . .it simply does nothing. It won't accept it and add it to the files listed in the "Open With" window.

Anyone ever run into this before?
 
If I recall there were one or two dll files you needed to make that program work.
Were they on the bad HD, if so you may have to go to Martin's site and redownload and reinstall them.
 
Hmmm, well, the program itself works. I can open DXTbmp and load any bitmap into it I want to, but if I right click on a bitmap and try to "associate" a bitmap with that program, it won't accept it.
 
Well the dlls probably not it then.
If the progam is in a different location name the open with list may not be finding it.
You will have to direct it to the new location.


I think.
 
Here's the sequence leading up to the "no show" in the "Open With" menu. . . .as you can see, once I get to the actual exe file and click, it doesn't accept it. There are a lot of other programs in the selection window to open with, and DXTbmp (for doing repaints) has always been one4 of them, but not any more.
 
So you are manually directing it to DXTs new location hmmmm, perhaps a run as administrator issue depending on what OS you are running.
But it works when you go to it out side the list so most likely not.
I will think on it a while and see if I can come up with something.
Right now I am blank on why it would work one way but not through the open with list.
Strange.
 
Ed,
Could the problem be that DXTBmp isn't actually an editor ? I ask because one of the menu options within it is to "send to editor". Perhaps if you try to associate .bmp with PSP, that will solve your problem ... ??? The big question is whether DXTBmp will open a .bmp file and send to / retrieve from your "real" file editor.

Hope this works,
regards,
Ro
 
Yea, just something I never had a problem with before. Thanks for "pondering" on it, lol. Time to hit the sack here in "Not as Hot as it has been" Texas, lol.:salute:
 
rohan said:
Ed,
Could the problem be that DXTBmp isn't actually an editor ? I ask because one of the menu options within it is to "send to editor". Perhaps if you try to associate .bmp with PSP, that will solve your problem ... ??? The big question is whether DXTBmp will open a .bmp file and send to / retrieve from your "real" file editor.

Hope this works,
regards,
Ro
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Hey Ro, caught me just as I was about to sign off. Using DXTbmp to open texture bitmaps has always worked before, it's just been since the external drive went south on me that it has decided not to work anymore. I always had DXTbmp associated with bmp's so I could randomly click on a texture and it would automatically load it into DXTbmp. Once I'm in DXTbmp, I have Paint Shop Pro setup as the texture editor and that part does work. I can move textures back and forth from DXTbmp to PSP and back with no problem.:salute:
 
Ed,
I've just installed DXTBmp on my new PC, which happens to be running WinXP (but I don't think that that matters too much). Had to set the association in two places to get it to "stick", as follows -

Select Control Panel, Folder Options and File Types.
Scroll down the list of extensions until you come to .BMP and select it.
Click on the Advanced button at the bottom of the window.
Check that the Edit line is selected then click on the Edit button.
Click on the Browse button and find wherever you've installed DXTBmp, then click OK.
When you're back at the Folder Options window, click on Apply.
Now click on the Change button.
The list of "available" programs should now include "DXT1 Bitmap Manipulator".
Select that and the "always use" option then click OK.
Click Apply and OK and, voila, that should be that.

Note that on my PC, the default option on the "Open With" window is still the Picture and Fax viewer despite having changed the entry, but that doesn't stop a BMP file from being opened in DXTBmp which is what we want ...

I don't have access to Win7 at the moment to confirm that the above is identical to what I've just done, but it should be very close from what I remember,
hope this one does help,
regards,
Ro
 
Thanks Ro. . .unfortunately Win7 doesn't have the file extensions as part of the option as is shown in XP. I don't have any idea why this has just suddenly decided not to work. . .I've never had a file association that didn't work until now.

May very well have something to do with the fact that I'm still running the Beta version of Win7 Ultimate and have to periodically backdate the computer to allow my computer to continue running.:salute:
 
Have you tried checking or changing your options under: windows 7 start/default programs/associate a file type or protocol with a program/bmp?
Try setting DXT as default and see if it works.
 
UAC might be the solution you're looking for but only if you have to ask 'what is UAC... ?' :)

New W7 user here and initially i had a lot of 'not working' problems too. Some DVD's wouldn't even work....

Coincidently i just reinstalled DXTBmp on my new machine, did what you did to open it upon clicking a dds file successfully right away.

So if you know about UAC please ignore this.

If you don't : search for UAC ( User Account Control ) and pull the slider all the way down.
Good chance 'Open With' file association will work again.

cheers,
jan
 
Thanks guys. . .man I have tried everything and it just seems to ignore it. Even when I click on DXTbmp.exe after browsing to it, it just acts as though I clicked "cancel" instead. Pretty odd. I surrender though, lol. . .at this point I've spent more time trying to force it to work than is really necessary, lol.:salute:
 
falcon, have you tried this:

Start > Default programs > Associate a file type or protocal with a program

That brings up the program in the pic below. Similar to XP and earlier versions of Windows.

EDIT: I see this is what gradyhappyg suggested already. Definately an odd problem.
 
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