On 12/23/2010 08:49 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 12/18/2010 03:48 AM, Jesús Corrius wrote: >>> Right-click the .odt and select 'Open With' (WinXPPro); the 'Programs' >>> window shows only option for LibO, not OOo. It does show options for >>> Word if MS Word is installed and has the odf converter installed. I've >>> repeated this on my WinXPro VM by: >>> >>> 1. Uninstalling all instances of OOo and LibO. >>> 2. Reinstall OOo (3.2.1 OOO320m18) and verify that the .odt's are >>> associated with OOo. >>> 3. Reinstall LibORC1 (OOO330m18). The .odt's are now associated *only* >>> with LibO *and* cannot be reassociated with OOo from right-clicking and >>> 'Open With' from Windows Explorer. >> >> I was expecting to find some problem with the merge of the >> SupportedTypes in the registry during the installation, but everything >> worked fine in my Windows XP SP2. I've followed your instructions and >> I now have two entries in the "Open With" context menu, one for >> OpenOffice.org and the other one for LibreOffice. >> >> Anyone else is able to reproduce this? >> >>> My guess is that the problem is with the common swriter.exe (et al) >>> executable name. If I get time over the weekend I'll modify the names in >>> the Windows registry to see if I can cause the situation to change. >> >> As I mentioned before, in the registry there's the full path of the >> executable, so it doesn't matter if they have the same name provided >> that the path is different. >> >> Here you have info on how this works: >> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872121(v=VS.85).aspx > > Nope. That's not how it works. Sorry for the delay in responding, but > your system does not work the same as mine (WinXPPro SP3). I went back > and repeated my initial. Here are screenshots of those: > > http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5827/screenshotwithoooonly.png > Only OOo 3.2.1 installed. > > Now I install LibO - and in this case I installed LibORC2 just to be > sure that the test is current. And this is the result: > http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4994/screenshotwithliborc2.png > http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9178/screenshotwithliborc22.png > Notice that all references to OOo are now missing. > > So now I do the open with & browse to OOo swriter.exe and use that - > guess what happens... the .doc file opens in LibO. > > As a test I rename the swriter.exe in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org > 3\program > to ooowriter.exe > and guess what happens when I use the choose program on the next go > around? Yep, the .doc now opens with OOo. And guess what now shows up in > the 'open with' dialog window... OOo: > http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4567/screenshotoootoooowrite.png > > I'm happy to swap stories/tests, but IMO the problem still exists,
Sorry, forgot to add the screenshot of where I'd changed OOo swriter.exe to ooowriter.exe - here it is: http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/93/screenshotooowriter.png _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
