Associating file extensions

**fullmetalcoder** · 9th May 2006, 15:27

I thought it could have...
I find a static functions in QSettings that was called : registerFormat()
It sounded nice but it finally appeared to be a way to create another setting storage format (the built-in ones being INI, system registery under win, and some xml stuff under mac).

I am very disappointed that there are no nice way to do it under Qt and I agree with you, this is not the right place : move it to c++ programming...

**wysota** · 9th May 2006, 15:29

I meant more that it is not the right site to ask that question. Nupul already asked something simmilar here (you can find his posts about it) and did not come to any obvious solutions. Each window manager (or maybe desktop manager, I don't know) has its own system for keeping those associations.

**fullmetalcoder** · 9th May 2006, 15:34

Two obvious facts :
- Window$ provides some way to do that but the only apps I found providing a run-time file association dialog (that would need such a facility) weren't Open Source...
- KDE and Gnome are Open Source and the file association code could be borrowed if portable but I don't feel like browsing megs of source code and linking to KDE or Gnome libs is unacceptable for a cross-platform and lightweight project...