Author: Pete Galati
Date: 20:54:01 08/07/00
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On August 07, 2000 at 23:26:33, Peter Skinner wrote: >On August 07, 2000 at 23:11:43, pavel wrote: > >>okay I dont know if its off-topic or on-topic...........kinda confused. >>but I will post it anyways. ;) >> last night i downloaded TSCP souce code from Tom's page. >>i wanted to see how simple it is.....and learn some programing ofcourse ;) >>what i did was ,when I "double clicked" the main.c file it prompt for what kinda >>viewer to open this file. I used "notepad" but I forgot to uncheck "use it all >>the time". as a matter of fact from now on all my source file with .c extension >>has a "notepad icon and its default now. >> >>my questions are >> >>will there be any problem with that? >>can I undo it? coz i dont wanna make it default. >> >>thanku >>pave > >I had the same problem under Windows, but when I installed a C++ program, it >simply took over the file extention permissions... It's nice that it wrestled the associations away for you. With TSCP, probably all the .c and .h files should be small enough that Notepad can handle it. But as I recall, just about everything from Crafty will be too big for the Notepad. I use a free programming editor called PFE for almost everything that's ascii text these days. I have no idea where you can find a download of the 32bit verion of PFE by now because the author's webpage disapeared (I think he graduated). But there are other programming file editors available for free. VIDE comes to mind, try this link, see if it still works http://www.objectcentral.com/vide.htm , some people were speaking highly of VIDE a while back, so it might be better than PFE. But Notepad really isn't a very good editor for C progrmming. For working with C, you could call Notepad a piece of garbage. For doing other things it's ideal, but not for that. To change the file association to something else other than Notepad, in the Windows Explorer (not talking about the browser), find a .c file, highlight it, then Shift-Right Click on the file, and you should see a dialog box that will let you browse for the editor that you want associated with .c (and there's a box to check for if you want it to always open the .c file) I hope that made sense, I haven't done it for a long time, but it's mostly that Shift-Right Click thing you gotta remember. Pete
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