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nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> I'm going to catch hell for now knowing this, but...
> 
> How can a user "inform" the FileViewer that files with certain
> extensions should have a corresponding app selected as the default
> launch app?  It's easy enough to select an app already displayed in the
> Tools panel of the inspector, but how does one add a new choice?  Dragging
> an icon into that area doesn't seem to work (it should!)... 

Hmm, I'm not sure that it should.  Interesting idea, I guess.  I'm not sure  
that it shouldn't, either...   :-)

The application itself advertises what kinds of files it knows how to  
handle.  So the person writing the application has to put that part in.   
Then, the user has to put the application in one of the standard paths (ie,  
in /LocalApps, or ~/Apps, etc).  You could add more paths to the list of  
ones which are checked by changing the appropriate "defaults" value (which  
is "Workspace ApplicationPaths").

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