change productview express settings

[hellomoto]

I often run programs by double clicking on the file i want to work on. If config properly, the associated program will run automatically. As for ProE files, they are associated with product view express. I have to right click and select open with ProE or I have to run ProE first and open the file through the main window.

In Windows folder options there are a "ton" of proe filetypes. I can change each one to open with ProE, but there are so many of em.

Is there a simple way to change the association of proE file types such that I can run ProE by double-clicking the file? Or do I have to manually change "all" the filetypes in folder options?

thx

moto

WinXP, wildfire 2.0 M070


Edited by: hellomoto

 

[robertib]

In Windows explorer, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types


Select a ProE versioned file & click the Advanced button.


You will see 2 actions, Open in Pro/Engineer & View with ProductView Express


Select Open in Pro/Engineer& click the Default button - this will set Pro/Engineer to be the default program to open the file.


One thing to watch out for is the fact that it will open using the current directory as the working directory - ie. no config.pro, config.win, etc.
I created a batch file to set my working directory, & open the file in Pro/Engineer


c:
cd \Wildfire
"C:\Program Files\proeWildfire 2.0\bin\proe.exe" %*


where c:\wildfire is the directory where I store my config files.


Then Edit the Open with Pro/Engineer & change the file used to open it to the batch file.