Squirrel.windows: File type association

[Andrew-Hanlon]

After searching through the repository, I was not able to find any previous discussions around associating a file extension with your squirrel-installed application. Before writing code, are there any existing biases/reasoning against implementing this in Squirrel?

Since the command line for the shell/open registry entry should likely follow the same semantics as the shortcut target, I think it would be ideal to have two similar methods in Squirrel like Create/RemoveFileAssociation.

Obviously there are some complexities and limitations (if the file type is already associated or has defaults) but otherwise it's a fairly straightforward local-user registry addition.

Happy to make a first pass pull-request if this feature is desirable.

[samirem]

Any news on this?

[JBamford1]

This would be a very useful implementation. It makes no sense that you can't make file associations to an installer.

[anaisbetts]

You don't need to add any additional code in Squirrel to do this, check out https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/blob/master/docs/using/custom-squirrel-events.md. Register the file association on install/update and remove it on uninstall.

[JBamford1]

@paulcbetts Are there any examples on how to do this? I feel like the docs aren't clear enough on how to perform custom events.