On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:46:44 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 131:00 -0700, DGDevin wrote:
>
>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:1p2twkne1t6wr$.8j7tunznvz14$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>
>>> When you say "everywhere", do you mean in several places in the browser,
>>> or in one place each in various programs?
>>
>> I meant everywhere I looked, which was all in Explorer 8. I'm not running
>> much software on this new Win 7 machine yet, so I haven't run into the issue
>> you describe of other programs wanting to default to Explorer.
>
> I would give you an example, and in fact, the last time it happened to
> me was yesterday or Wednesday. Do you think I remember today which
> program it was? Sheesh.
>
> If I run into it again while this thread is reasonably current, I'll
> post an example
>
> BTW, I rarely use Internet Explorer, so I haven't had your experience
> (and I'm being too lazy to explore the Explorer at the moment).
OK, this was in relation to but outside of Eclipse, which I'm using in
an attempt to learn Android programming. In Windows Explorer, I double
clicked on an xml file that belongs to the project I'm trying to learn
from, and by default it opened the file in something called XML Editor.
I can also right-click the xml file and choose to "Open with" the same
editor (or a couple of others).
This ends up being a window in Internet Explorer 8, which shows me the
XML code in a nice layout, but without interpretations. Note that IE8 is
*not* my default browser.
I can't actually *edit* the file, however. This is weird. Anyway, it
probably doesn't count as an example of a program defaulting to IE,
since it seems the program Windows Explorer is trying to run *is* IE (or
maybe a plug-in).
Another program I can "Open with" is called XML Notepad 2007, from
Microsoft, of all things:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb190600.aspx
In that one I *can* edit it.
If you're not confused, you're not me
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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)