Just FYI: If you're on Windows you can just put image and VM in the same
directory. Once you start the VM, it will automatically launch the image if
there's *exactly* one. If not it will give you a file open dialog asking for
the image file to use.

  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Crowther [mailto:peter at crowther.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 1:49 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Cc: recipient list not shown
> Subject: RE: Writing an application in squeak?
> 
> 
> > Jerome Chan <eviltofu at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > How does one go about writing an application for squeak say under
> > > windows/macos/unix that is double clickable like a conventional
> > > application?
> 
> > From: Bruce ONeel [mailto:beoneel at mindspring.com]
> >   I don't know enough about windows to say anything beyond it
> > should be possible, but I don't know how.
> 
> The easiest way is simply to create an association between 
> the .image suffix
> and the Squeak VM.  Precisely how this is done in the GUI 
> varies by platform
> (as usual with MS), but look under Options or Folder Options 
> in Explorer,
> pick the File Types tab, and add .image as a suffix.  Works a treat.
> 
> The harder way is to poke the appropriate part of the 
> registry to do this in
> an automated fashion.  I attach a .reg file that will set up .image,
> .changes and .sources and associate them with C:\Program
> Files\Squeak\Squeak.exe.  I don't guarantee that the icon 
> offsets will stay
> the same between VM versions, but this should give you some 
> idea of how to
> write the appropriate registry entries (and if you're writing 
> an app you'll
> probably want to distribute your own icons anyway).  Created 
> on Windows 2000
> Server, hand-tweaked to canonise(?!) the brain-damaged Windows 2000
> auto-created sequence numbers that aren't portable between 
> machines, and
> saved in REGEDIT4 format so any 32-bit Windoze system should 
> cope with it.
> 
> Health warning: DO NOT RUN THIS REGISTRY FILE IF YOU ALREADY HAVE
> ASSOCIATIONS FOR .IMAGE, .CHANGES OR .SOURCES AS THIS FILE 
> WILL REPLACE
> THEM!  Sold as seen.  Your mileage may vary.  May cause 
> cancer in rats, and
> quite possibly in Windows computers as well.  EC residents 
> please add 17.5%
> VAT.
> 
> This .reg file is contributed under the terms of Squeak-L.  
> Enjoy!  [Andrew,
> is this a good enough clause?  If not, what should I put?]
> 
> 		- Peter
>