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Associate file extensions #302
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I just tested associating a few file extensions with the editor. This mostly works and, contrary to what I thought, WITHOUT admin priviledges. There are a few oddities that I need to investigate whether they are issues with pixi or with the original menuinst code that conda uses (AFAICT, pixi uses rattler_menuinst which is just a port of menuinst to rust, so I suppose the behavior should be the same -- unsure what code (micro)mamba uses or wether they support menus/file association).
the icon is the "generic executable" one, not the one specified. A pity but not a blocker.Edit: This was specific to pixi and is fixed for their next release.- the files type appear in File Explorer as
.<ext> LArray Editor.AssocFile.<ext> filewhich is quite strange/ugly/confusing but not a blocker. Edit: fixed in Pixi for their next release (I must still report it to menuinst) - running the editor with (a) file(s) as argument should open the File Explorer instead of loading them (because that's faster and we support a lot more formats that way): Open File Explorer for file(s) passed as command-line argument(s) #303
- we should only associate files for which our users probably do not have a viewer installed: .h5, .hdf, .feather, .ipc, .arrow, .parquet, .ddb, .duckdb
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gdementen commentedon Mar 10, 2026
requires #306
gdementen commentedon Mar 20, 2026
I couldn't resist including this in the 0.35.1 milestone even if that's supposed to be a bug fix release because it seems to me like a low effort/low risk but high impact feature.
alixdamman commentedon Mar 20, 2026
I am curious of how you manage file associations ? Is it via the meta.yaml file to build the conda package ?
gdementen commentedon Mar 20, 2026
via menuinst v2 which includes that capability in addition to creating shortcuts. So, it is not via meta.yaml but packagename.json in the conda recipe directory. I haven't updated to v2 yet, but this is the object of #306
alixdamman commentedon Mar 20, 2026
Thanks for your reply
FEAT: associate file types with editor (closes larray-project#302)
FEAT: associate file types with editor (closes larray-project#302)
FEAT: associate file types with editor (closes larray-project#302)