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Mohammad Adib
Mohammad Adib

Reputation: 818

Associate file format with my program (Java)

I am making Scouting Software (in Java) for my FRC robotics team. Scouting is like collecting data on other teams' robots during competition. It is absolutely critical that my program makes that process as simple and easy as possible. My program can save its data in two ways, one of which is by writing a .scout file to the user's hard drive. All this is working well, but as a finishing touch i would like to implement a way to associate .scout files with my program so that .scout files are opened with my program. It's like .docx for Microsoft Word. It associates .doc/.docx/...etc to itself such that when the user clicks on a file with those extensions, Word opens itself up and then opens the file the user clicked on. I want something like this for my application. Keep in mind, it is written in Java and meant to work on different operating systems (Windows, OSX, Ubuntu Linux, etc).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1882

Answers (1)

Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson

Reputation: 168835

Does the program have a GUI? If so, launch it with Java Web Start.

JWS can associate a file-type with an application on Windows, OS X & *nix. Here is a demo. of the JNLP API file service that associates the .zzz file type with the demo. app.

Upvotes: 2

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