Title: Yet another take on located the application associated with an extension
Question: how to find the application associated with a given extension
Answer:
Seems like every other example I've seen involved checking the registry, so I figured I'd throw this one up since it does the exact same thing, but in a different manner(got to have options and all that)
procedure TMnfrm.btnClick(Sender: TObject);
var fst : TFileStream; App:array[0..255] of char;
ret:integer; fnam,ext : String;
begin
app:='';
// I used a TCombobox to list a bunch of common extensions
if extbox.Text = '' then extbox.ItemIndex:=0; ext := extbox.Text;
if ext[1] '.' then insert('.',ext,1);
// apnam is TEdit where I display the final result
apnam.Text:='';
fnam:='tmp'+ext;
// img is just a TImage
img.Picture.Icon.ReleaseHandle;
fst := TFileStream.Create(fnam,fmCreate OR fmShareDenyNone);
fst.Free;
{*Find the associated EXE for this file type*}
ret:=FindExecutable(PChar(fnam),nil,App);
if ret31 then begin //Assocation found!
if ExtractFileName(app) fnam then begin
apnam.Text:=ExtractFileName(app);
// this line gets icon from the application
img.Picture.Icon.Handle := ExtractIcon(Hinstance,app,0);
end else apnam.Text:='No Associated App';
end else apnam.Text:='No Associated App';
deletefile(fnam); //clean up...
end;
So now have at least two ways of doing this, there are probably more, but I can't really say as I wish to persue this any further