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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Preview .DBA files in Windows Explorer

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Burning Feet Man
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Posted: 20th Nov 2012 22:18
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Firstly, I take no responsibility for you corrupting your registry! Only attempt the following if you know what you're doing.

I had a problem over the weekend where I needed to view mass .DBA files easily, and thought it strange that I couldn't preview them in the Windows Explorer preview pane. So I figured since I can view text files in the preview pane, a .DBA is a text file with a .DBA extension (correct me if I'm wrong), thus, to preview .DBA file in Windows explorer, all I needed was to add this key to the Windows registry via regedit;

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dba

PerceivedType as Text



Annnd with that simple reg entry, you can now view your .DBA files in Windows Explorer preview pane.



Pretty handy.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Nov 2012 09:26 Edited at: 21st Nov 2012 09:27
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Neat. Is there a way to prevent the word-wrap?

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Burning Feet Man
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Posted: 21st Nov 2012 10:48
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Ahh, good spot Phaelax. I had a quick poke about Google but couldn't find any cheat sheets on this functionality. Maybe someone else will be able to find this out?

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Sergey K
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Posted: 21st Nov 2012 14:18
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i use total commander. it has an amazing lister allows me to preview any kind of source file. you can even make your own source file format with own highlights on it.. it also allows me to open any kind of large files in notepad with in a second! even if its 1000GB file..
highly recomended

total commander:
http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm

total commander lister's plugins/addons
http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm#lister

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