[Wine] Re: Registry override?

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sun May 25 10:42:04 CDT 2008


jcfuller wrote:
> I first installed kchmviewer.
> 
> I then created the file run_prog:
> #!/bin/sh
> $1 "`wine winepath -u "$2"`"
> 
> I tested by running from a terminal
> run_prog kchmviewer c:\MyChmFile.chm
> This worked fine
>  
> I edited the registry entry for chm.file to
> /usr/bin/run_prog kchmviewer %1
> 
> 
> > 
> > Note:
> > While researching regedit I noticed the reference to wineprefixcreate at:
> > http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys
> > 
> > Do you now call wineboot to update?
> > 
> 
> 
> A windows program using ShellExecute with "open" on c:\MyChmFile.chm appears to still call HH.EXE
> 
> Is it possible to override wine using HH.EXE?
> 
> Last tested on clean install of rc2
> 
> 
> James


You need to associate that file extension properly - see [HKEY_CLASSES] registry hive. It works the same as on windows.







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