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Val(a)IDE cannot edit files on Windows

Bug #758167 reported by ron@horizonchess.com
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
valide
Confirmed
Critical
Nicolas Joseph
valide 0.7.2

Bug Description

Attempting to edit any file results in a pop-up message:

Val(a)IDE doesn't support this type of document,
would you like to open this with the default program?

If I answer 'Yes' nothing happens. If I answer 'No' nothing happens. If I close the pop-up, the box disappears and I am back in Val(a)IDE

I am using Val(a)IDE 0.7.1 on WindowsXP64, SP1

Tags: win32
Nicolas Joseph (gege2061)
Changed in valide:
importance: Undecided → Critical
assignee: nobody → Nicolas Joseph (gege2061)
milestone: none → 0.7.2
tags: added: win32
Changed in valide:
status: New → Confirmed
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Mike Hohm (mikehohm42) wrote :

This bug also occurs in Windows 7 32-bit.

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Monkey (monkey-libre) wrote :

Please, could you try with last valide trunk?
https://code.launchpad.net/~valide/valide/trunk

Thanks in advance

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Gwendal (gwendal) wrote :

Hi,

I hava this bug as well. I wanted to try the last valide trunk, but i'm not sure how to proceed. Could you please give me guidelines ? Should I cross-compile from a linux system, or should I compile under MS Windows directly ?

If I manage to test the last valide trunk, I would be able to tell you if this bug was corrected or not.

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ron@horizonchess.com (ron-horizonchess) wrote : Re: [Bug 758167] Re: Val(a)IDE cannot edit files on Windows

Hi Erwan,

Workaround: Use the Geany editor instead of Valaide to edit files and
use Valaide to manage your project and make the builds.

At the time I filed the Valaide bug report I was investigating
Vala/Genie as a possible language for my project. Because I had some
small but important Vala language issues on the Windows platform I
decided to abandon the language in favor of plain old C.

I never built Valaide for Windows, so I cannot give you any guidelines.
Sorry.

My impression is that Vala/Genie is designed to run optimally on
Linux-based systems. Windows support is minimal. There are very few
people in the Vala/Genie community that know Windows well enough to help
with workarounds.

Try posting your guidelines question to this maillist group for help:
http://<email address hidden>/index.html

Good luck!

Best regards,
Ron

On 11/11/2011 7:42 AM, Erwan Bousse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hava this bug as well. I wanted to try the last valide trunk, but i'm
> not sure how to proceed. Could you please give me guidelines ? Should I
> cross-compile from a linux system, or should I compile under MS Windows
> directly ?
>
> If I manage to test the last valide trunk, I would be able to tell you
> if this bug was corrected or not.
>

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Johan Mattsson (johan-mattsson-m) wrote :

This bug affects Val(a)ide on Windows Vista too. It seems like a problem connected to the mimetype detection code. Files with .vala extention get the mimetype "application/x-ext-vala" and since it does not begin with "text/*" will val(a)ide try to open the file in an external editor. Same mime type issue does affect .vide files as well.

It wold be so nice with a new binara relase to fix this.

Thanks.

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voodooattack (voodooattack) wrote :

To fix this edit the registry like so:

In Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vala

Create a new string key: "Content Type" (without quotes)

Edit the value and change it to: text/plain

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