Most operating systems have an option when browsing the filesystem to open a specific file with an application that the user chooses. Of course, this means sending arguments to a program in one way or another, and that the programmer must add some way of recognizing these arguments and using them to process the data.
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How to open a text file with 'open with' option by the software , created by visual basic?
In Windows we can open a text file by right clicking on a it, and selecting 'open with' option by any software like notepad, notepad++ etc. I want to create a notepad type software using visual basic , Which can open (load) any text file using 'open…

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How to undo always openwith option
I am not able to open my ipynb file as I by mistake clicked on alway open with option of acrobat which is converting my ipynb file to acrobat as soon as i download it. please guide how to undo this action of mine

Yachna Srivastava
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GAS Google Drive
this is question related to google apps script and Google Drive.
Is there any way to construct a URL for a file that causes opening that file in desktop application?
I'm basically asking whether it is possible to access "Open With" application list…

Petr Sedláček
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How to let Android know my app can open MP4 files
I don't know how to properly phrase this question. However I'll do my best. When I'm in my phones web browser and I click a direct video link example(https://test-videos.co.uk/vids/bigbuckbunny/mp4/h264/1080/Big_Buck_Bunny_1080_10s_1MB.mp4) The…

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Append data frame to an existing csv files with different number of columns
How can i append data frame to an existing csv files in python? I am using the following code but this does not check if the columns are matching or not.
new_dataframe.to_csv("my_file.csv")
How can i open a csv file and append a data frame to it…

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Read barcode from a pdf file with React Native
I want to open a pdf file found in the phone/device storage with a React Native app and be able to read the barcode numbers found in the pdf itself.
I've seen some apps, many banking/financial ones, that let you open a bill in pdf format with the…

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How to get file to open with python app I made
For the past month I've been writing a desktop application for MacOS using Python. It requires opening files and saving compressed data to them. This application creates files using a my own made up extension, so the files are not usable for for…

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Open With... context menu, different label for executables of same name
I have multiple versions of an application where the executable has always the same name, just the file's path is different. When installing I would like to create a entry in the Open With... context menu and add the app's version to the…

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Replace row data in file
I have two files: file1, file2.
In file1 I have lines with data that I'm parsing into list1 with skipping empty rows and making an elements lowercase:
file1:
dATa02
datA03
dAta04
with open('file1', 'r') as f:
list1 = [l.lower() for l in…

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Add "Open with eclipse" in the windows explorer file submenu
Sometimes you would like to open a file directly inside eclipse without having it included in any eclipse project.
On those cases it would be very handy to have the option Open with eclipse in the Windows explorer.
Please, do not misunderstand me,…

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Appium - open in browser
Testing mobile application using appium. When I run to test, my application opens, I can do some action, and then when I login, app takes me to browser to login to the cloud which is OK, but my problem is in the emulator. I have a question that…

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How to call open with dialog for an Android app
I have an Android app for example a file manager.
When the user clicks a file I want to call open with dialog and run the app to open the file.
How can I do that?

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I accidentally changed my .whl file to open with notepad and I cannot change it back
I have accidentally changed my pygame .whl to open with notepad. This means I get this error when trying to install pygame with the CMD. What I typed
pip3 install pygame-1.9.3-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
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pygame-1.9.3-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl is…

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UIDocumentInteractionController to open with URL from web without saving in Swift
I need to open a file from web url and open in other apps that have installed in the device using UIDocumentInteractionController
var controller:UIDocumentInteractionController?
self.controller? = UIDocumentInteractionController.init(URL:…

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Preview and open-with
I see that the file created with Realtime playground at my Google drive supports Open With functionality. Despite preview is not available, I can click it and playground app reopens. How do I do the same with my app. I have created a demo one, to…

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