How can I make Version 7 default in Windows 7?

On 2016-12-16 10:33, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

On 17/12/2016 4:28 a.m., Joerg wrote:

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

 

 

These are the words you need:

 

In regedit:

Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications and find your .exe

name. (eagle.exe)

 

The problem is, it's not there

Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the 'Default' change

its location to the actual location of the executable, is will look

similar to this :

"C:\Eagle7-7\bin\eagle.exe" "%1"

 

Hit okay.

 

You should not need to re-associate the file type but if you do you

should see the eagle icon has changed as they are different by Eagle

version.

 

The above works for me.

I have 5 versions of Eagle on my PC and I can change which version gets

used by default for the associated file types.

 

Warren

 

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

On 2016-12-17 02:41, Joern Paschedag wrote:

Am 16.12.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Joerg:

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

Joerg schrieb:

 

I am not an OS expert and maybe it shows

 

Anyhow, because several clients of mine did not upgrade to V7 I must

  also keep V6 on the computer. It rns Windows 7 64-bit Professional.

Any time I click on a *.sch file it opens it in V6. I cannot even

select in Windows to open in V7 because Eagle V7 doesn't show in the

menu.

 

So far the only way to open such files is to fire up V7, then go

through the file open menues and open the file. Of course, this does

not work with an Eagle file attached to an email which will always

open in V6.

 

What gives?

 

Hello Joerg,

 

welcome back here.

 

I vaguely remember having had about the same problem. In the selection

dialog for the "standard program", only "EAGLE" is shown - without any

version information, and so you can't tell which version to use. Even

worse, even if you explicitly select the path to a particular version,

windows will later still use the previous default.

 

 

That is exactly what happens.

 

 

AFAIK, the cause for this problem are the registry entries that EAGLE

creates during installation. The "program name" (or so) is set

identically for all versions of EAGLE, and windows just picks the first

match when setting the "standard", regardless of the (manually and

explicitly) given path.

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

 

 

Hi Joerg long time  no hear...

 

I too have clients who want modifications etc. in their "old" eagle

versions.

Generally I never install in the default partition (C:\) but into

different hd partitions.

 

I want to keep the number of partions small. Programs go in C:\, data in

E:\ and common info such as literature that doesn't need to be

preotected in F:\.

On windows desktop I have the icons for the different versions of eagle

and each pointing to the corresponding path by using the "-U" parameter.

I didn't find it in "help" but finally found it in (version 5)

\doc\update_en-txt:

 

  - The new command line option '-U' can be used to define the location

     of the 'eaglerc' file in which EAGLE stores user settings.

 

Unfortunately  I didn't find much more about this parameter, but you can

also change the name of the eaglerc-file ie. "eaglerc-512.usr":

 

E:\EAGLE-5.12.0\bin\eagle.exe -U E:\Eagle-5.12.0\eaglerc-512.usr

 

This means that my eagle is on drive E:\eagle-5.12.0 and the

eaglerc(-512) file is in that directory too.

This goes for other versions as well. Of course the paths must be set in

the control panel too.

It worked for me in all windows OS and now in win 8.1.

 

That gets complicated. I think I'll just accept this Eagle-quirk for a

while and thus have to store files first so I can open them from within

Eagle instead of clicking on the file name. Not nice but at least that

works.

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Joerg schrieb:

I want to keep the number of partions small. Programs go in C:\, data

in E:\ and common info such as literature that doesn't need to be

preotected in F:\.

That's exactly the way I do.

On windows desktop I have the icons for the different versions of

eagle and each pointing to the corresponding path by using the "-U"

parameter. I didn't find it in "help" but finally found it in

(version 5) \doc\update_en-txt:

 

- The new command line option '-U' can be used to define the

location of the 'eaglerc' file in which EAGLE stores user

settings.

 

Unfortunately  I didn't find much more about this parameter, but

you can also change the name of the eaglerc-file ie.

"eaglerc-512.usr":

 

E:\EAGLE-5.12.0\bin\eagle.exe -U E:\Eagle-5.12.0\eaglerc-512.usr

 

This means that my eagle is on drive E:\eagle-5.12.0 and the

eaglerc(-512) file is in that directory too. This goes for other

versions as well. Of course the paths must be set in the control

panel too. It worked for me in all windows OS and now in win 8.1.

 

That gets complicated. I think I'll just accept this Eagle-quirk for

a while and thus have to store files first so I can open them from

within Eagle instead of clicking on the file name. Not nice but at

least that works.

When running different versions of EAGLE at the same computer you need

to use different eaglerc.usr files anyway that point to different

folders with libraries, projects etc.

However, this is not related to the original question.

Anyway, with EAGLEs really weird control panel and the lack of support

for ambiguously located and named projewct files, it's best to first

start EAGLE and then select projects and files from there.

I also work file-oriented with all my tools - except for EAGLE. :-\

Tilmann

On 2016-12-18 04:36, Tilmann Reh wrote:

Joerg schrieb:

 

I want to keep the number of partions small. Programs go in C:\, data

in E:\ and common info such as literature that doesn't need to be

preotected in F:\.

 

That's exactly the way I do.

 

Software should not require its own partition to run properly.

On windows desktop I have the icons for the different versions of

eagle and each pointing to the corresponding path by using the "-U"

parameter. I didn't find it in "help" but finally found it in

(version 5) \doc\update_en-txt:

 

- The new command line option '-U' can be used to define the

location of the 'eaglerc' file in which EAGLE stores user

settings.

 

Unfortunately  I didn't find much more about this parameter, but

you can also change the name of the eaglerc-file ie.

"eaglerc-512.usr":

 

E:\EAGLE-5.12.0\bin\eagle.exe -U E:\Eagle-5.12.0\eaglerc-512.usr

 

This means that my eagle is on drive E:\eagle-5.12.0 and the

eaglerc(-512) file is in that directory too. This goes for other

versions as well. Of course the paths must be set in the control

panel too. It worked for me in all windows OS and now in win 8.1.

 

That gets complicated. I think I'll just accept this Eagle-quirk for

a while and thus have to store files first so I can open them from

within Eagle instead of clicking on the file name. Not nice but at

least that works.

 

When running different versions of EAGLE at the same computer you need

to use different eaglerc.usr files anyway that point to different

folders with libraries, projects etc.

 

However, this is not related to the original question.

 

Anyway, with EAGLEs really weird control panel and the lack of support

for ambiguously located and named projewct files, it's best to first

start EAGLE and then select projects and files from there.

 

I also work file-oriented with all my tools - except for EAGLE. :-\

 

In some user-friendliness aspects Eagle is stuck in the 20th century.

However, I have to say that it is very robust software. Unlike Orcad it

has never crashed running on Windows XP. On Windows 7 64-bit it does

crash but only rarely, not to an extent where it impedes my work.

I am surprised how many companies here in the US are using Eagle by now,

especially small ones where innovation mostly happens.

Back to the bowl of brandy beans now ... :-0

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/