[General] Maps auto-opening in the WE

[Gismo359]

So, I have 2 computers each running on Windows 7, but the WE doesnt seem to act the same way for both of them.
On my laptop when I open a map via double click it automatically opens in the World Editor, but on my stationary computer they just open a blank map.
I read a thread here on the hive about it and from what I understood the solution was reinstalling WC3, because it currently is locally installed. I tryed doing that but it didnt make any difference.
Any other suggestions?

 

[Chaosy]

there was a solution to this.. I can't remember the thread name. Anyway Hashjie created a .reg file that was supposed to fix that.

 

[Ezekiel12]

Look here.

 

[Gismo359]

Look here.

Ah, yes that did the job for the .w3x, but I dont have a w3m_auto_file. Instead there is a w3x"_auto_file. I changed its value to nothing and didnt affect the loading of the map and it loaded just as I wanted. Could it be that the w3x"_auto_file has to be w3m_auto_file?

 

[Dr Super Good]

The registry mapping associating the map file extension with the WorldEdit executable is missing.

With a bit of hacking around in regedit.exe you can fix it.

There should be two parts.
1. A file extension mapping that informs the OS what command to run when default running a certain file extension.
2. A command mapping that converts a command into an actual physical command. This hides all your command line stuff like flags and things from the user.

 

[Gismo359]

I'll see what I can do when I get on my computer.

EDIT: Yeah, there wasnt anything with w3m in the registers. I just renamed the w3x" ones and fixed their paths and it worked, hope that wnot interfere with something else.

 

[Dr Super Good]

hope that wnot interfere with something else.

Unless you overwrote something that already made sense (which clearly it did not seeing how it was not opening maps?), it should not affect anything at all.