Win10 not recognising .svx files

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:07:06PM +0000, sam townsend wrote:
> Hoping someone can help, I'm on Windows 10 64 bit machine.
> I've un-installed my old copy of survex and installed 1.2.26
> Now, when I right click a .svx file, I dont get the 'Process' option
> on the contextual menu.
> 
> You;ll notice that the file type is 'SVX File' and not Survex Raw
> Survey Data as it should be.

It sounds like the registry settings the installer is meant to add
aren't getting applied, but I'm not sure why that might be.  1.2.26 got
tested on Windows 7 and works there.

> I've tried right clicking, open with, choosing a program to open it
> with, navigating to Program files\survex and these are my options,,

For "Process" you want aven.exe these days.

For "Open" you want whatever editor you prefer to use.  If you have no
preference, notepad works.

> I believe its meant to be Editwrap.exe (or so someone said)

There used to be an "editwrap.exe", whose purpose was to try running
"svxedit" and fall back to notepad if that wasn't installed.  But
we stopped shipping "svxedit" (because nobody actually wanted to use
it), so there's no need for such a wrapper - you can just run notepad
directly.

> It all works on an old 32bit machine I have (which is windows 10 also)
> its just a bit too s-l-o-w.I checked the file association on there and
> the default app to open it is Notepad, but its all working
> ok.Editwrap.exe is there on this install (1.2.26 also)

That "editwrap.exe" must be left over from an older install - 1.2.17 was
the last release which included it.

Cheers,
    Olly