I've tried searching the forum but it doesn't seem to turn anything up. In short, I want the IDE to auto open certain file types using an associated external program, whenever I double click the file in the managers projects tab. That should be fairly obvious from the topics title.
However as much as I've seen by poking around the UI, it's required to right click and use the 'open with' to reach that. Whether or not it's possible to create a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut to open the currently selected file with an external tool instead of the file extension handler or internal editor, I would consider that kind of solution to be side stepping something that should logically be built into the IDE, or a user demonstrating their level of brain damage \o/. The value of auto running a program on double click ranges from using an external code editor, to viewing attached image files, and well beyond. I doubt the internal code/hex editors were designed to handle every possible type of file, and there's no valid excuse for having to be explicit every time you want to open a file with a different program. Visual C++ can handle this type of configuration fairly well but rather lacks Code::Blocks portability, in both several senses of the word ^_^.
Since Code::Blocks has grown a scripting language since our last date (Cica 2005), it occurs to me to ask: is it possible to make a script (or even a plugin) that could enforce using a the file extension handler on the double click of a file in the manager window, rather then auto opening it in the IDEs editor? The stuff on the wiki is a bit, disappointing.
If not, the only things I can think of, is building my own binaries with a personal patch set to add it by force, or finding a more mature tool then Code::Blocks.