"Open in.." - setting the external Application manually

[voronwe]

Hi
I did not found whether this is possible:
When making a right-click on an Image in IMatch, I get the  point "Open with IrfanView".
This is my setting for the file system, because it is the fastest Viewer I know.
However, when being in IMatch, I'd like to open the file in Affinity Photo. So is there a way to set this only for IMatch?

[Mario]

Many ways to do that.

See Opening Files in Other Applications, especially Pick an Application and Applications Favorites and Adding Favorites to the File Window Toolbar

[voronwe]

Thanks a lot, that workes

However, especially Affinity made it much more unconftable since Version 2, as this not a simple executable anymore but a Windows App, which can not be adressed directly.
I had this problem allready with Lightroom, and the solution was to call a -.bat file with the following entry:

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start /b affinityphoto2.exe %1
exit
I attached it if somebody needs it.

In IMatch, do the following:
Favorites-Panel: Right-Click -> "New external tool"
Add the following (Name is up to you)
In Arguments, it is important to set the quotation-marks, otherwise it will get problems with files which have a space in the path

Hope that helps other people

[Mario]

Thanks for sharing.
I made an addendum to the IMatch 2023 help system already to cover this.
I use Affinity Designer 2 and ran into the same issue and fixed it in the same way.