assign file type to a game?

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Hi,

i want to make a mac game with a simple level editor that allows people to write a custom XML file type with my own extension they can share.

Is there a way to register my unity game to open this file type in OS X (and to do this abstract for the user, so when they got the game from the app store, the icons for the level XMLs should change to my defined icon). SO when people double-click the XML someone sent them via e-mail, it should simply open the game and load the level from the file.

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Answer by Landern · Oct 12, 2014 at 03:20 PM

Update your applications info.plist and associate with your xml file type.

You can get the command line arguments with System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs, i assume osx/windows standalone will pass in the full path of the argument(the file).

You may want the first scene to have an awake method/function that checks for the arguments if it has arguments, take action, otherwise load other scene(default).

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KpjComp · Oct 12, 2014 at 03:26 PM 0

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Would that not associate all xml's with his program, if so that seems to me to be a bad idea, as the user might have the X$$anonymous$$L file already associated with some of editor etc. I know I would be angry if a game I played broke my X$$anonymous$$L editor link.

Wound't creating a different extension, like *.SomianGameLevel, and then associate that with his game? An X$$anonymous$$L file doesn't have to have an X$$anonymous$$L extension.

Somian · Oct 12, 2014 at 03:29 PM 0

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Like I stated above, i'll use my own extension and just name it .awesomeGameLevel or something :)

thanks.

That's the first part. the second is: how does my game know it's supposed to load the level right away when it launches? And how does it get the path to the level the user opened?

Landern · Oct 12, 2014 at 03:39 PM 0

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@$$anonymous$$pjComp the specificity was already in @Somian's original question ("custom X$$anonymous$$L file type with my own extension they can share"), so others won't get all jumpy, i've updated my answer.

An X$$anonymous$$L file doesn't have to have an X$$anonymous$$L extension.

Never said it did.

KpjComp · Oct 12, 2014 at 06:39 PM 0

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Yeah don't worry, it was they way I interpreted this bit -> "and associate with your xml file type." For some reason the word type didn't register.

assign file type to a game?

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