Studio behaviour when clicking a file

Question

Hi all,

I had already sent this question to my local contact but she referred to this support website:

Either by new installing Studio 2015 or by an update of Studio 2014 one of the properties of Studio 2014 was changed, and I need to know how to get back to the former version:

Before this change it was possible to click on a project- or package file and open the file in Studio. If you now click on a sdlproj or sdlppx file, Studio 2014 opens – or opens again, if already running, in a second instance– but without opening the file in only of both instances. Instead opening only works by opening the file from the application’s menu “Open project” or “Open package”.

Windows standard is that clicking on a file opens not the application but even the file you have clicked on. So I don’t understand why Studio now has a behaviour which is not standardlike.

Is there any one who knows how to to change Studio back?

I am working with Windows 10.

Thanks in advance.

Jörg

Ola Marcinkowska · Accepted Answer

If anyone stumbles upon this thread, I found a solution. I went to Regedit and found 2 keys with improper settings, 1 for SDLXLIFF files and 1 for SDLTM files. I first deinstalled my Studio, deleted all remaining Studio files from all discs (also from Temp folders), restarted the computer, rechecked Regedit and those 2 keys were still there. I deleted the keys, restarted the computer, installed Studio again, and voila! :-)

Alison Field · Answer

Hi J&ouml;rg, If I have understood your question, this is how Studio has always behaved and it is not contrary to Windows functionality. If you want to open an sdlxliff file in one step, you have to click on the sdlxliff file itself, which is exactly how files behave in other Windows applications. However, that would not be useful if the sdlxliff file is already part of a project, as a second project file (.sdlproj) would be created in the same folder as the sdlxliff file. To open a file within a project, you have to first open the project. That is logical. 
 Then you can open the sdlxliff file by clicking on it in the list in the 'Files' view in Studio. 
 Also, when you have a project that contains multiple sdlxliff files, you may only wish to open one at a time and it would be therefore very inconvenient if Studio automatically opened them all at once. Particularly if you actually wanted to open them together as a virtual merge file, very useful if files contain repeated content that can then be autopropagated, saving you time and improving consistency. You can do this by highlighting all the files you wish to open, right-clicking and selecting 'Open for Translation' (or '...Review' if you're proofreading). Finally, you mentioned opening a second instance of Studio. This can be done deliberately by clicking on your Studio icon again and can be useful, for example if a large file is taking a long time to verify, you can open Studio again and start work on the next job in your workload. Hope this helps, Ali

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Studio behaviour when clicking a file