Hai
I’m new to MyPaint
[popup menu: Layer > Edit Layer in an External App…]
where can I edit the path to an Image editor like gimp, inkscape or krita in external app
I’m running everything portable, build a portable PAF version from MyPaint 1.2.0
Mypaint can find XnView and Nexus Image
but I want Krita or Gimp and Inkscape in the list of programs
Edit: I’m using MyPaint on windows 7 
MyPaint is supposed to offer a list of available apps on all platforms, based on file associations on Windows, or MimeType
fields on FreeDesktop environments, or whatever it is that OSX does 
There needs to be a file association in place for this to work, in other words.
There’s an issue with more recent GLibs that causes a hard crash when trying to open the dialog. Luckily, @tumagonx’s 1.2.0 build uses the older GLib and also shows the dialog.
There’s a workaround for the crash on newer GLib now. Unfortunately it just removes the dialog on Windows. Time to switch to GtkAppChooserDialog
, maybe? Or executable paths as an alternative.
But to actually answer your question: navigate to the file in Windows Explorer or to a file with the same extension, press the right mouse button over it, choose Properties, click on the General tab, and next to “Opens with:”, click on the “Change…” button.
@chadwick
"There needs to be a file association in place for this to work"
big thx
I presumed that
but its a bit strange
the list shows
- “Inkscape portable” got no association to *. png,
will not start [no path found]
- “NexusImage portable” got no association to *. png,
find the portable and start
- “XnView portable” got no association to *. png,
find the portable and start
I got “Krita portable”, or “Gimp portable” associate to *. png
the top of the pop-up shows it
but not one will show up in the list
I need to walk through the reg to see if wpp/cafe got some leftovers in the file associations
in creating a vector layer and start an ass. program
it finds and start “inkscape portable”
creating a vector layer works without any problems
No problems with Wacom Intuos, no lag at all in the brushes.
even for my 7 year old intel and old Nvidia 405
and I got no problem in making @tumagonx build portable
a very big thx to @tumagonx
OK
I know a bit more now to ask the right question, I hope
Can someone tell me in which file the information get stored
shown in the list of the pop-up [Layer > Edit Layer in an External App]
win version
MyPaint retrieves the information not only from the reg
but it also remembers the old entries made
I would really like to know where it stores that data
never mind, got a nice clean list now with links that work