Annex 2 Associated project file and versions of WISE

When you have multiple versions of WISE installed on your computer and you have opened the WISE geoproject file with different versions of WISE, the dialog window may appear as depicted in the figure below asking you whether or not you want to associate the WISE project file with the current version of WISE that you accessed in the steps described in the section Starting WISE.

This functionality provides the possibility to associate project files with the extension *.geoproj with different versions of WISE installed on your computer. This is the case when there is more than one Geonamica-based system installed on your computer.

Associating project file

When Geonamica project files (*.geoproj) are not associated with this version of WISE, you will see the Associate project files dialog window on start up.

  • If you select the checkbox in front of Don’t ask me again before you click the Yes or No button, your answer will be remembered next time. When you open next time WISE, the system will always take the action that it remembered and the system will not display this dialog window.
  • Clicking the Yes button on the message window above means that the next time you double-click the icon of the project file Waikato.geoproj, the WISE application window will open directly which is linked to the current version of WISE.
  • Clicking the No button on the message window above means that nothing will be changed. The next time you double-click the icon of the project file Waikato.geoproj, the application window will open with which *.geoproj files are currently associated.
  • It makes no difference whether you press the Yes or No button if you have only one version of Geonamica.exe installed on your computer. You can skip this sub-section.

Adjusting file association in preferences

After defining the setting for the project file association, you can adjust it via the Options menu in WISE. To do so,

  • Go to Options menu → Preferences. The Preferences dialog window opens with three options.
  • Select the option of your interest and press the OK button in the File association part.

Here you can select which action should be taken when Geonamica project files (*.geoproj) are not associated with this version of WISE. Note that this is only verified when you open WISE. The default option is “Ask me what to do”. If this is selected and project files are not associated with Metronamica, you will see the Associate project files dialog window described above on start up. The system will check automatically if there is a newer version of WISE available if the check box at the bottom is selected.

Checking the associated version

You can check with which version of Geonamica the .geoproj project file is associated using the following steps.

  • Right-click on My Computer and select Explore.
  • Click on Tools from the menu bar and select Folder Options… from the drop-down menu.
  • Click the File Types tab in the Folder Options window.
  • Scroll down in the Registered file types: window and select GEOPROJ under the Extensions column.
  • Click the Advanced button near the bottom of the Folder Options window.
  • Select Open with Geonamica from the list in the Actions window and then click the Edit… button to the right side.
  • The Editing action for type: Geonamica®Project window opens.
  • In the text box under Application used to perform action, you can see the path of the Geonamica.exe with which the .geoproj file types are currently associated.