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Re: How to associate a file to an bound exe Euphoria program.

• Posted by Andrew Katz <Akatz712 at gmail.com> Apr 07, 2007
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Judith Evans wrote:
> 
> Andrew Katz wrote:
> > 
> > I wrote an application in Euphoria for MS Windows using Win32lib and the
> > IDE.
> > It can load and save files of a particular extension. I would like the
> > ability
> > to click on one of these saved files and have my program load this file. I
> > already
> > know how to open and read a file in Euphoria. 
> > 
> > What I need is:
> > 1. Access to the code that executes on starting up a Euphoria application.
> > 2. The format of the passed arguments when a user clicks on a file in
> > Windows
> > and how that is seen in Euphoria.
> > 
> > I guess Derek would know this. And Judith can tell me where in the IDE such
> > code can be placed.
> > 
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Here is what IDE does when the user clicks a file name with .prj extention.
> Look in the Eu docs for information about command_line. You also need to have
> made a filetype to execution program association in Windows[tm] so clicking
> the file knows to start your program. For example C:\Euphoria\BIN\EXW.EXE
> C:\EuphoriaMine\IDE\ide.exw
> %1 will start IDE when filename.prj is clicked. 
> 
> params = command_line()
>         if length(params) > 2 then
> 
>             --params might contain valid filename
>             params = params[3]
> 
>             --get the long name if there is one
>             d=dir(params)
> 
>             if not atom(d) then
>                 --find the filename minus path
>                 for i=length(params) to 1 by -1 do
>                     if params[i] = '\\' then
>                         params=params[1..i] & d[1][D_NAME]
>                         exit
>                     end if
>                 end for
>             end if
> 
>             if length(params) then
>                 --read the project
>                 --open and read file here
>             end if
>          end if
> 
> 
> This code is in the main window w32HActivate event.
> 
> Does this answer you question?
> 
> judith evans

Thank you.

Andy Katz
B.S. Computer Science, 1978
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)