Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the apps
form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when these
actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
8  3993 
See Command function in help. When you drop a file on your app's icon, your
app will start & Command will hold the filename. So in the form's load
event, you can
FileName = Command
'do whatever
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@sparta.btint ernet.com... Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the
apps form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when
these actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
What about if I wanted to drag some text from a web page onto my form Icon
and then process the text.
k_zeon
"Norm Cook" <no******@cable one.net> wrote in message
news:vl******** ****@corp.super news.com... See Command function in help. When you drop a file on your app's icon,
your app will start & Command will hold the filename. So in the form's load
event, you can
FileName = Command
'do whatever
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@sparta.btint ernet.com... Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the
apps form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when
these actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
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"k_zeon" <k_****@hotmail .com> wrote What about if I wanted to drag some text from a web page onto my form Icon
and then process the text.
Do you see any application that can do that?
LFS
Thanks Norm
"Norm Cook" <no******@cable one.net> wrote in message
news:vl******** ****@corp.super news.com... See Command function in help. When you drop a file on your app's icon,
your app will start & Command will hold the filename. So in the form's load
event, you can
FileName = Command
'do whatever
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@sparta.btint ernet.com... Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the
apps form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when
these actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
When I assign Command to FileName I get, for example, "C:\Program
Files\MyApp\Fil eToDrop.txt"
I already know how to remove the quotation marks from the string but is
there any way of splitting the path and the filename and assigning them to a
different string?
e.g
FileName = "FileToDrop.txt "
Path = "C:\Program Files\MyApp\"
Thanks
Paul
"Norm Cook" <no******@cable one.net> wrote in message
news:vl******** ****@corp.super news.com... See Command function in help. When you drop a file on your app's icon,
your app will start & Command will hold the filename. So in the form's load
event, you can
FileName = Command
'do whatever
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@sparta.btint ernet.com... Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the
apps form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when
these actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
Paul,
You might try the SPLIT command. Dim a variant to recieve the values and
then address it as a zero-based array.
Dim vPathData as Variant
vPathData = Split(Path,"\")
At this point you have:
vPathData(0) = "C:"
vPathData(1) = "Program Files"
vPathData(2) = "MyApp"
etc....
Hope this helps,
Jim
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... When I assign Command to FileName I get, for example, "C:\Program
Files\MyApp\Fil eToDrop.txt"
I already know how to remove the quotation marks from the string but is
there any way of splitting the path and the filename and assigning them to
a different string?
e.g
FileName = "FileToDrop.txt "
Path = "C:\Program Files\MyApp\"
Thanks
Paul
"Norm Cook" <no******@cable one.net> wrote in message
news:vl******** ****@corp.super news.com... See Command function in help. When you drop a file on your app's icon,
your app will start & Command will hold the filename. So in the form's load
event, you can
FileName = Command
'do whatever
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@sparta.btint ernet.com... Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the
apps form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when
these actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
I always use the following function for this. You could use it as is
or just pull out the bits useful for your app.
Regards,
Andrew
' Written by: Office Developer Edition Code Librarian
' Revised by:
' Purpose: Takes a file path and returns either the path, file,
drive or
' file extension portion depending on which constant was
passed in
' Dependencies:
' Comments:
' Error constants
Public Const ERR_SUBSCRIPT As Long = 9
' Enumeration constants
Public Enum opgParsePath
FILE_ONLY
PATH_ONLY
DRIVE_ONLY
FILEEXT_ONLY
End Enum
Public Function ParsePath(strPa th As String, lngPart As opgParsePath)
As String
Dim lngPos As Long
Dim strPart As String
Dim blnIncludesFile As Boolean
' Check that this is a file path. Find the last path separator.
lngPos = InStrRev(strPat h, "\")
' Determine whether portion of string after last backslash contains
a period
blnIncludesFile = InStrRev(strPat h, ".") > lngPos
If lngPos > 0 Then
Select Case lngPart
' Return file name.
Case opgParsePath.FI LE_ONLY
If blnIncludesFile Then
strPart = Right$(strPath, Len(strPath) - lngPos)
Else
strPart = ""
End If
' Return path.
Case opgParsePath.PA TH_ONLY
If blnIncludesFile Then
strPart = Left$(strPath, lngPos)
Else
strPart = strPath
End If
' Return drive.
Case opgParsePath.DR IVE_ONLY
strPart = Left$(strPath, 3)
' Return file extension.
Case opgParsePath.FI LEEXT_ONLY
If blnIncludesFile Then
' Take three characters after period.
strPart = Mid(strPath, InStrRev(strPat h, ".") + 1,
3)
Else
strPart = ""
End If
Case Else
strPart = ""
End Select
End If
ParsePath = strPart
ParsePath_End:
Exit Function
End Function
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message news:<bj******* ***@hercules.bt internet.com>.. . When I assign Command to FileName I get, for example, "C:\Program
Files\MyApp\Fil eToDrop.txt"
I already know how to remove the quotation marks from the string but is
there any way of splitting the path and the filename and assigning them to a
different string?
e.g
FileName = "FileToDrop.txt "
Path = "C:\Program Files\MyApp\"
Thanks
Paul
"Norm Cook" <no******@cable one.net> wrote in message
news:vl******** ****@corp.super news.com... See Command function in help. When you drop a file on your app's icon,
your app will start & Command will hold the filename. So in the form's load
event, you can
FileName = Command
'do whatever
"Paul" <12************ **@btinternet.c om> wrote in message
news:bj******** **@sparta.btint ernet.com... Hi,
Does anyone know how I would be able to drag a single file onto my
applications icon and have it run some predefined code.
What I want is to drop an .mp3 file onto my applications icon (not the apps form) and perform the necessary actions then give a confirmation when these actions are done then quit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
> When I assign Command to FileName I get, for example, "C:\Program Files\MyApp\Fil eToDrop.txt"
I already know how to remove the quotation marks from the string but is
there any way of splitting the path and the filename and assigning them to
a different string?
e.g
FileName = "FileToDrop.txt "
Path = "C:\Program Files\MyApp\"
StringToParse = "C:\Program Files\MyApp\Fil eToDrop.txt"
LastSlash = InStrRev(String ToParse, "\")
If LastSlash Then
FileName = Mid$(StringToPa rse, LastSlash + 1)
Path = Left$(StringToP arse, LastSlash)
Else
Colon = InStr(StringToP arse, ":")
FileName = Mid$(StringToPa rse, Colon + 1)
Path = Left$(StringToP arse, Colon)
End If
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