Starting an application from a file

[Jason Charalambides]

Hello,
My question is: How do I get my application to start by double clicking on a
file. I have made my application to save files with a specific extension.
I associated those files to my application through the standard routine of
windows (double clicking, a pop up menu asks me what application I want to
start this file with etc.). However, if I click on a file, it does start
the application but I do not see the contents of the file. Instead, I need
to go to the "File, Open" menu and re-open the file to get all the data. It
is like clicking on a word document and starting MS Word but it is all
blanc.
Could someone please let me know what I need to add to my application to
read the existing files when I double click them so that I don't need to use
the File-Open menu?
Thank you in advance for the help.
J.C.

[xyz]

Double clicking causes the operating system to launch the application
and it passes the file that you clicked as a parameter. Your
application may be ignoring these start-up parameters.

You can test by typing your command with a parameter from
Start->Run

For example: C:\appdir\app.exe C:\appdir\file.ext

Your application should check to see if a parameter was specified, and
if so, open the file in the parameter.
If your application can handle this type of invocation, it will
probably work properly when the "file.ext" is double clicked.

xyz
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 00:32:54 GMT, "Jason Charalambides"
<da************@netscape.com> wrote:

Hello,
My question is: How do I get my application to start by double clicking on a
file. I have made my application to save files with a specific extension.
I associated those files to my application through the standard routine of
windows (double clicking, a pop up menu asks me what application I want to
start this file with etc.). However, if I click on a file, it does start
the application but I do not see the contents of the file. Instead, I need
to go to the "File, Open" menu and re-open the file to get all the data. It
is like clicking on a word document and starting MS Word but it is all
blanc.
Could someone please let me know what I need to add to my application to
read the existing files when I double click them so that I don't need to use
the File-Open menu?
Thank you in advance for the help.
J.C.

[Sado]

Jason Charalambides wrote:

Hello,
My question is: How do I get my application to start by double clicking on a
file. I have made my application to save files with a specific extension.
I associated those files to my application through the standard routine of
windows (double clicking, a pop up menu asks me what application I want to
start this file with etc.). However, if I click on a file, it does start
the application but I do not see the contents of the file. Instead, I need
to go to the "File, Open" menu and re-open the file to get all the data. It
is like clicking on a word document and starting MS Word but it is all
blanc.
Could someone please let me know what I need to add to my application to
read the existing files when I double click them so that I don't need to use
the File-Open menu?
Thank you in advance for the help.
J.C.

See the documentation about how to retreive parameters with the Command
function.

/Z

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