trapping parameters by launch of program

[Danny De Koster]

Hi all,

I'm really a newbie.
How can I trap (read in my program) the parameters which where giving at the
launch of the my program?

thanks for any tips
Danny

[Raoul Watson]

"Danny De Koster" <dd*@fidelity-soft.be> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm really a newbie.
How can I trap (read in my program) the parameters which where giving at the launch of the my program?

thanks for any tips
Danny

You can use the "command" function
(parameterstring = command)
To test it in the VB environment, you can go to the Project Properties under
the "Make" tab and set the argument there.
If you type command and get help on it, there is a good example

[Danny De Koster]

Raoul,

What I want to achieve is receiving a variable that has been send when I
launch my program.

ex.: c:\foto\foto.exe filename.bmp

I want to know the filename that has been given.
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"Danny De Koster" <dd*@fidelity-soft.be> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm really a newbie.
How can I trap (read in my program) the parameters which where giving at the

launch of the my program?

thanks for any tips
Danny

You can use the "command" function
(parameterstring = command)
To test it in the VB environment, you can go to the Project Properties

under the "Make" tab and set the argument there.
If you type command and get help on it, there is a good example

[Raoul Watson]

"Danny De Koster" <dd*@fidelity-soft.be> wrote in message
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Raoul,

What I want to achieve is receiving a variable that has been send when I
launch my program.

ex.: c:\foto\foto.exe filename.bmp

I want to know the filename that has been given.

That is *exactly* what command will give you. *Whatever* parameters were
passed. For example:

c:\program files\program.exe /picture.bmp, sound.wav

will return "/picture.bmp, sound.wav"

[Danny De Koster]

indead. it works. Thank you very much Raoul.
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"Danny De Koster" <dd*@fidelity-soft.be> wrote in message
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Raoul,

What I want to achieve is receiving a variable that has been send when I
launch my program.

ex.: c:\foto\foto.exe filename.bmp

I want to know the filename that has been given.

That is *exactly* what command will give you. *Whatever* parameters were
passed. For example:

c:\program files\program.exe /picture.bmp, sound.wav

will return "/picture.bmp, sound.wav"

[LG]

Here is a snippet of code I wrote to handle command line switches that might
help:

--snip--
If IDEMode = True Then
strCommand = "-d -t10"
Else
strCommand = Command
End If

strCmdArray = Split(strCommand, " ")

For intLoop = 0 To UBound(strCmdArray)
strCommand = strCmdArray(intLoop)
Select Case Left(strCommand, 2)
Case "-t"
If Val(Mid(strCommand, 3)) < 10 Or Val(Mid(strCommand, 3)) >
60 Then GoTo CmdError
tmrPing.Interval = Val(Mid(strCommand, 3)) * 1000
Case "-d"
blnDebug = True
Case "-?"
GoTo CmdError
Case Else
GoTo CmdError
End Select
Next
--snip--

As you can see, it allows for multiple command switches. This can be
improved of course, and IIRC I do have a rather advanced one somewhere, this
was just the one I found first.

Cheers
G