Thread: Dragging file onto program

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    Dragging file onto program

    Ok, to simplify it lets go with a toy example.

    Say I created a program that changes every individual ‘i’ in a txt file to “I”.
    But instead of running the program and selecting the file, I want the user to drag the txt file onto the EXE icon (or possible the shortcut?) and it runs the program on that file with default parameters.

    I have no clue how hard this will be, hopefully simple!
    But I do not no where to begin.

    For Windows (XP) but it would be nice if it was universal for Win32.

    *edit* Crap, I clicked the wrong board! I ment to put this in the Windows board. I suck!

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    I think windows does the right thing of running your program with the full pathnames of the files being dropped as command line parameters.
    That's argv[] if you're using consoles

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    Well I'll be, it does. Doh! Thanks

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