Hi,
I'm writing a program that basically reads some data from a file, processes it, then outputs to another file.
When openning files, I always depended on 1 thing: The file is in the same directory. The user simply types in the file name, so the program searches in the same directory of the program*.
I want to make it easier to open files, and even open up the opportunity to open multiple files in the same execution (not at the same time of course).
If I use the simple method mentioned above, the user will have to put all the files in the same directory*, and he will have to type all there names which is a big hassle.
So I experimented a little with arguments. I figured out that when you drop a file on the program executable (the actual file), the file name is passed as an argument.
However, this is a bit unusual. I personally have never seen a program that does that, and it may confuse many users.
So I was wondering if there was a way to input a file by drag and drop. There's no problem with time, I need it at a specific time only - not all the time.
By the way, I'm running windows. I think this information is needed, since the problem sounds system specific.
Thanks
*unless the whole path is input, which is not at all efficient.