startup an application from the associated document 2

[phkwang]

When an application is started by double clicking the associated document, can anyone give me a pointer or two on how to write the startup code of that application to open the actual double-clicked document too?

TIA,

 

[DrJavaJoe]

Do a search for the ShellExecute API.

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[mattKnight]

In short, the filename that was double clicked is (or should be) passed to the executable as a command line argument.

So from VB you need to check the command$ value or from c++ the values of argc and argv





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Matt
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