Hi, My first post. A general query. I wish to launch an executable from a file associated with the program. However I need to lauch it with a parameter from the file I am double-clicking on. Double-clicking a file is just telling Windows which program to launch it with but is this an accessible process? Is this feasible? Thanks.
Yes. Any application like a notepad is associated with the .txt files and this is because Windows sends the file name in parameter which is opened by the application.
Hi, Thanks for the response - not quite what I am after. I know the file is already associated with the program like Notepad launches when you double click a .txt file as in your example. I want my application to launch with say a command line parameter so it opens in a specific way. The parameter I want to use it would extract from the file I double-click on. So 2 different files could launch the application in a different mode. Is this possible?
Yes, but what you would have to do is have the program parse that file for the parameter. Or you could create a new program that parses the file, then launches the first program with the file and the parameter.
