Aloha everyone. Thanks for all the help lately. I discovered a limitation, and I'm already afraid it's a Bill Gates oversight, not Bob Zale's. But I thought I'd ask.
Suppose I create an application in PB/CC that processes BMP files. Normally, when you double-click a BMP file, it will open with some kind of picture viewer (you can tell Windows to 'associate' certain file types with certain applications). But you can also override the association by RIGHT-clicking the BMP file, and choosing "Open With..." (in Windows XP anyway). From there, you can select a compiled PB/CC program. The filename can be picked up with COMMAND$.
It works fine. The issue? Selecting/highlighting more than one BMP file, and trying to use "Open With..." to open them all with the PB/CC program. In that case, only one instance of the PB/CC program will launch and COMMAND$ will only show one filename, not all of them.
Ideally, I'd like to easily open multiple files with a single instance of a PB/CC program and have all filenames show up in COMMAND$. Because I'll be sharing the application with others, I can't rely on re-associating BMP files (other people will likely be reluctant to re-associate a common file to open with my application).
Ideas?
Suppose I create an application in PB/CC that processes BMP files. Normally, when you double-click a BMP file, it will open with some kind of picture viewer (you can tell Windows to 'associate' certain file types with certain applications). But you can also override the association by RIGHT-clicking the BMP file, and choosing "Open With..." (in Windows XP anyway). From there, you can select a compiled PB/CC program. The filename can be picked up with COMMAND$.
It works fine. The issue? Selecting/highlighting more than one BMP file, and trying to use "Open With..." to open them all with the PB/CC program. In that case, only one instance of the PB/CC program will launch and COMMAND$ will only show one filename, not all of them.
Ideally, I'd like to easily open multiple files with a single instance of a PB/CC program and have all filenames show up in COMMAND$. Because I'll be sharing the application with others, I can't rely on re-associating BMP files (other people will likely be reluctant to re-associate a common file to open with my application).
Ideas?
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