Drag & Drop to Launch an App

[MikeC]

Looking in the user manual there is info on using D&D within an app.

But is it possible to drop a preferences file on a standalone app to cause it to launch and load those preferences on start up?

Or am I missing something?

Thanks.

[FourthWorld]

On OS X the paths of files dropped onto an app are available from the request command within an appleEvent handler, checking for the oapp event - see the dictionary entry for "appleEvent" for details.

On Windows and Linux the paths of files dropped on the app are available in the global vars $1, $2, etc. You can obtain the number of such globals by checking the value of $#.

[Klaus]

Hi Mike,

welcome to the forum!

Sorry, I did not try this before myself, but check the entry for $ (dollar sign) in the dictionary.


Best

Klaus

[MikeC]

Thanks folks, found useful stuff in the lessons.
It's just a case of knowing where to look first.