Re: opening a filetype with a turnkey

At 04:07 PM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote:

> > The question is.. when my turnkey opens the file "automatically" by
> > clicking on the file itself, where can my turnkey "find" the filename so it
> > can process it properly?
>
>If I am not mistaken, the program is launched as if you had typed in the
>command line "program-name file-name". You should be able to get the file
>name as the second command line argument (or argv(1) in C parlance). I
>don't have SF right in front of me here, but I think you should be able to
>get the argument without much trouble.
>
>It seems that there is an ARGC and ARGV in Swift, but they're not
>documented in the FPM or Swift User's Manual, so you'll have to
>interrogate your system source to figure out how to use them!

ARGC ( addr len -- n ) Returns the number of blank-delimited words
in the string.

ARGV ( addr1 len1 n -- addr2 len2 ) Returns the Nth word (counting
from zero) in the string addr1 len1.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

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Received on Mon Dec 16 2002 - 13:23:08 PST