> al jones <alfredmjo***@shotmail.com> wrote:
>>A fellow who uses my 'toy' asked if would be possible to drop a folder of
>>files / folders to be processed onto the desktop icon ( well, of course it
>>would ;) ) My question is how do I detect that in a vb 2005 program??
>
> When the windows shell has items dropped on an executable (or shortcut
> to an executable), then it launches the executable and passes the
> names of those items as command-line arguments. So:
>
> Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>   For Each fn As String In My.Application.CommandLineArgs
>     TextBox1.AppendText(fn & vbCrLf)
>   Next
> End Sub

> al jones <alfredmjo***@shotmail.com> wrote:
>>A fellow who uses my 'toy' asked if would be possible to drop a folder of
>>files / folders to be processed onto the desktop icon ( well, of course it
>>would ;) ) My question is how do I detect that in a vb 2005 program??
>
> When the windows shell has items dropped on an executable (or shortcut
> to an executable), then it launches the executable and passes the
> names of those items as command-line arguments. So:
>
> Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>   For Each fn As String In My.Application.CommandLineArgs
>     TextBox1.AppendText(fn & vbCrLf)
>   Next
> End Sub

"al jones" <alfredmjo***@shotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:51:36 -0800, Lucian Wischik wrote:
>
>> al jones <alfredmjo***@shotmail.com> wrote:
>>>A fellow who uses my 'toy' asked if would be possible to drop a folder of
>>>files / folders to be processed onto the desktop icon ( well, of course
>>>it
>>>would ;) ) My question is how do I detect that in a vb 2005 program??
>>
>> When the windows shell has items dropped on an executable (or shortcut
>> to an executable), then it launches the executable and passes the
>> names of those items as command-line arguments. So:
>>
>> Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
>> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>>   For Each fn As String In My.Application.CommandLineArgs
>>     TextBox1.AppendText(fn & vbCrLf)
>>   Next
>> End Sub
>
> Okay, Lucian, you got me into this.... :)
> I was already checking for some command line arguements of my own so
> making
> this addition was easy - once I knew where to look.
>
> But now for the dumb logic portion of this - I process the command
> arguments in formload.  What I want is to bypass the 'Run' button if they
> drop a folder on the program icon, just take the existing options, use
> this
> folder and go from there.
>
> No, not being reasonable (I deleted my first attempt here) I'd like to
> display the form as I do have progress bars, etc on it.  But I'd also like
> it set so that they don't have to click on anything - they've already
> given
> me what I need - so I'd just like to load everything and pretend they
> clicked 'Run'.
>
> aside: I should probably move the command line processing to a seperate
> function (it's beginning to get to be unwieldly) but I still have to
> return
> to form load which will expect input .... suggestions???
>
> //al

> "al jones" <alfredmjo***@shotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1lwte88yjzjsn$.eygq4tgtm4gz.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:51:36 -0800, Lucian Wischik wrote:
>>
>>> al jones <alfredmjo***@shotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>A fellow who uses my 'toy' asked if would be possible to drop a folder of
>>>>files / folders to be processed onto the desktop icon ( well, of course
>>>>it
>>>>would ;) ) My question is how do I detect that in a vb 2005 program??
>>>
>>> When the windows shell has items dropped on an executable (or shortcut
>>> to an executable), then it launches the executable and passes the
>>> names of those items as command-line arguments. So:
>>>
>>> Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
>>> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>>>   For Each fn As String In My.Application.CommandLineArgs
>>>     TextBox1.AppendText(fn & vbCrLf)
>>>   Next
>>> End Sub
>>
>> Okay, Lucian, you got me into this.... :)
>> I was already checking for some command line arguements of my own so
>> making
>> this addition was easy - once I knew where to look.
>>
>> But now for the dumb logic portion of this - I process the command
>> arguments in formload.  What I want is to bypass the 'Run' button if they
>> drop a folder on the program icon, just take the existing options, use
>> this
>> folder and go from there.
>>
>> No, not being reasonable (I deleted my first attempt here) I'd like to
>> display the form as I do have progress bars, etc on it.  But I'd also like
>> it set so that they don't have to click on anything - they've already
>> given
>> me what I need - so I'd just like to load everything and pretend they
>> clicked 'Run'.
>>
>> aside: I should probably move the command line processing to a seperate
>> function (it's beginning to get to be unwieldly) but I still have to
>> return
>> to form load which will expect input .... suggestions???
>>
>> //al
>
> 1.) Before loading your form, in the apps Main method, parse all of your
> command-line switches (and yes, I would break this out into a separate
> method or even class if it is getting larger).
>
> 2.) Create a new constructor for your form that accepts the argument(s) that
> are passed from the command-line.  Initialize any members to these arguments
> if required.
>
> 3.) Instead of having your processing code in the "Start" buttons event
> handler, move this logic into a separate method.
>
> 4.) In your "Start" buttons event handler, call the method created in step
> 3.
>
> 5.) In your forms load event handler, check to see if all the required
> values are present via members/properties set in step #2.  If they are set,
> call the form's Show method and then call the method created in step 3.
>
> This should help get ya started to allow drag-n-drop onto the exec as well
> as using the gui to specify required arguments.
>
> HTH,
> Mythran
>
>