[San-Diego-pm] Detect invocation method?

[Reuben Settergren]

Ah, that last one is perfect!

Registry/DropHandler seems preferable in terms of elegance (I can do that
for my own machine), but wrapper is probably more practical given
uncertainty about target platforms.

Thx mucho!

r



On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Brian Manning <elspicyjack at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Brian Manning <elspicyjack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2010/12/10 Reuben Settergren <ruberad at gmail.com>:
> >> Is there any way to package up a perl script (or .bat?) such that input
> >> file(s) can be selected with the mouse, and dragged into the icon for
> the
> >> script, so that the script would then run with the (full?) paths to the
> >> selected files as its command-line arguments? (This is a mac paradigm,
> >> right? I've never seen this on windoze or unix)
> >
> > I don't know what Perl on Windows (it sounds like that's what you're
> > using) does with files that are dropped onto Perl scripts; I guess it
> > would be up to your Perl distribution and how it installs itself into
> > Windows, i.e. what shell hooks it adds when it installs, and not a
> > function of Perl itself.
>
> Looks like people make .cmd files and/or hack up their Windows
> registries to do this.
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/705851/how-do-i-create-drag-and-drop-strawberry-perl-programs
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
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