Shelling your app.

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hi I was just wondering something about be able to shell your program and make it start with a certain function, for example when you shell Regsvr32 and put the space and \u at the end to say unregister a active x control, is there a way to make your vb app shell so that a particular functin is executed? the reason I ask this is I want to add a file asociation to my app, but if I just put the path to my app it will just open my app as it would if they just doubled clicked the exe and not open the file with it.

The command line argument is represented by the Command statement with VB.

Private Sub Form_Load()
    
    'This will open whatever file you type as the argument
    Open Command For Input As #1
    Text1 = Input(LOF(1), 1)
    Close #1

End Sub

In the command prompt, you would write

MyApp C:\FileToOpen.txt

[HeSaidJoe]

' if you put the shell of the file in the
' form load of your app your app opens and
' opens the file as well...
' here it opens notepad and try.txt


Private Sub Form_Load()
    Shell "C:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe C:\try.txt", 1
End Sub