I decided to drag my Notepad2.exe file onto my DOpus toolbar so that I could have a button that would allow me to drag and drop a particular file onto the button and open it in Notepad2 (a quicker way than right-clicking and then selecting "open with" and then "notepad2").
However, when I drag a file onto the button, it only opens an untiled document in Notepad2, not the actual file I dragged onto it.
So I decided to make a shortcut in my quick launch bar for Notepad2 (windows xp), and dragging a file onto the button works perfectly to open that particular file. I'm wondering if I can get the same behavior in DOpus. Any ideas?
Hi Jon, thanks for the quick reply. I tried inputting those characters into the command line but can't seem to get it to work. I really don't know what I'm doing so I tried putting the characters in different positions in the command line. What I have now is:
cd "{f}"D:\Portable Apps\\Notepad2""
"D:\Portable Apps\Portable Program Files\Notepad2.exe"
I put the {f} character right at the beginning, inside the first quotation mark - everything else I left untouched. Am I putting the {f} characters in the wrong position?
You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by just turning on the Application toolbar (which comes with Opus by default). It includes a Notepad button working exactly as you want.
Alternatively there are hundreds of threads here showing examples of buttons and usage of modifiers and arguments.
If you use {filepath$} in the command line, it will automatically run the program once for each file.
If you use {allfilepath$}, it will run the program once and pass all of the filenames, one after another, on a single command line.
Which one of those is best depends on the program. Some programs also have other ways to pass lots of files to them (e.g. via a temporary text file that lists all the paths) which can help when there are a lot of files and/or very long paths. (Windows has a limit to how long the command line can be, which cannot be bypassed.)
