open selected file
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Hi all.
I have set a function key on my windows 7 machine to start Notepad++. Works as expected.
I would like to find a way to use that key to open Notepad++ with the currently selected file from explorer.
What I’m looking to do is select a file in explorer, hit the function key, and have the file open in Notepad++. I just can’t figure out what to pass on the command line for the selected file.
Any ideas?Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Kevin Fonda -
without knowing how you did it exactly, a common practice for explorer or registry tweaks is to
use the %1 as a variable which gets replaced by the complete filename.Cheers
Claudia -
What I did was to use the Logitech SetPoint software to set the function key to ‘Launch a Program’. I set the program to launch to
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe” “%1”
It looks like the command line doesn’t see a selected file as ‘%1’.
I guess what I need is a way to access the name of the currently selected file from the command line. -
What I did was to use the Logitech SetPoint software to set the function key to ‘Launch a Program’
OK, I guess this doesn’t work as long as the SetPoint program hasn’t a functionality to communicate with explorer/shell objects.
I guess what I need is a way to access the name of the currently selected file from the command line.
I didn’t use it myself but maybe AutoIt (or similar sw) might be helpful in such a case.
Afaik AutoIt has the possibility to work with COM objects, if so it should be possible
to get the running explorer and shell instance and get the selected file.Cheers
Claudia
