Posted by SirPoonga on February 12, 2002 at 18:08:42:
In Reply to: Cat Sort 1.0 released! posted by Howard Casto on February 11, 2002 at 23:43:12:
man, where were you a months ago?
I built category sorting into my frontend. Except I have to sort to a DB, not to the HD so I just realized your utility isn;t for me.
It's cool though. You should make it have the ability to use commandline params. Did in in VB? it's easy to do command line params in VB. Just make sure all commands are use -[letter].
Then split that into an array with sometihng like myvar$ = split(cmdline, "-").
Then just look at the first letter, determine the varibale the rest needs to be stored in and run your util with those params.
You would have to set your project to run using Sub main not form. Then just detect right away if there are no commandline args then show the form, otherwise process the command line args.
Youmay knwo that already but I can't assume much since I never really met you.
That's the only thing I don't like about ArcadeFX and utilities like this. If you plan on putting a smaller HD in your cabinet you don't want to run out of hd space copying files. That's why my frontend is database driven, all usable data stored in db, physical data stays on hd in one location.