Is It Possible?

[Mina]

hey
its me again

if (for example) you make an app. with a media player plugin in it and build the program eventually. Could you right-click a song, select "Open With" then choose the app. i built? is this possible with ams6?

hope that makes sense

[Worm]

yes, but you will need to process the commandline within your app. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the OS will fire the associated application with the file as a command line parameter. AMS allows you to accept commandlines parameters, so this is definitely doable.

[Mina]

glad its doable.. but "how" is the problem!
if anybody can help me id greatly appreciate it..

[Worm]

You didn't ask that...

Look in the help file for Commandline, you'll find info there for how to deal with them. If you have trouble after that, post some code, and someone here will more than likely help get you going in the right direction.

[Mina]

thnx for the tip but the AMS help file only shows you command line arguments and command line variables..

[Mina]

maybe it has something to do with the Global functions?

[Worm]

if _CommandLineArgs[1] ~= "" then
	--open the file
	sFileName = _CommandLineArgs[1];
	--do whatever you need to here
else
	--no file was passed to the app
end

[TJ_Tigger]

I see that Worm has posted, the story of my life, day late and a dollar short . . . is that violins that I hear. . . That reminds me of a funny story. My kids told our neighbors that they were not able to watch a certain movie because of the violins. Are we raising our kids to be prejudice against violins? NO, but we don't let them watch VIOLENT movies either.

Anywho, here was my stab at the code, I have also added the command line stuff to a project if you want to see how it works.

if _CommandLineArgs[1] then
	if File.DoesExist(_CommandLineArgs[1]) then
		strInput = _CommandLineArgs[1];
	else
		Dialog.Message("ERROR", "There was an error in loading the file.");
		strInput = Application.LoadValue("IR Product CodeViewer\\Settings", "LastFileViewed");
	end
else
	strInput = Application.LoadValue("IR Product CodeViewer\\Settings", "LastFileViewed");
end

The above code was used for the IR Project CodeViewer.

Tigg

[Mina]

appreciate ur help
thnx

[Mina]

to try it i used

result = Application.GetMenu();
Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", result);

but it gives an error: it must be a type of string
what should i do about that?

mina

[rhosk]

Mina, you should really utilize the help guide. Would save you so much posting time, grief, waiting.

Just use the string variables below (sMessage) and apply it to your paragraph object -

function OutputMenu (tMenuToOutput, nLevelCount, sMenuString)
  -- Since we don't want to make nLevelCount required (for the first call),
  -- we have to initialize it if it is not passed to the function
  if not nLevelCount then
     nLevelCount = 0;
  end

  -- sMenuString is not a required variable (for the first call),
  -- therefore we must initialize it if it was not passed to the function.
  if not sMenuString then
     sMenuString = "";
  end

  -- Menu table is numerically indexed, step through for each node
  for nIndex, tMenuItem in tMenuToOutput do
     -- Add the current menu item to the string to return, whether it has a sub menu or not
     sMenuString = sMenuString .. String.Repeat(" ", nLevelCount*4) .. tMenuItem.Text .. " (ID: " .. tMenuItem.ID .. ")".. "\r\n";
     -- Check if a sub menu exists at the current menu's location
     if type(tMenuItem.SubMenu) == 'table' and tMenuItem.ID == -1 then
        -- A sub menu exists.  Recursively call this function to include the sub menu.
        -- Increasing the level count by 1 controls the indent that the item will have in the output.
        sMenuString = OutputMenu (tMenuItem.SubMenu, nLevelCount + 1, sMenuString);
     end
  end

  -- Return the menu string
  return sMenuString;
end

-- Get the menu structure and store in a table
tMenu = Application.GetMenu();

-- Set the title and message for the Dialog.Message box
sTitle = "Current Menu Structure";
sMessage = OutputMenu(tMenu);

-- Display a Dialog.Message box to the user
Dialog.Message(sTitle, sMessage);

[Worm]

Application.GetMenu returns a table, you need to use the table elemtents

result.ID --(number)
result.Text --(string)
result.Enabled --(boolean)
result.Checked --(boolean)
result.SubMenu --(table)

to try it i used

result = Application.GetMenu();
Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", result);

but it gives an error: it must be a type of string
what should i do about that?

mina

[Corey]

I agree with Tigg, peaceful non-violins is the only way to go.

That's the first time I've heard of anyone limiting their childrens' media intake toward that end though. Commendable stuff Tigg, that's some mighty fine parenting. You guys never fail to impress me. Your tykes have got it made in the shade with pink lemonade.

[Mina]

feel so much like a beginner here..
thnx for all the help

[Corey]

You'll be surprised how quickly you can get some decent traction with AMS. The basics are pretty straightforward and once you have those the rest is gravy.