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I'm having trouble putting this to words. I want the user to doubleclick an INI, making my program run, and use that INI for its information.

Seems tricky. I've been looking at PostMessage or OnMessage, but I'm not seeing anything helpful.

Thanks in advance!
-Shane

No, no, no. The INI file extension is already defined for windows as a Configuration file.
My advise is to not mess with existing protocol.

If you wanted, you could create a different file extension and associate your program with that new file extension.

This would sorta be like TXT files opened in Notepad, PDF files in Acrobat Reader, or DOC files in MicroSoft Word or Wordpad.

What type of application are you wanting to make?
Maybe the forum can suggest a better alternative solution.

yes, I did not literally want to change all INIs to my program. sorry for not being clear. I was going to make a new file extension which I would use exactly like an INI, but it would only be used between a couple of my programs.

Here's the plan. One program gathers information, saves it to INI alternative: "SINI"

That file is sent to another user, who can then double click it, which opens another Gui program simply to display the saved information.

I could use the fileselectfile, but I thought this would be nicer.

I have come across something of interest here. Thanks shimanov. It uses DLLCalls to gather all processes and displays their name and command line.

I took from it what I needed in order to simply get the name of the file which triggered my program to run, then opened it with INIREAD.

His script was way over my head, and so were my ambitions, but I got it working, and hope to have a moment to study his work.

correction:

Hi dicanus,

I can't vouch for the script, but I found this is in the forum.
Perhaps it will help you with completing the task.

How to create a file association (sample script)
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic27599.html

oh snap i just did this for the AHK MouseRecorder (MoRe)
, I used a GUI, heres a snip:

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OK, I have found my solution! I am posting here in case anyone stumbles across this looking for an answer to the same question.




Simple enough. It returns the program being run, and the program/file that triggered it. Now I can take an INI and drag it onto the compiled program's icon, and the program will run, reading the contents of that INI.

I'm sorry I got caught up in the whole SINI bit, that was not part of the concern; it was only the dynamic INI possibilities.

Thanks to all those who helped!
-Shane

Have you seen these ?

Built-in Variables
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Variables.htm#BuiltIn

Script Properties: command line parameters, A_WorkingDir, A_ScriptDir, A_ScriptName, (...more...)

No, I was looking for the command that triggered this instance of the program... not the program itself.