Gabriel Genellina wrote: > At Friday 20/10/2006 12:20, Ben Sizer wrote: > > >I'd like to be able to drag a file onto a Python script in Windows > >Explorer, or send that file to the script via the Send To context-menu > >option, so I can then process that file via sys.argc. > > > >Unfortunately, I can't drag items onto the Python script, because > >Windows doesn't recognise that the script is executable (unless I > >double-click it, upon which it runs as usual, without the command line > >parameter of course) > > Create a shortcut and drop the file over it.
Doesn't work; the mouse cursor changes to the "not permitted" sign and when you release the mouse, nothing happens. > >and won't set it as a drop target. And it won't > >even appear in the Send To menu after the usual steps are taken to get > >it there. > > Same here: put a shortcut to the script on your SendTo folder > (wherever it resides) That is what I meant by 'the usual steps'. :) It doesn't work. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list