Re: How can an app find the file it was launched from

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From: ldg
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 03:28

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In <1989Dec12.203919.25080@csmil.umich.edu>, holtz@zurich.csmil.umich.edu
(Brian Holtz) writes:

>How can an application find the file it was launched from?

If by "file it was launched from" you mean the document you clicked on to
launch the application that created it, then use CountAppFiles and
GetAppFile, which are documented in Inside Macintosh, Vol. II, pages 57 & 58.
If you can't get your hands on IM II, I could Email you the syntax,
parameters, etc.

If you have something else in mind when you say "file it was launched from"
then I am at a loss to help you.

Lyle D. Gunderson  N6KSZ          CIS: 73760,2354     GEnie: L.GUNDERSON
zebolskyd@acoust.byu.edu          "Any technology without some attendant risk
350 CB / BYU / Provo, UT 84602   of misuse is probably trivial"  --Loise Kohl

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From: ldg@yoda.byu.edu
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Subject: Re: How can an app find the file it was launched from
Summary: Try GetAppFiles
Keywords: application,find,launch
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Date: 14 Dec 89 03:28:40 GMT
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