Hello monks, I am working on Windows, and have associated .plx as direct run perl script. It means, when I double click on a .plx file, Windows will invoke the perl interpreter to run the script file. Now I wonder if I can drag drop another dir/file/shortcut to the .plx file, and the .plx file could somehow retrieve the file path as argument.

I actually have a workable solution, which is to create a .bat file as the argument taking interface, and then forward to the script via %1 %2... But I'd like to see if this can be more straight forward (ie. directly drop on the .plx file). Thank you very much for any clues.

In reply to Taking argument via drag-drop to a perl script by exilepanda

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