Pierre Quentel wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to create an application on a Windows machine, such that > when a document is dragged and dropped on the application icon on the > desktop, the document is processed by the application > > For instance, if I drag & drop an Outlook message or a PPT > presentation, the application would propose to tag the document with > keywords taken from a database > > Is it possible to do this with a Python script, and how ? > > Regards, > Pierre > If you write a python application and put a shortcut on the desktop, when you drop any file on it in Windows it is passed into the program via the sys.argv list as the second (e.g. sys.argv[1]) argument. If you drop multiple files, they are passed in sys.argv[1] sys.argv[n]. All you need to do is to pick up the filename and do your processing.
-Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
