Is there any common interface for running applications with arguments?

**Arsham** · 22nd May 2011, 11:30

Maybe I could extract the information from what the applications registered in the system's context menu.
Any suggestions?

**SixDegrees** · 22nd May 2011, 11:51

How much "pain" is involved in this? It typically takes only a few minutes to write a command-line processing loop, if that.

**Arsham** · 22nd May 2011, 11:55

I am making an application which sends a bunch of files to the unknown application to work on them.
The problem is we don't know what kind of cd burner/archiver is installed, and the application could be run on windows or linux.

Thanks for the reply.

**DanH** · 22nd May 2011, 22:38

Originally Posted by Arsham

Maybe I could extract the information from what the applications registered in the system's context menu.
Any suggestions?

You might be able to do that on some systems. Or simply use the in-built facilities of the system to "send" work to the default receiver of that work. Would of course depend a lot on the specific system you're using.

Added after 5 minutes:

Originally Posted by Arsham

I am making an application which sends a bunch of files to the unknown application to work on them.
The problem is we don't know what kind of cd burner/archiver is installed, and the application could be run on windows or linux.

Thanks for the reply.

Probably your best (simplest, most flexible, most general) bet is to allow the command line to be defined in your app, using substitution variables of some sort (eg, "&file.", "&drive.") to specify where in the command line the variable parms would be inserted. eg:

glibnix -f &file. -d &drive. -write-upside-down