command line

[accessman2]

In VB6,

I go to project properties->Make->command line argument, I input some values over there.

After that, I go to make exe file. Why the exe file doesn't have command values?
Can we make the exe file with command line arguments?

 

[boblarson]

You can use that to pass the executable information when opening. For example, I have in one of my programs, a command line argument listed as strOpenParams and then using the SubMain() I parse it when the program starts to pull it into the different parts.

So, running the program command line is like this:

C:\Program Files\MyProgramFolder\MyProgram.exe !f C:\Documents and Settings\Bob\Desktop\MyTestFile.xls !d 4/1/2007 !t s

So my program assigns everything past the MyProgram.exe to strOpenParams and then in the SubMain() it splits out the parts based on the ! mark. I used that one as I was having trouble with - and / in the possible inputs. So, that's how to use them.

 

[accessman2]

So, VB6 cannot make exe file with command line argument itself, right. We have to manually place command line argument into the exe file.
Is it correct?

 

[boblarson]

Yes, you have to open up the properties to create an argument that you can populate at runtime. What are you trying to accomplish?