appleEvent for dragdrop file on non running app

[Klaus Major]

Hi Meitnik at aol.com:

> Hi all...I want to handle droping a file on standalone to force it to 
> run and
> open the file. my code so far is this:
>
> on appleEvent pClass,pID
>    if pClass = "aevt" and pID is in "odoc oapp" then
>      request appleEvent data
>      if it = "" then exit appleEvent
>      openFileRoutine it
>    end if
> end appleEvent
>
> on openfileroutine fpath
>    open file fpath
>    read from file fpath until eof
>    close file fpath
>    put it into data
>    --parse the data given from it
> end openfileroutine
>
> However, its not working. What am I doing wrong?

Quick guess:

Is the path in "it" from the appleevent in Mac format?
I mean : (colon) as a separator?


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de