"Open With" always passes in the filename

[JimW]

I have a tool I want to launch with Open With, but it does not want any parameters. Even if I don't pass anything in, it looks like BC puts %f after it, which confuses my tool.

Minor issue, but hard to work around.

JimW

[Zoë]

That's intentional behavior, so I'm not sure it'll change soon. I can think of two ways two work around it though:

1) Create a batch file that launches your app. BC will pass the filename into the batch file, but it won't get passed in to your app.

2) Abuse cmd.exe. This flashes a console window for a split second, but does work directly from the Open With settings:

cmd /c start notepad && echo "%f"

Just replace "notepad" with your app.