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Windows Main and Command Line Parameters

Dec 22nd, 2004

Does anyone know how to have a windows program accept command line options?

For example a terminal program just needs a parameter in the main function to accept command line parameters, how can I do the same for a windows main functions, since parameters are already there?

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Re: Windows Main and Command Line Parameters

Dec 22nd, 2004

From the Win32 API reference (as supplied by Microsoft):

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int WINAPI WinMain(
 
    HINSTANCE hInstance,	// handle to current instance
    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,	// handle to previous instance
    LPSTR lpCmdLine,	// pointer to command line
    int nCmdShow 	// show state of window
   );
int WINAPI WinMain(

    HINSTANCE hInstance,	// handle to current instance
    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,	// handle to previous instance
    LPSTR lpCmdLine,	// pointer to command line
    int nCmdShow 	// show state of window
   );

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lpCmdLine

Points to a null-terminated string specifying the command line for the application.

You're not getting it as a nice array of commandline arguments but you are getting it.

Full helpfile is available here: http://www.borland.com/devsupport/bo...s/BC52HLP1.ZIP (it's a Microsoft file supplied by Borland including complete search index).