[Not a ZDoom bug] Drag & Drop [might not be a zdoom issue]

Shockwav3 · Post by **Shockwav3** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:20 pm

everytime i use drag and drop to play some wad/demo with zdoom it completly fucks up my system.
first of all my explorer wouldn't display itself as a website anymore (you know, that nifty little thingie on the left, which displays some additonal file information, previews, etc]. next thing is that half of my startmenu would disappear and links won't work for programs anymore [no application for this file, program not found]

i'm running win2k with servicepack 4, on a AMD Athlon 750, 384mb SDRam, GF3TI200 128MB.

Ultraviolet · Post by **Ultraviolet** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:39 pm

Service pack 4? Wow. I'm really behind. I don't ev-- nevermind.

Tai · Post by **Tai** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:41 pm

WHAT is Drag & Drop? O_o

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:51 pm

Use Windows Explorer, negotiate to your zdoom folder. Click on a wad file you want to play and "drag and drop" in onto zdoom.exe.

There was a problem with this recently, regarding zdoom's accounting for the "current directory" and path to the zcajun folder. Randy fixed it in 60.cab, I wonder if somehow it's messing with the path environment variable for shockwav3??

Shockwav3 · Post by **Shockwav3** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:43 pm

well ... these are my paths from the zdoom.ini

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[IWADSearch.Directories]
Path=.
Path=$DOOMWADDIR
Path=$HOME
Path=$PROGDIR

[FileSearch.Directories]
Path=$PROGDIR
Path=$DOOMWADDIR

maybe i should not that the wad which is dragged and dropped was in the same folder as the port

Post by **randi** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:39 pm

Sounds like your system is seriously messed up. Using drag and drop is the same as typing "zdoom.exe somefile.wad" at the command line.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:51 pm

Or more accurately, "zdoom.exe somedrive:\somepath\somefile.wad"

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:33 pm

HotWax wrote:Or more accurately, "zdoom.exe somedrive:\somepath\somefile.wad"

Heck, if the WAD is in the same folder as ZDoom, all you have to do is type in the file...

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c:\games\zdoom>ZDOOM VRACK3

Or if you want all your wads in a subfolder and run them from there...

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c:\games\zdoom>ZDOOM .\D2WADS\VRACK3

Post by **Chris** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 8:02 pm

You can even just mention the path(s) to your PWADs in your zdoom ini file, just use the wadfile name, and ZDoom will automagically find it in the PWAD folder you specified.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:40 am

I know, weasel, but Windows controls what the command-line is, and unless otherwise specified in the registry, the default command-line when a file is dragged onto an executable is:

[path\executable.ext] [path\droppedfile.ext]

So, even if "mywad.wad" was in the same folder as ZDoom, when you drop it on the exe, Windows sends this command line: (assuming the folder is C:\Games\ZDoom)

C:\Games\ZDoom\zdoom.exe C:\Games\ZDoom\mywad.wad

ZDoom than infers an understood -file parameter and it loads. This is the right way to do things because no matter where the WAD is (in another folder, on a floppy disk, etc) it'll get loaded properly.

Also, I was being unnecessarily anal, hence the smiley.