Windows Drag and Drop

[Dan]

This is not rocket science, but in case anyone doesn't know this...

Here's a simple way to enable drag and drop for MMD on Windows. Create
a desktop shortcut with the following target property:

<path_to_your_perl_exe> <path_to_the_mmd_script> %1

Mine looks something like this:

C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My
Documents\MultiMarkdown\bin\mmd2XHTML.pl" %1

The "Start in" property should be the path to your Perl bin directory.
Mine is:

C:\strawberry\perl\bin

Now just drag an .md file to be converted and drop it on the shortcut.
The output html file will be in the same directory as the .md file.

[Fletcher]

These are the things I forget after not really doing any programming
for Windows in about 15 years....

Is there a way to write a quick shell script to generate one shortcut
on the desktop for each perl script in MMD/bin? In other words, is
there something we can create to make this really easy for non
computer types to do on their machines?

Or, could I create a set of shortcuts for most common perl locations
(if there is such a thing) and zip them for distribution? Would
shortcuts survive the trip?


Thanks for pointing this out!

F-