There is Auto Start guide at J Wiki http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Auto_Start
This is good info, so you may want to put it in an "Auto Open" guide. Regarding, re-using J session, the Explorer file settings have a DDE section. Maybe it could work together with J DDE support? --- "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be something obvious to hardened Windows J users, but I > couldn't find anything on the forums or the Wiki, so I thought I'd post > it. > > I often find myself browsing through folders containing *.ijs files in > Windows Explorer and wanting to see what was in a script. Registering > *.ijs files so j.exe starts and loads them, isn't too hard (I think this > might be done during installation but I'm not sure?). The command line > that runs is: > "C:\progra~1\j601\j.exe" "%1" > > [You can find this as follows: > From and Explorer window: Tools/Folder Options/File Types/ > Select "IJS" from Registered file types > Click on Advanced and Edit the "open" action > ] > > Unfortuately on my system this action has the default Windows name of > "open" when, from a J point of view, it is actually a load. What I > really wanted was for j.exe to start & just open the script file. > After a bit of reading & experimentation I found that the following > command line would do just that. > "C:\progra~1\j601\j.exe" -js "open '%1'" > > I renamed the existing action to "load" and created a new action called > "open" with the above command line in the "Application used to perform > action" edit box. > > Now when I right click on a *.ijs file in Explorer, I'm given the option > to open or to load it. I'm happy. > (Well almost! At the moment each script I "open" starts a new copy of > J.exe. This has advantages but sometimes I'd like to have them opened by > one copy. The other thing that I tried was dragging & dropping script > file(s) on an open *.ijx window but that obviously isn't supported) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
