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Joseph
Joseph

Reputation: 74

catch the file when we "open with" file to a electron app

Catch the file when we "open with" file to a electron app

I have created media player in electron and want any media file to play inside my app whenever i right-click and open with my-app, should play the video, which not happening now. Technically, i want to catch the file and play it, whenever its open-with my-app.

I have created media player in electron and want any media file to play inside my app whenever i right-click and open with my-app, should play the video, which not happening now. Technically, i want to catch the file and play it, whenever its open-with my-app.

I hope you guys will help me to find an answer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 475

Answers (1)

SynerCoder
SynerCoder

Reputation: 12766

Use the open-file event on the app object when running on macOS, on windows you need to parse process.argv. See the docs: https://electronjs.org/docs/all#event-open-file-macos

Upvotes: 1

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