Windows launcher

There is a Microsoft Windows launcher for FreeMind, written in C.

Function

This launcher provides the following.

Feature	Detail
Icon	Has an icon.
Dropping a file	When a file is dragged and dropped over the launcher, it is passed to Java application as a parameter.
Argument passing	When the launcher is run from a DOS console and given multiple arguments, all are passed to the Java application.
Changing to directory	The launcher has to reside in a directory relative to the application directory. However, it can be run from any other directory. Therefore, if you assign the launcher to a file type, the application is run correctly with the file passed as an argument.

Compilation

This launcher for Microsoft Windows was compiled using Dev-C++.

To download Dev-C++, go to project page at SourceForge.

To recompile it, open the project Freemind.dev with Dev-C++, and compile the project.

The underlying compiler of Dev-C++ was MinGW.

Files

File	Note
Freemind.dev	Project file, to be opened in Dev-C++
Freemind.c	The source code
Makefile.win	Automatically generated filr by Dev-C++
FreeMind.ico	Icon file
FreeMind-butterfly.ico	Icon file, with butterfly icon, instead of light bulb icon
Icon1.rc	Plain text, resource file, describing the location of icons. Contains: #include <windows.h> 100 ICON "FreeMind-butterfly.ico" //100 ICON "FreeMind.ico" 101 ICON "FreeMind-document.ico"
Icon1.o	Object file compiled from Icon1.rc and FreeMind.ico

Gotchas

Things to watch

1. FreeMind.ico must be a real icon, not an icon created by changing the extension of a file from bmp to ico.
2. Icon1.rc is the file telling where the icons is stored. It is a resource file. This resource file is compiled into Icon1.o (object file), which is then linked with freemind.o to create Freemind.exe

Links

• Windows launcher in CVS - directory
• Windows launcher in CVS - source code
• Dev-C++ at SourceForge
• MinGW