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Opening text files from the File Explorer in my app isn't working

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I made a notepad app where one can open, modify and save files. It works perfectly. But when I open a .txt file from the File Explorer window, there opens just my app with empty wxTextCtrl.

I find this very natural: Of course Windows 10 cannot know that this app opens and saves txt files. So it just opens my app and no file. But my question is: How can I tell the File Explorer, that when the txt file is opened, run the OnOpen() method, for example?
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Re: Opening text files from the File Explorer in my app isn't working

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If a file is opened with application (e.g. by dropping it on the exe), you will receive its path as command line argument, accessible through wxAppConsole::argc/argv
https://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classw ... 31a5e8bfc5
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Re: Opening text files from the File Explorer in my app isn't working

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Thank you! If the number of arguments is not equal to 1, I open the file of the second argument. If it is equal to 1, I just start the app normally.
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