This launcher for Microsoft Windows was compiled using Dev-C++ <http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html>.

To download Dev-C++ go to project page at SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/>.

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



Chances are that it can be compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ too.







This launcher provides the following.



1) Has an icon

2) When a file is dragged and dropped over the launcher, it is passed to java application

   as a parameter

3) When the launcher is run from a DOS console and given multiple arguments, all are passed to

   java application

4) 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.





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

