I am using KDE 3.4.3 on Gentoo and I just started doing some Perl scripting at work, but they are using Windows. We have scripts where you drag & drop a folder onto a perl script, and it does whatever it is supposed to do and usually spits out a text file somewhere (for reports, etc.) I can get this to work, but I am thinking there must be a keyword, or special variable, or something that I can't find a reference to anywhere. The way I get it to kind of work, is by right clicking on my perl script, and clicking on Properties, and then clicking on the wrench icon for Type, and then under Application Preference order, adding Perl, clicking on Edit, then going to Application and under Command I typed this:
/usr/bin/perl /home/carl/PerlScripts/Work/ProjectProgress.pl

It then works as I want it to, but it changes ALL of my perl scripts to execute this script, so is there a keyword or something I could use as the second argument that would mean "Whatever script is being activated"? I need soemthing like the java keyword this

Thanks for anywone who knows more about KDE than me. I tried checking out KDE.org but they didn't seem to have anything on Advanced User tips that I could find.

Files dropped on an executable are passed to it as command-line parameters. There is no need to change the file associations on Perl scripts. Just change the permissions on the scripts to make them executable, make sure they start with the requisite #! line, and you should be all set.

That's what I thought, but it doesn't work (nothing happens). ahhh, just figured it out. I just had to have the /usr/bin/perl right clicking on my perl script, and clicking on Properties, and then clicking on the wrench icon for Type, and then under Application Preference order, adding Perl, clicking on Edit, then going to Application and under Command. Now it works perfectly. Thanks for the info!