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Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but my new found knowledge makes me doubt it can do what I want
> it to do.
> 
> I write my assembler programs in BBC basic inside StrongED. I save
> the file. I don't usually run the program by double clicking because
> if it goes wrong there is nothing you can do to investigate why. My
> new code usually goes wrong several time and has to be debugged
> before it runs properly. 
> 
> So I have another program of mine which sits on the icon bar and I
> drop the Basic prog on to that. This opens the Basic environment and
> loads my new code into it. I now work old style in Basic to get the
> bugs out. at some point i hit F12 which saves the resultant machine
> code.
> 
> I then quit Basic and return to the desktop.
> 
> So as my Basic assemble code has not been 'run' from the filer but
> within Basic the path will not have been set and indeed that's what
> I'm seeing.

I can think of a couple of routes to doing what you want:

1. Have your desktop program run the command of '*Basic -load $.MyProg'
Then it starts Basic with the file loaded but not run.
Use OS_GetEnv to get the command and parse out the filename.

2. Have your desktop program set a system variable MyLoader$Filename to be
the name of the Basic prog, then SAVE "<MyLoader$Filename>"
(or read the sysvar to a Basic string first)

I'm not sure how your 'hit F12' save works, but perhaps you could 
*Key 12 SAVE "<MyLoader$Filename>"

Theo

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