Arguments lost for assigned extension

do you use the bat files or the native launcher? If the bat files... what made you to let groovy programs being executed by them?

I'm not sure I understand the question. If I type "groovy test.groovy x y z" or "groovy.bat test.groovy x y z", then
test.groovy runs and gets the 3 arguments. If I just type "test.groovy x y z", then again test.groovy runs but it
doesn't get the arguments. I don't know what the "native launcher" is and I don't understand your second
question.

You said "I assigned groovy.bat to the .groovy extension." How did you do that? Maybe you did that wrong?

1) I am running the 64 bit version of Java.
2) I attached %GROOVY_HOME%groovy.bat/bin/groovy.bat" to the .groovy extendsion by right-clicking test.groovy
and selecting "run with". I downloaded groovy-binary-1.6.4.zip and unziping it. There is no .exe file there. Only
.bat files. Did I get the wrong download file?

no, I was just a bit confused. Still... if you do run-with I think that this uses only one argument. In case of your .groovy file, the file itself is the argument to the bat file already, so further arguments are ignored. In windows bat file logic this would be %1 where %* is needed. So you have to fix that, I think you have no choice but to change the registry entry for this.

Thanks for the tip. It took considerable work and the writing of a special
intermediate .bat
file to run the groovy script but I edited the registry and I can now type
"test1 xxx yyy zzz" and have test1 get the 3 arguments. Phew! Thanks for the
help.

Steve

So is there anything left for this issue. Do we need to document the correct way to do this? Or nothing to do?

I think documenting the correct way to do this would be a very good idea since it isn't obvious - at least it wasn't to me. Thanks.

Steved

Is that something you feel up to doing? (Confluence is user editable)
Or can you throw a few quick notes into a comment for this issue?