What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Launch the standalone version specifying a filename to load at the end 2. Pencil opens and shows the filename in the title bar 3. Nothing loads

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Expect the file to load, it doesn't

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 1.0.4 standalone on windows

Please provide any additional information below.

This is irritating as I want to create an association to open ep and epz files directly in pencil

Technical details:

The problem lies in Pencil.boot() (Pensil.js). This function invokes Pencil.postBoot() (MainWindow.js).

Pencil.postBoot() reads command line parameters and uses a timeout (100ms) to open the specified document.

However, after that Pencil.boot() uses a timeout to create a new empty document using a timeout (500ms).

As a result the command line specified document is opened but a new document is created afterwards. Since it all happens very fast, the user won't notice.

Another problem is when opening a document from command line when a Pencil window is already open. It seems Xulrunner now also passes "-app", "application.ini" and "-console" (no clue why), and this ends up in the file path being loaded. Of course this won't load a document.

I have fixed this in http://code.google.com/p/evoluspencil/issues/detail?id=215. I had the same issue on OS X and actually, I never saw any code to load a document based on command line arguments so I just created my own attempt and it works.