Graham, in the form you used, Livecode passes the shell argument without the
quotes. To Livecode, the quotes are string delimiters, so to speak. Try:
put "start My Program.exe" into theWinApp
put quote before word 2 of theWinApp
put quote after word 2 of theWinApp
get shell(theWinApp)
You *could* try to embed the quotes in a single statement of course, but I find
that sort of thing "dirty" especially if I am the one who later on has to
figure out what the h*ll I was thinking.
Bob
On May 12, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Following the instructions for "launch" in the LC docs, I tried the
> substitute method suggested:
>
> get shell("start MyProgram.exe")
>
> this didn't work using the name of the program in Windows Explorer,
> presumably because there was a space in the name.
>
> I also tried to get a path to the program, which was reported by LC as
>
> C:/Program Files/My Tests/My Test.exe
>
> and this failed too, with Windows reporting that it couldn't find "Program".
> So shell doesn't like spaces. I thought that one could get rid of that by
> replacing space with "%20" but that didn't work either.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but what should I have done?
>
> Graham
>
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