Hi Graham,
As you [and I] now know,"start" is a non-trivial command - it has lots of
choices you can make in running it. To see them all, enter this at a Windows
command prompt:
start /?
Or you can see them in a LC window using my 'Shell Command Help' plugin,
available in RevOnline.
Best -
Phil
On 5/12/11 8:01 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Mark, thanks - your suggestion means that the example in the docs is just plain wrong
(not enough quotes - apparently you need an empty set of quotes before the one with the
program name). But I doubt if this will solve the problem of a program name with a space
in it. So I still want to know what 'shell' expects. Also, what if the .exe isn't in
"Program Files"? It looks as if the 'start' function makes some assumptions
about the path to the program. It is hard to step out of the LC environment without
learning a lot of other stuff...
I will do a few tests and then at least add a comment on the 'launch'
dictionary entry - but I am scared of my own ignorance on this subject.
Graham
On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:16:42 +0200, Mark
Schonewille<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
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Graham,
Try this:
set the hideConsoleWindows to true
put "start"&& quote& quote&& quote& "myProgram.exe"& quote into myShell
get shell(myShell)
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On 12 mei 2011, at 12:03, 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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