Try "my\ spacious\ program.exe" On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote:
> Again thanks to all who replied. I'm trying to do the things that Mike and > Ken have suggested, but meanwhile for Björnke, I am not sure what escape > involves in Windows - I assume there is an escape character or character > pair... and as to quoting in file names, where Mike had > > "firefox.exe" > > (including the quotes) > > I tried "My spacious program.exe" since I couldn't see how to introduce a > further level of quotes. > > As I said, I don't know much about Windows. > > Am trying other suggestions and will report back. > > Graham > > On Sun, 22 May 2011 19:55:05 +0200 Bj?rnke von Gierke <b...@mac.com> wrote: > > > you need to quote or escape spaces. That was suggested and people > succesfully tested it on their own setup. > > > > What exactly did you try to quote the filenames, or escape the spaces? > > > > On 22 May 2011, at 19:51, Graham Samuel wrote: > > > >> Excuse me for repeating myself, but I put the essentials of this message > to the list already under another subject heading - this one reflects what > I'm really trying to find out. > >> > >> Mike Bonner has been helping me on this list with a little VB script > that launches a Windows program from within a LiveCode standalone cleverly > enough to avoid multiple instances. As an example, he wrote a script that > launches Firefox. One of the lines looked like this: > >> > >> WshShell.Run "firefox.exe" > >> > >> I was able to make this work, and to show that it works with **any** > program on the PC that doesn't have a space in its name - you just have to > replace 'firefox' with the new program name. But it doesn't work if the name > contains a space, and I have to invoke just such a program. This prog > already has thousands of users, so I can't change the name to avoid the > problem. > >> > >> The question is, what is happening when the launch fails, apart from a > VB error (to the effect that it can't find the file, but it doesn't tell me > the name of the file it can't find, which may be a clue). I just don't know > how to track down the error or how to avoid it - maybe I have to substitute > something for the space character, or maybe there is a shadow name that I > can't see... I am hoping a Windows / VB savvy person can help me. > >> > >> It would be helpful of course if I could see the process list in the PC > - then I could launch the prog from outside my LC app and just look at the > list to see what Windows calls it, but I don't know how to do that on XP > since 'tasklist' isn't recognised and I don't know how to display things > from a VB script. It's sad to be so ignorant, but the charm of LiveCode is > that you don't normally have to know this kind of stuff about your target > OS. > >> > >> Any help greatly appreciated. > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
