Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
Starting a program:
var shell = new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell");
shell.Run("notepad.exe");

(Will start notepad.exe)

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How would you start an application not in the default windows directory, like iTunes, XFire, FireFox, etc.?

i'm not completely sure because i usually use CreateProcess but what happens if you go like.

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var shell = new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell");
shell.Run("../aa.exe");

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would aa.exe run (place it in the directory above the default one, usually just C:/)

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Originally posted by tobias
How would you start an application not in the default windows directory, like iTunes, XFire, FireFox, etc.?

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code:

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function _start_app(_path){
    new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell').run(_path);
}

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Usage:

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_start_app('C:\\Program Files\\iTunes\\iTunes.exe');

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Thank you. Now to get to work!

EDIT: Not working, from what I can see.


function _start_app(_path){
    new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell').run(_path);
}
function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWind,Message)
{

(There are some if statements and things here)

            if(Message=="!photoshop"){
                MsgPlus.DisplayToast("Photoshop", aMessage);
                _start_app("c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop CS\\Photoshop.exe");
            }
}

And it shows the taost, but doesn't launch the program, and most of the time it doesn't show up in the chat window if it starts with !, but this time it does.

P.S. I know you don't like people using ! commands, but I can't figure out how to get my commands on the / list.

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Originally posted by tobias
P.S. I know you don't like people using ! commands, but I can't figure out how to get my commands on the / list.

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code:

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function OnGetScriptCommands(){

    var ScriptCommands = '<ScriptCommands>';

         ScriptCommands += '<Command>';
         ScriptCommands += '<Name>purple</Name>';
         ScriptCommands += '<Description>Makes the window purple</Description>';
         ScriptCommands += '</Command>';

         ScriptCommands += '<Command>';
         ScriptCommands += '<Name>green</Name>';
         ScriptCommands += '<Description>Makes the window green</Description>';
         ScriptCommands += '</Command>';

    ScriptCommands  += '</ScriptCommands>';

              return ScriptCommands;
}

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Thanks, I'll add that now.
Now does anyone have any ideas as to my first problem?

does the debugger give an error?

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Originally posted by tobias

Now does anyone have any ideas as to my first problem?

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The problem is the spaces in the path. I don't know what to replace it with though. I've tried %20 but that didn't work.

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Originally posted by hmaster

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Originally posted by tobias

Now does anyone have any ideas as to my first problem?

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The problem is the spaces in the path. I don't know what to replace it with though. I've tried %20 but that didn't work.

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you do what you normally would with a path containing spaces, put quotes around it. Which means you can either do this:

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new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell").Run("\"C:\\Path Containing Spaces\"");

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or to simplify things, use single quotes instead of double quotes for the string:

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new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell").Run('"C:\\Path Containing Spaces"');

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edit: added red highlighting to show double quotes on second example.
edit 2: updated matty's function to support paths containing spaces:

code:

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function _start_app(_path){
    new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell').run('"' + _path + '"');
}

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Thanks for that .