Hi James thanks for the reply. Just trying it I actually can't even get it 
to work with a batch file ("The filename, directory name, or volume label 
syntax is incorrect"). This doesn't matter however because I also now 
realize that .hta will use internet explorer to run the app, which means 
unfortunately I can't use this for my wiki anyway.

On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 20:09:25 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote:

> Just tested and unfortunately not right now.
>
> I have a few places where i call 
> WshShell.Run( "cmd /c " + path + " " + args ); From a quick google making 
> the "cmd /c" part call "powershell -File " maybe with some other settings 
> like -executionpolicy unrestricted.
>
> I know next to nothing about powershell though.
>
> if you take a look at 
> http://welford.github.io/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fwelford%2Ftwexe%2Ftwexe.js
> specifically 
> TWExeWidget.prototype.runTiddler = function (event) {
> TWExeWidget.prototype.openFile = function (event) {
>
> and can give me a working string format for  powershell scripts i can 
> update the plugin to provide the shell in which it will run via a field. 
> e.g. twexe_shell: powershell, so that we can support both.
>
>
>
> On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 19:18:45 UTC+1 Si wrote:
>
>> Thanks James I did not know this existed! I was looking for something 
>> similar a while ago.
>>
>> Can you use it to run PowerShell scripts?
>> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 13:31:27 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Incase any windows/hta users still use this:
>>>
>>> I've updated this plugin. the source is here: 
>>> https://github.com/welford/twexe and you can grab a copy of the updated 
>>> plugin from http://welford.github.io/
>>>
>>> The big change is that you can run the contents of a tiddler as a batch 
>>> file, which should help keep things portable (between machines / 
>>> environments, not cross platform). 
>>>
>>> It will create a temporary twexe.bat file in %TEMP% fill it with the 
>>> contents of the tiddler and then run it. You can change the default 
>>> temporary location via  $:/plugins/welford/twexe/tmpdir
>>>
>>> in the attached image i have two examples, one will run my local node.js 
>>> tw, the other just an example batch file that prints hello and the first 
>>> arg passed to it.
>>>
>>>

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