Hey Si, I don't think it's true that you need Internet Explorer for any of
this, it's runs under the mshta.exe which should ship with windows. I
certainly don't have IE installed on my system - but you will need windows.
I don't knoe if this is still needed but i have another plugin
$:/plugins/welford/htalink/link.js which makes the wiki open links in the
default browser.
if you are still interested i can maybe help look at any issues you are
hitting: Excuse the crude picture but setting up a twexe should be pretty
simple. this one opens calc and then is linked to twice in another doc,
first as it is and then a second time with overridden params.
[image: asdf.png]
On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 16:17:21 UTC+1 Si wrote:
> 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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