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
