I found that the problem is actually with regedit and not .NET. I also found that there is a .NET class for editing registry keys (Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey) which is much cleaner than having external .reg files anyway.
Thanks for your help Dino! -Luke Hoersten On Jun 22, 11:22 am, Luke Hoersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only other thing I can think of is I'm giving regedit a reg key > that exists on my usb key. So actually the args = "f:\\some\\file\ > \key.reg". > > The exit code returns 0 every time. If I run my command and args > directly on the command line, it work fine as well. > > On Jun 22, 11:07 am, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately I'm not sure what could be going wrong here. This works for > > me on v1.x - I'm on Vista so I have to run from an admin command prompt > > (otherwise regedit doesn't find the file) but otherwise it just works - > > even if I use the code as you have it below. > > > Have you checked the ExitCode property of the process? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Hoersten > > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:47 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [IronPython] System.Diagnostics.Process.Start only uses first > > argument > > > I'm not including the quotes. Those are just the strings I'm using, > > similar to your example. I'm getting different results: Only the first > > argument being sent in that string is being processed. The other is > > being ignored. So either I get /s and no .reg file or I import > > the .reg file and it prompts me. I'm writing a script so obviously > > prompting is undesirable. > > > Here's my code: > > name = "c:\\Windows\\regedit.exe" > > args = "/s example.reg" > > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(name, args) > > > I've even tried waiting on the process to exit with WaitForExit() but > > that still does not work. > > > I've read on Google about a lot of people having this similar problem > > but people seem to give up before posting a solution. Any other ideas? > > > On Jun 22, 10:32 am, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > How exactly are you passing this? I assume the quotes aren't being > > > included? The 1st form below prompts me and the 2nd form doesn't prompt > > > (ignoring the UAC prompt on Vista of course which is a whole other ball > > > of wax), are you doing something different? > > > > >>> import System > > > >>> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start('regedit.exe', '"/s foo.reg"') > > > > <System.Diagnostics.Process object at 0x000000000000002B > > > [System.Diagnostics.Process (regedit)]>>>> > > > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start('regedit.exe', '/s foo.reg') > > > > <System.Diagnostics.Process object at 0x000000000000002C > > > [System.Diagnostics.Process (regedit)]> > > > > You could also check out the nt module where we have nt.popen (or os if > > > you have the CPython std lib installed) which takes a single command line > > > (exe + args) and we do the splitting for you - that'd also be compatible > > > w/ CPython. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke > > > Hoersten > > > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:07 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [IronPython] System.Diagnostics.Process.Start only uses first > > > argument > > > > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(app, args) should take a string of > > > arguments delimited by spaces for the second argument of start which > > > it will pass to app on stdin. I'm trying to run app = "regedit.exe" > > > and args ="/s key.reg" but it's only recognizing the first argument > > > (which is /s). If I remove /s, it runs the key but I want this to run > > > silently. > > > > I've also tried ProcessStartInfo() but it suffers from the same > > > problem. Does anyone have any more information on this or know how to > > > work around this? > > > > Thanks, > > > Luke > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
