RunWait error

[Radsam]

The wierdest thing happened to me. I am getting an error message when I use the command:

Runwait(@ComSpec & " /c Start " & "http://google.com", "", @SW_HIDE)

Error message:

http://google.com

Application not found

The command works on another my work laptop but not on my home PC. Anyone have any ideas? I'm desperate!! I use this type of code all the time, what gives?!

Radsam

[buzz44]

What OS is your laptop? Mabye you need to have "www" in there.

Runwait(@ComSpec & " /c Start " & "http://www.google.com", "", @SW_HIDE)

[Radsam]

Doesn't matter.

I try doing it manually from cmd promt and I get the following error:

C:\>%comspec% /c start http://www.google.com

Access is denied.

HELP!!

[Xavier]

Doesn't matter.

I try doing it manually from cmd promt and I get the following error:

HELP!!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hello,

Have you tried this? Hope you have IE (if no , you may change the target exe file)

Runwait(@ComSpec & " /c Start iexplore http://google.com", "", @SW_HIDE)

[BigDaddyO]

have you tried from a command prompt to simply type Start you should get a description of the Start command. if you get an error then your Pathing is messed up on your computer.

[Radsam]

That works! Why do I need "iexplore" there now. I don't use it on my work laptop?

[Xavier]

That works! Why do I need "iexplore" there now. I don't use it on my work laptop?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, It might be caused if you use a Proxy Server

In my corporate environnement, if i ommit iexplore, i am requested to log on the proxy server whereas in the other case it is fully fonctionnal.

[Scottswan]

A simple way to launch a URL in the default browser in any Windows OS...

; Launch default browser (Have yet to find a better way!).

Send("#r")

Sleep(500)

Send("http://www.google.com{enter}")

-Scott

[buzz44]

You can retrieve the default browser from the reg key...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\https\shell\open\command

Example.

$Url = "http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?"
$OpenUrl = RegRead ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\https\shell\open\command", ""); Get the Internet browser path
$PosParam    = StringInStr ($OpenUrl, "%")      ; Parameter location (%l)
$OpenUrlLeft  = StringLeft  ($OpenUrl, $PosParam-1); Left handside of the path
$OpenUrlRight = StringMid   ($OpenUrl, $PosParam+2,999); Right handside of the path
Run ($OpenUrlLeft & $url & $OpenUrlRight)

Edited April 21, 2005 by Burrup

[MHz]

You can retrieve the default browser from the reg key...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\https\shell\open\command

FYI

I do not have this key on XP Pro.

Edit: Correction: Had another browse and found it. Sorry, false alert. :">

Edited April 21, 2005 by MHz

[buzz44]

Yeah I know what you mean. It's got like 2 sets of alphabetical order like it goes.

a

b

c

d etc then

a

b

c

d

And its in the 2nd set of alphabet things . Its not the only place you can find it but, I just choose that one because I'm used to it.

Edited April 21, 2005 by Burrup

[Radsam]

Thanks to all for the help. It ended up being registry values pointing to FireFox which I uninstalled a while ago.

I had to change everyting to point to IE.

Radsam

[Guest mestrini]

Thanks to all for the help. It ended up being registry values pointing to FireFox which I uninstalled a while ago.

I had to change everyting to point to IE.

Radsam

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi,

first post here

addicted to autoit since i found out about it and after losing many hours reading old posts (no need to make any request yet ) i think a little help may come in handy.

note that the following code is not mine but can't remember from which post i got it so i just apologise in advance to its creator for not giving him credits for it

If @OSTYPE = "WIN32_NT" Then; for NT based systems
            Run(@ComSpec & ' /c start "title" ' & $url1, '', @SW_HIDE)
             ElseIf @OSTYPE = "WIN32_WINDOWS" Then; for 9x systems
            Run(@ComSpec & ' /c start ' & $url1, '', @SW_HIDE)
           EndIf

With this code i managed to have a web browser opened upon clicking on a label. The good part is that it works both in my laptop (iexplorer) and in my desktop (firefox)

the var $url1 can be changed for an actual URL

hope it helps someone

cheers and many thanks to this great friendly community (and Jon above all )

yes, i like to use smilies a lot

Edited April 23, 2005 by mestrini