Windows Picture Viewer As Exe

[gazrat]

Hi,

I'm looking to use AutoIt to create an .exe which will open Windows XP Picture viewer with a graphics file.

Eg, pictureview.exe graphic.tif

pictureview.exe graphic.bmp

The problem I'm having is the command within Windows XP to launch Picture Viewer with an argument is

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

I can get AutoIt to launch a blank Picture Viewer using

Run ( 'rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen' )

I can't figure out how to pass the argument %1 through to AutoIt so that the graphic file specified after the .exe opens.

When I use

Run ( 'rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1' )

nothing happens. No Picture Viewer at all.

Anyone got any ideas ? I'm hoping that it can actually be done with AutoIt but I'm not sure if the way Windows use the Picture Viewer allows it.

Help.....

[CyberSlug]

Try something like:

If $CmdLine[0] = 0 Then Exit;because no command-line params
Run ( 'rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen ' & $CmdLine[1] )

From the help file:

The special array $CmdLine is initialized with the command line parameters passed in to your AutoIt script.  Note the scriptname is not classed as a parameter; get this information with @ScriptName instead.  A parameter that contains spaces must be surrounded by "double quotes".  Compiled scripts accept command line parameters in the same way.

$CmdLine[0]is number of parameters

$CmdLine[1] is param 1 (after the script name)

$CmdLine[2] is param 2 etc

Hope that helps!

[gazrat]

Perfect !

Thanks, Much Appreciated...