variable as input to run command

[whitta]

Hi,

I think that I should be able to do this:

Dim $ProgramName = "Notepad.exe"

run($ProgramName, "c:\Windows\")

Am I way off? I get an error that says that seems to indicate that Notepad.exe did not replae $ProgramName.

Could not find a reference to variables in calls to functions. Probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks for your help.

Tim

[Valuater]

that worked on my win xp ( autoit 3.2 )

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[whitta]

Thanks for the check, Valuater.

I did not want to run Notepad, but another program. I finally got it to work if the directory to the program is included in the XP path environment variable.

Should have checked some more before wasting bandwidth.

Thanks again.

Tim

[blademonkey]

Hi,

I think that I should be able to do this:

Dim $ProgramName = "Notepad.exe"

run($ProgramName, "c:\Windows\")

Am I way off? I get an error that says that seems to indicate that Notepad.exe did not replae $ProgramName.

Could not find a reference to variables in calls to functions. Probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks for your help.

Tim

That works for me too, but maybe your windows folder is called something else, it would be safer to use

@windowsdir instead of "c:\windows\"

so try this

Dim $ProgramName = "Notepad.exe"

run($ProgramName, @windowsdir)