Run and external command help

[brian873]

Hi, I am new to the wonders of autoIT and after two days of searching through the forums I need help! Im stuck and digging a deepr hole for myself by the hour.

I have a small script I wrote that lists all the powerpoint files in a folder through a gui and then should pass on the selected file to a command that it will run with the external pptview application.

I can get the script to work if I manually type the file name. with the two methods below but I am stuck on how to pass the variable to the command line. I have tried numerous ways and now I feel I am going round in circles.

Run('pptview.exe /s copy of presentaion1.ppt', @scriptdir)

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'pptview.exe /s "copy of presentation1.ppt"', "", @SW_HIDE)

I would imagine it to be something like

Run('pptview.exe /s & $SelctedFile, @scriptdir)

But I cant get it to work.!!!!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

brian

[brian873]

Hi hubertus, thanks for the reply.

Yes this works fine for files with no spaces in the name

ShellExecute('pptview.exe', "/s " & $s_text)

I never made clear in my last post that I need it to be able to handle file names with spaces ect (copy of presentation1.ppt)

Thanks again

[brian873]

I have manage to complete what I want but I have to write the vairable to a txt file and use a batch command to run it using

FileWrite($file,$s_text)

FileClose($file)

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'play.bat', "", @SW_HIDE)

I woudl love for AutoIT to be able to complete all this internally. Anyone?

[lordofthestrings]

how about

$var_to_evaluate = "test test123"
if stringinstr($var_to_evaluate," ") then
    $var_to_evaluate = '"' & $var_to_evaluate & '"'
Else
    $var_to_evaluate = $var_to_evaluate
EndIf

[PsaltyDS]

Hi hubertus, thanks for the reply.

Yes this works fine for files with no spaces in the name

ShellExecute('pptview.exe', "/s " & $s_text)

I never made clear in my last post that I need it to be able to handle file names with spaces ect (copy of presentation1.ppt)

Thanks again

Use single quotes to include double quotes as part of the string:

$s_text = 'copy of presentaion1.ppt'
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Edited May 15, 2007 by PsaltyDS

[brian873]

Thanks Lord of the strings. I have played about with that code but I am unsure what it is meant to do for me, can you explain to a auto it newbie.

thanks

[brian873]

Many Thanks to Hubertus72 & PsaltyDS

I have go it working now without external batch files !

This is the part that had me stuck...

Use single quotes to include double quotes as part of the string:

Thanks again

brian

[PsaltyDS]

This is the part that had me stuck...

Use single quotes to include double quotes as part of the string:

Just for completeness, I'll mention another good fix: FileGetShortName()

Returns the 8.3 format short name of the file that can use without double quotes:

$s_file = FileGetShortName(@ScriptDir & '\copy of presentaion1.ppt')
ShellExecute('pptview.exe', ' /s ' & $s_file) ; no double quotes needed

[Shevilie]

You couls actually do this

ShellExecute("pptview.exe", " /s ""ttt ttt.ppt""")

[PsaltyDS]

Where'd you find the :ninja; smiley? That's cool, and it doesn't come up in my smiley list in the forum editor...

[lordofthestrings]

$var_to_evaluate = "test test123"           ; var to evaluate, put space in it or not.
if stringinstr($var_to_evaluate," ") then       ; if in the string variable you find a space
    $var_to_evaluate = '"' & $var_to_evaluate & '"' ; enclose var to evaluate with double quotes
Else                            ; otherwise
    $var_to_evaluate = $var_to_evaluate         ; leave variable intact
EndIf                           ; end conditional statement.

sorry for late reply.

hope this code does what you need..

Edited May 21, 2007 by lordofthestrings