Executable not behaving correctly when launched using shell on Windows

[Trevor DeVore]

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 12:09  PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>
>> The code I use to open the app from the installer is:
>> put shortFilePath (pFilePath) into pFilePath
>> set hideConsoleWindows to true
>> put shell ("start" && pFilePath) into tError
>>
>> Has anyone encountered something similar and know of a solution?
>
> You might be missing a title parameter in your shell string.  Try:
>
>   put empty into tTitle
>   put shell ("start" && tTitle && quote & pFilePath & quote) into 
> tError

That didn't solve it but it made me look at the help for the start 
command which I hadn't thought to do. :)

The way to get it to work is to pass the working directory with the /D 
paramter.

shell /D PathToWorkingDir programName.exe

Thanks,

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com