What does Windows 'shell' expect?

[Mark Schonewille]

Graham,

Try this:

set the hideConsoleWindows to true
put "start" && quote & quote && quote & "myProgram.exe" & quote into myShell
get shell(myShell)

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On 12 mei 2011, at 12:03, Graham Samuel wrote:

> Following the instructions for "launch" in the LC docs, I tried the substitute method suggested:
> 
> get shell("start MyProgram.exe")
> 
> this didn't work using the name of the program in Windows Explorer, presumably because there was a space in the name.
> 
> I also tried to get a path to the program, which was reported by LC as 
> 
> C:/Program Files/My Tests/My Test.exe
> 
> and this failed too, with Windows reporting that it couldn't find "Program". So shell doesn't like spaces. I thought that one could get rid of that by replacing space with "%20" but that didn't work either.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but what should I have done?
> 
> Graham