*push* Anyone who could help me here?
> Hello, > > I did some work on this problem I have with command line arguments: > >>>>> 3) >>>>> One remaining problem is that command line arguments are >>>>> automatically escaped via " if they contain spaces. Now it is >>>>> possible that a to be compiled booklet has a space in it so the >>>>> appropriate command line would look like this: helpstudio2.exe >>>>> /bk="just a test" projectfile.hsp Unfortunately, when I pass the >>>>> option as /bk=just a test it gets converted to "/bk=just a test" >>>>> or /bk="just a test" gets converted to '/bk="just a test"' and >>>>> HelpStudio doesn´t recognize these. >>>> >>>> Who is escaping? Or is it just inside the debug log? >> >> Hello to the wacky world of command line args in windows. >> There are four levels of processing. >> 1) WIN32:CreateProcess this take in one string as a command line and >> splits into an executable and a list of command line arguments. - >> so it needs to handle " and ' to allow directories with spaces to >> be seen as one arg. 2) java.lang.ProcessImpl this "normalizes" an >> array of arguments into a single string, if an argument contains >> a space, the argument is quoted with a " (unless it is already >> "quoted"). 3) org.apache.tools.ant.types.CommandLine.quoteArgument() >> - this is only called on <arg line="a b c"/>, I think >> 4) the executable itself (or the C wrapper - in cygwin land). > > > Now, my task constructs the correct escaped String and when I use this > on the windows command line it works without problems. However, when I > use this... > > private static final String HS_CMD_LINE = "helpstudio2.exe"; > [...] > cmd.setExecutable(path + HS_CMD_LINE); > cmd.addArguments((String[]) lArgs.toArray(new > String[lArgs.size()])); > > > Output of cmd.toString(): > C:\Programme\Innovasys\HelpStudio2\bin\helpstudio2.exe /s > /bk="te st" "C:\1temp\helpstudioant\te st\test.hsp" > > ...HelpStudio throws an exception. This probably means, that /bk="te > st" was converted to '/bk="te st"' so HelpStudio thinks that the > project file is used twice. > > I´m in contact with Innovasys to see if they can change the way > command line arguments are used in HelpStudio. Though, I would like to > know if there is a way to solve this problem by myself or if there is > no such way. > > Any suggestions are welcome =) > > > Lars > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
