By the way I am doing this via a search rather than alias because I want to use the q vaule as the commandline switches as shutdown.exe has about 10 switches or so.
JB > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:37 PM > To: Dave's Quick Search Developers > Subject: [DQSD-Devel] a little help please > > Hey guys I am toying with a search (sdn.xml) that uses the > shutdown.exe that comes with XP. It should NOT work with the one > that comes in the W2K development pack. The one that comes with > W2K dev pack has nicer interface but I am making the assumption > regarding Uncle Billy's crew that they use a different > shutdown.exe in XP for at least 1 good reason. I have put the XP > shutdown.exe on my work W2K workstation without any problems. > But if anyone wants to use this search to quickly shutdown, > reboot, sleep or hibernate their PC, I can give them the > shutdown.exe (or you can get it from any PC running XP). > > However I do not know how to run the commandline call from within > javascript. So at first attempt I am trying to > setSearchWindowText to the appropriate run command. But then I > can't get dqsd to simulate the <enter> key press. Here is the > code. Any helpers? The descriptions and commandline switches > (DOS prompt shutdown /?) need implemented and documented yet. > But currently I am testing it with the -i switch as that brings > up a GUI which can be cancelled. > > <search function="sdn"> > <name>Shutdown</name> > <description> > Shutdown a PC.<br/> > <div class="helpboxDescLabels">Examples:</div> > <table class="helpboxDescTable"> > <tr><td>sdn i Shutdown with GUI</td></tr> > <tr><td> </td></tr> > <tr><td> </td></tr> > </table> > </description> > <category>Functions</category> > <link></link> > <contributor>john_at_bairen_dot_net</contributor> > > <script><![CDATA[ > function sdn(q) > { > if( nullArgs( "sdn", q ) ) return false; > > setSearchWindowText("run shutdown -"+q); > document.deff.submit(); > > } > ]]></script> > > <copyright> > Copyright (c) 2002 David Bau > Distributed under the terms of the > GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt) > </copyright> > </search> > > > > > Thanks, > JB > > > John W. Bairen, Jr. > www.bairen.net >
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