Hey Si, I don't think it's true that you need Internet Explorer for any of this, it's runs under the mshta.exe which should ship with windows. I certainly don't have IE installed on my system - but you will need windows.
I don't knoe if this is still needed but i have another plugin $:/plugins/welford/htalink/link.js which makes the wiki open links in the default browser. if you are still interested i can maybe help look at any issues you are hitting: Excuse the crude picture but setting up a twexe should be pretty simple. this one opens calc and then is linked to twice in another doc, first as it is and then a second time with overridden params. [image: asdf.png] On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 16:17:21 UTC+1 Si wrote: > Hi James thanks for the reply. Just trying it I actually can't even get it > to work with a batch file ("The filename, directory name, or volume label > syntax is incorrect"). This doesn't matter however because I also now > realize that .hta will use internet explorer to run the app, which means > unfortunately I can't use this for my wiki anyway. > > On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 20:09:25 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote: > >> Just tested and unfortunately not right now. >> >> I have a few places where i call >> WshShell.Run( "cmd /c " + path + " " + args ); From a quick google making >> the "cmd /c" part call "powershell -File " maybe with some other settings >> like -executionpolicy unrestricted. >> >> I know next to nothing about powershell though. >> >> if you take a look at >> http://welford.github.io/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fwelford%2Ftwexe%2Ftwexe.js >> specifically >> TWExeWidget.prototype.runTiddler = function (event) { >> TWExeWidget.prototype.openFile = function (event) { >> >> and can give me a working string format for powershell scripts i can >> update the plugin to provide the shell in which it will run via a field. >> e.g. twexe_shell: powershell, so that we can support both. >> >> >> >> On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 19:18:45 UTC+1 Si wrote: >> >>> Thanks James I did not know this existed! I was looking for something >>> similar a while ago. >>> >>> Can you use it to run PowerShell scripts? >>> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 13:31:27 UTC+1 james.w....@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> Incase any windows/hta users still use this: >>>> >>>> I've updated this plugin. the source is here: >>>> https://github.com/welford/twexe and you can grab a copy of the >>>> updated plugin from http://welford.github.io/ >>>> >>>> The big change is that you can run the contents of a tiddler as a batch >>>> file, which should help keep things portable (between machines / >>>> environments, not cross platform). >>>> >>>> It will create a temporary twexe.bat file in %TEMP% fill it with the >>>> contents of the tiddler and then run it. You can change the default >>>> temporary location via $:/plugins/welford/twexe/tmpdir >>>> >>>> in the attached image i have two examples, one will run my local >>>> node.js tw, the other just an example batch file that prints hello and the >>>> first arg passed to it. >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9d492d4d-1f5d-4860-9080-fb4725764177n%40googlegroups.com.