looks like we do still use htalink, i probably should just fold it into
twexe
On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 17:40:08 UTC+1 James Anderson wrote:
> 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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