Graham, Try this:
set the hideConsoleWindows to true put "start" && quote & quote && quote & "myProgram.exe" & quote into myShell get shell(myShell) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce 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 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
