Calling an app using shell (With spaces in directory path) 1

[Bloobird]

Hi - I want to use the shell command to call an application, however the path to the app had a directory with 2 words seperated by spaces, which shell does not like. Is there a way of getting around this, other than using an environment variable ?

Thanks

 

[JustinEzequiel]

this might help

Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal lBuffer As Long) As Long
Public Function GetShortPath(strFileName As String) As String
    'KPD-Team 1999
    'URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.allapi.net/[/URL]
    'E-Mail: KPDTeam@Allapi.net
    Dim lngRes As Long, strPath As String
    'Create a buffer
    strPath = String$(165, 0)
    'retrieve the short pathname
    lngRes = GetShortPathName(strFileName, strPath, 164)
    'remove all unnecessary chr$(0)'s
    GetShortPath = Left$(strPath, lngRes)
End Function
Private Sub Form_Load()
    MsgBox GetShortPath("c:\Program Files\")
End Sub

 

[muesli]

Try looking at ShellExecute:
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd&, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd&)&

It takes separate parameters for the executable and the document file names.

 

[Bloobird]

Hi - Could you send me an example of a call to the ShellExecute command ?

Thanks

 

[Sawatzky]

dear bloobird


did you try

shell("""path/path upps/my.exe"" arguments&quot


does it work??

regards Astrid

 

[Bloobird]

Simple but effective - thanks Sawatzky !