×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS

Contact US

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you a
Computer / IT professional?
Join Tek-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!

*Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Send Event with Parameters

Send Event with Parameters

Send Event with Parameters

(OP)
Hi,

I'm trying to call a compiled macro with SendEvent (I'm using FMP 7.0).

I read on another forum to store four doublequotes in a field called QMK, store the path and macro name in another field and then call it this way:

"cmd /c " & QMK & macroname & QMK

This works fine. It calls my macro successfully.

However...now I want to call the macro with a parameter. So if I were running it from the windows command line, I'd put:
mymacro.exe "close"

So my question is, how do I call it from the SendEvent script command but also pass it the "close" parameter?

I've tried different things, but FMP seems to think I'm trying to call a program called "mymacro.exe close" instead of calling mymacro.exe with the "close" parameter. The macro never gets called.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA, Susie

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Tek-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Tek-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Tek-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Tek-Tips and talk with other members! Already a Member? Login

Close Box

Join Tek-Tips® Today!

Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical computer professional community.
It's easy to join and it's free.

Here's Why Members Love Tek-Tips Forums:

Register now while it's still free!

Already a member? Close this window and log in.

Join Us             Close