.exe file parameters

[ibwalkn]

Is it possible to pass parameters to the command line for a compiled macro? If so, what's the way to add a short cut to the desktop or elsewhere to run it with parameters on Windows 7? Also, can a compiled macro .exe file be run with the screen locked?

[JRL]

Is it possible to pass parameters to the command line for a compiled macro?

If you were to create a simple script with the one line:

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MDL>Parameter_1

Compile the script as Report_Param.exe

Then from a command line run:

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Report_Param.exe /Parameter_1="Some message to be displayed"

You would effectively pass a parameter to the executable. This particular executable will display a message that shows the content of the parameter. Of course you need to either start in the folder that contains the executable or fully path it on the command line.

Also, can a compiled macro .exe file be run with the screen locked?

Any executable can be run while the screen is locked. However if the executable performs interaction with the screen, none of that interaction will take place. The sample script I just suggested above will run, but the message will not display. If on the other hand we added a line that did a WriteLn> of the parameter value to a file, you would find that the file would exist and would contain the passed parameter value.

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WriteLn>%temp_dir%Record_Param.txt,wres,Parameter_1

[Jerry Thomas]

I am having a rough Monday here...

Report_Param is the single line of code just as JRL suggested:

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MDL>Parameter_1

Running "Report_Param.exe" by itself runs fine and displays "Parameter_1" as expected.

But when I run

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Report_Param.exe /Parameter_1="some text"

"Windows cannot find c:\Users...\Report_Param.exe /Parameter1="some text". Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again.

Suggestions?

[hoangvo81]

in your code:

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MDL>Parameter_1
MDL>Parameter_2

make the exe
and run command

Report_param.exe /Parameter_1=TEST1 /Parameter_2=TEST2

This works fine like JRL showned

you are assigning the values to the array makes sure in your code its the same array/variable name.

"Windows cannot find c:\Users...\Report_Param.exe /Parameter1="some text". Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again.

your run command shows Parameter1, which is not the same as Parameter_1

[CyberCitizen]

"Windows cannot find c:\Users...\Report_Param.exe /Parameter1="some text". Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again.

Suggestions?

"c:\Users...\Report_Param.exe" /Parameter_1="some text"

[Jerry Thomas]

Good catch hoangvo81 - in my code they are the same - this was something I messed up copying / pasting

Cyber, I have tried quotes in every possible place/combination


I would have sworn I tried this yesterday but I just found that,
RUN>Report_param.exe /Parameter_1=TEST1 works

But EXE>Report_param.exe only works with NO parameters


Thanks for help!