Error using WSH Run method with long path names

Using short paths it works but not with long paths, why?

Using Vlisp this doesn't work:
(setq WshShell (vlax-create-object "WScript.Shell"))
(vlax-invoke-method wshshell 'Run """C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Autodesk
Express Viewer\\ExpressViewer.exe"" C:\\New Folder\\Test.DWF" 3 :vlax-false)

On the other hand this works:
(vlax-invoke-method wshshell 'Run "calc.exe" 3)

or

(vlax-invoke-method wshshell 'Run
"C:/Progra~1/Autodesk/Autode~1/Expres~1.exe C:\\New Folder\\Test.DWF" 3
:vlax-false)

Using VBA it works:
Public Sub test()
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run """C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk Express
Viewer\ExpressViewer.exe"" ""C:\New Folder\Test.DWF""", 3, False
End Sub

--
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More on AutoCAD 2004;
www.jtbworld.com/autocad2004.htm
www.jtbworld.com/autocad2004tips.htm

 

Check your quotes:

(vlax-invoke-method
wshshell
'Run
"\"C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Autodesk Express
Viewer\\ExpressViewer.exe\" C:\\Temp\\Test.DWF"
3
:vlax-false)


Note that I wrapped the long filename in escaped quotes (\") and only a
single outer pair of quotes for the entire string.


--
R. Robert Bell, MCSE
www.AcadX.com


| Using short paths it works but not with long paths, why?
|
| Using Vlisp this doesn't work:
| (setq WshShell (vlax-create-object "WScript.Shell"))
| (vlax-invoke-method wshshell 'Run """C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Autodesk
| Express Viewer\\ExpressViewer.exe"" C:\\New Folder\\Test.DWF" 3
:vlax-false)
|
| On the other hand this works:
| (vlax-invoke-method wshshell 'Run "calc.exe" 3)
|
| or
|
| (vlax-invoke-method wshshell 'Run
| "C:/Progra~1/Autodesk/Autode~1/Expres~1.exe C:\\New Folder\\Test.DWF" 3
| :vlax-false)
|
| Using VBA it works:
| Public Sub test()
| Dim WshShell
| Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
| WshShell.Run """C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk Express
| Viewer\ExpressViewer.exe"" ""C:\New Folder\Test.DWF""", 3, False
| End Sub
|
| --
| Best Regards, Jimmy Bergmark
| CAD and Database Developer Manager at www.pharmadule-emtunga.com
| Take a look at the trial version of SmartPurger or
| download some freeware at www.jtbworld.com
| More on AutoCAD 2004;
| www.jtbworld.com/autocad2004.htm
| www.jtbworld.com/autocad2004tips.htm
|
|
|

 

Thanks for remembering me of \"

--
Best Regards, Jimmy Bergmark
CAD and Database Developer Manager at www.pharmadule-emtunga.com
Take a look at the trial version of SmartPurger or
download some freeware at www.jtbworld.com
More on AutoCAD 2004;
www.jtbworld.com/autocad2004.htm
www.jtbworld.com/autocad2004tips.htm

 

Glad to have helped.



| Thanks for remembering me of \"
|