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NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

Hi All,

on Windows 7 updating from 8.03 to 8.6.2 we have a problem passing an icx location with blanks in the path to nodialog.exe. Nodialog.exe will not find the icx. In 8.03 we started our icx with something like:

nodialog.exe -i "c:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\my.icx"

this doesn't work with version 8.6.2. It looks like the double quotes aren't allowed any more. Ommitiing the blanks will lead to the same error: Image not found. But how can we pass a path with blanks instead?

A quick help would be more than welcome!

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Wayne Johnston

Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

This is essentially how we had fixed it for a certain time - but see the warning.

shortPathFor: longPath

"Windows only - to make into '8.3' notation as needed for some things.

Note some OSs at least optionally disable short paths. This means this

API will answer the original path with spaces. Therefore this method should probably

remain unused since we have to handle paths with spaces everywhere.

self shortPathFor: 'c:\program files'.

self shortPathFor: '\a b\c d\e f\g h' "

| shortPath shortPathLength |

shortPath := String new: longPath size * 3. "since as in the last example the answer can be much longer than longPath"

shortPathLength :=

OSCall new getShortPathName: longPath lpszShortPath: shortPath cchBuffer: shortPath size.

^shortPath

copyFrom: 1

to: shortPathLength

Wayne Johnston

Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

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Sorry, I should have said we had used that method but for a different purpose - specifically directing DB2 to some files. The final fix was to double quote the paths. However you are already double quoting the path but it's not working. Therefore you could try the method I sent, but as the warning says, it may not work on all installations.

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Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

Thanks for your quick response!

Additional info: We use a Windows cmd file. And in the file we call nodialog.exe.

Am Montag, 8. August 2016 15:55:44 UTC+2 schrieb Wayne Johnston:

Sorry, I should have said we had used that method but for a different purpose - specifically directing DB2 to some files. The final fix was to double quote the paths. However you are already double quoting the path but it's not working. Therefore you could try the method I sent, but as the warning says, it may not work on all installations.

jtuchel

Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

This may not be the perfect solution, but maybe you can try putting the path into a shell variable and concatenate in the line where you call nodialog.exe.

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Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

That's exactly the way we did it with 8.03 but does not work in 8.6.2:

@NoDialog.Exe -i "%abt_ImagePath%\%1.icx" %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Klaus Breker-2

Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

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Hi,

dio you tried this image start with a development image and inspected the call of System commandLine?

Kind regards

Klaus

Am Montag, 8. August 2016 15:26:45 UTC+2 schrieb bonndias:

Hi All,

on Windows 7 updating from 8.03 to 8.6.2 we have a problem passing an icx location with blanks in the path to nodialog.exe. Nodialog.exe will not find the icx. In 8.03 we started our icx with something like:

nodialog.exe -i "c:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\my.icx"

this doesn't work with version 8.6.2. It looks like the double quotes aren't allowed any more. Ommitiing the blanks will lead to the same error: Image not found. But how can we pass a path with blanks instead?

A quick help would be more than welcome!

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Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

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Meanwhile I think it's a bug. I could solve the problem by changing the path from absolute to relative path. Now the call looks like this:

nodialog.exe -i.\MyApplication\%1.icx %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Thanks

Seth Berman

Re: NoDialog.Exe howTo pass an image with Blanks in the path

Hello,

We have not changed anything in this area.

I think the issue is that you need to put the quote to the left of the '-i'.

And don't put a space between the -i and the c:

For example:

nodialog.exe "-ic:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\my.icx"

instead of

nodialog.exe -i "c:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\my.icx"

Hope this helps,

-- Seth

On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 5:16:56 AM UTC-4, bonndias wrote:

Meanwhile I think it's a bug. I could solve the problem by changing the path from absolute to relative path. Now the call looks like this:

nodialog.exe -i.\MyApplication\%1.icx %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Thanks