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| Thread ID: 24326 | 2002-09-08 10:22:00 | Shortcuts to more than 1 app? | mellingham (1769) | Press F1 |
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| 77675 | 2002-09-08 10:22:00 | Is it possible to make a shortcut that will open more than one programat the same time? If so, what is the context of the shortcut path? I hope someone can help me here... Matt |
mellingham (1769) | ||
| 77676 | 2002-09-08 10:58:00 | Only way I know to do it would be to create a .bat file with the command lines for each program you wanted opened and have the shortcut point to the .bat file. | antmannz (28) | ||
| 77677 | 2002-09-08 11:00:00 | You could always try creating a batch file (*.bat). Edit a new txt doc in notepad you'll need to put in the command lines for both programs (Find it in both different shortcuts) and see if that works. Both will need to be on seperate lines. You might need a seperate code for file running but it should work just like that. Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 77678 | 2002-09-08 11:01:00 | Drat, Beat me too it, I knew I shouldn't have been typing in MSN... hehe | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 77679 | 2002-09-08 11:10:00 | I had started doing that...made 2 batch files for the apps as such: <<DW>> @ECHO OFF CD C:\Program Files CD Macromedia CD Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 UltraDev.exe @ECHO OFF CALL Timer.bat then... <<timer>> @ECHO OFF CD C:\Program Files CD Project Timer ProjectTimer.exe @ECHO OFF The first bat calls the second...but not quite working. Whats wrong?? Thanks |
mellingham (1769) | ||
| 77680 | 2002-09-08 11:24:00 | Just place the whole lot in one, and call the entire command line: @echo off c:\program files\macromedia\dreamweaver ultradev 4\ultradev.exe c:\program files\project timer\projecttimer.exe @echo off You may need to place those command lines in speech marks to make them work, or use the "c:\progra~1\etc" trick |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 77681 | 2002-09-08 11:31:00 | if you want both programs to run simultaneously then place START in front of each command in 'antmannz' command procedure reply... e.g. @echo off START c:\program files\macromedia\dreamweaver ultradev 4\ultradev.exe START c:\program files\project timer\projecttimer.exe @echo off For more info re the START command: Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command. START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL] [/WAIT] [/B] [command/program] [parameters] "title" Title to display in window title bar. path Starting directory B Start application without creating a new window. The application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt the application I The new environment will be the original environment passed to the cmd.exe and not the current environment. MIN Start window minimized MAX Start window maximized SEPARATE Start 16-bit Windows program in separate memory space SHARED Start 16-bit Windows program in shared memory space LOW Start application in the IDLE priority class NORMAL Start application in the NORMAL priority class HIGH Start application in the HIGH priority class REALTIME Start application in the REALTIME priority class ABOVENORMAL Start application in the ABOVENORMAL priority class BELOWNORMAL Start application in the BELOWNORMAL priority class WAIT Start application and wait for it to terminate command/program If it is an internal cmd command or a batch file then the command processor is run with the /K switch to cmd.exe. This means that the window will remain after the command has been run. If it is not an internal cmd command or batch file then it is a program and will run as either a windowed application or a console application. parameters These are the parameters passed to the command/program Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 77682 | 2002-09-08 11:38:00 | got it in the end thanks...for your reference.... @echo off START c:\progra~1\macrom~1\dreamw~1\ultradev.exe START c:\progra~1\projec~1\projecttimer.exe @echo off Damn short filenames! Thanks for all your help everybody. Matt |
mellingham (1769) | ||
| 77683 | 2002-09-09 04:12:00 | Yeah, if it's longer than 8 characters long, try taking the first 6 letters and then putting a "~1" after it, minus the speach marks. If there's a space withing those six, ignore it. I think that's what I did last time. You don't even need @Echo off, it could simply consist of the follwing: c:\progra~1\macrom~1\dreamw~1\ultradev.exe c:\progra~1\projec~1\projecttimer.exe that would work too! Chilling_Silence |
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