Trouble with RunCommand [solved ... without using Run]

[Mor3bane]

So this shortcut wont work either the generic way:

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LeftMouseUpAction=["C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe" -enabledeveloperconsole]

Or this way:

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[DAORUN]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
Parameter=-enabledeveloperconsole
StartInFolder="C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\"
Program="DAOrigins.exe"
State=Show

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LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure DAORUN "Run"]

Incidentally the standard windows icon shortcut works fine, but trying to launch it from rainmeter is giving me grief.

Not sure this is somehow wrong but 99.99% of the time simply taking the link in quotes out of a desktop shortcut works, but alas this does not.

[mak_kawa]

I am not sure what is "StartInFolder" option for RunCommand. But...what if you describe the Program option as fullpath, like "C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe"?

[jsmorley]

StartInFolder is really a throwback to the old DOS days, when you wanted to change into the directory that contained your program before you ran it, so the program itself could access or write files it needed to in the proper current directory. Nothing in Windows works this way anymore, and StartInFolder is really a bit of a prehensile-tail, which is really only going to be of much use if you are executing a DOS / CMD "batch" file or something.

Pretty much every Windows shortcut has an entry for "Start in", but almost none of them actually need or use it.

[jsmorley]

LeftMouseUpAction=["C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe" -enabledeveloperconsole]

Looks right to me... Not sure why it isn't working for you.

[mak_kawa]

Hi jsmorley

Thank you for clarification. I now realize that the "StartInFolder" is equivalent to the "Working Folder" of the Windows shortcut property.

[Mor3bane]

I get this error.
The file is in another directory, but as i said the actual desktop shortcut works fine.

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I am trying to bypass the launcher which is annoying. Using the launcher path:

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"C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\DAOriginsLauncher.exe"

Works fine. But it uses a launch window that is just redundant after initial setup...

[jsmorley]

I get this error.
The file is in another directory, but as i said the actual desktop shortcut works fine.

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Ah, ok.

Try this:

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[DAORUN]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
Parameter="C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe"-enabledeveloperconsole
StartInFolder=""C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\""
State=Show

You need the two ""quotes"" on StartInFolder since Rainmeter will throw away the first set of starting and ending quotes.

[jsmorley]

Another option, and perhaps simpler, is to go find the shortcut, shift-right-click it, and say "Copy as path".

Then just use that...

LeftMouseUpAction=["C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Graphics\GifCam.lnk"]

Not the "program", the "shortcut"...

[Mor3bane]

Meh.
Did it just like this:

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[DAORUN]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
Parameter="C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe"-enabledeveloperconsole
StartInFolder=""C:\GOG Games\Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\""
State=Show

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LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure DAORUN "Run"]

Nothing happens now - but... no error message.
I remember being able to do this a long while back - there was a trick iirc... just dont remember...

[Mor3bane]

Another option, and perhaps simpler, is to go find the shortcut, shift-right-click it, and say "Copy as path".

Then just use that...

LeftMouseUpAction=["C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Graphics\GifCam.lnk"]

Not the "program", the "shortcut"...

The same error again :'(