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well when I posted that first message it was for scripts at my work, to generate some logon scripts for certain groups of users, but now Im at home and Im having an issue in trying to run a program... World of Warcraft, I want to make a simple script that will open it and do a few basic things for me, but the problem I have is that it doesn't easily recognize what program Im trying to open:
dim pb1 set pb1 = createobject("wscript.shell") pb1.run "WoW", 1 wscript.sleep 8000 pb1.sendkeys "username{tab}password~"
now for the "WoW" I've tried: "World of Warcraft" "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"
among a few other things, but no matter what I get a runtime error saying it cannot locate the file...
also I tried creating a variable called location1 and setting it equal to "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" and then putting pb1.run location1, 1 that was yet another failure...
so ya any help on this would be greatly appreciated
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xandros' first suggestion should work as there are spaces in the path you need to enclose it in quotes. Also, if you want to undo whatever it is you are doing after wow exits, make sure to add a ,1,True to the end of your run command.
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thanks guys it worked perfectly, and Im not quite sure I get what u mean tho for the "if u want to undo whatever it is you are doing after wow exits" Im not quite understanding what u mean, if u could elaborate I'd be grateful :)
The Run method of the Wscript class provides for 3 parameters... the last two are optional. They control the "windowstyle" and the "synchronicity" of the spawned process. 1, True specifies to display the shell window and to force the current script to wait until the spawned process terminates before resuming with the next statement. Here's a link describing the parameters: http://www.ss64.com/wsh/run.html
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ah, that's actually quite handy to know as I was trying to figure that out as well (you just saved me having to bother you with yet another obnoxious question :-D)
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