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ProgramExecute with whitespaces in file path

Created by: Kahimi at: 1/23/2009 5:03 AM (6 Replies)

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1/23/2009 5:03 AM	Rate (0)
Kahimi Posts: 8 Rating: (0)	Hi, I made a c-action to open PDF file from WinCC button. And it works fine as long as there is no white spaces in file path. This is working: ProgramExecute("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 8.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe C:\\Folder_1\\Filename.pdf"); But this isn't: ProgramExecute("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 8.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe C:\\Folder 2\\Filename.pdf"); Do I need to concatenate the strings before calling ProgramExecute function, and if so, how? Thanks
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1/23/2009 7:41 AM	Rate (0)
Jaapie Gold Member Joined: 1/17/2006 Last visit: 7/19/2024 Posts: 800 Rating: (63)	Hi Kahimi, With the path "Program Files" I also had that problem. Yousometimes have to address it like: "Progra~1".Butthis problem is because of the 8 characters I think. Your problem can be solved when you make a batch file (.bat) and start the bat-file with programexecute. Hope this helps, Jaap

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1/23/2009 9:09 AM	Rate (0)
Kahimi Posts: 8 Rating: (0)	Hi, It seem not to be related to exceeding 8 characters. Without white spaces it works fine, no matter how many characters you have. There is probably easy work around for this, I would like to keep it simple without .bat's. But thanks anyway.
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1/23/2009 10:19 AM	Rate (1)
perdahlqvist Gold Member Joined: 10/26/2005 Last visit: 10/2/2024 Posts: 284 Rating: (50)	Hello! If vbs is not a problem try this. [code] Dim objWshShell Set objWshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") objWshShell.Run "AcroRd32.exe C:\Folder 2\Filename.pdf" [/code]
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1/24/2009 1:30 AM	Rate (0)
Kahimi Posts: 8 Rating: (0)	Hi, I ran into same problem with VBS.
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1/26/2009 12:50 PM	Rate (0)
April Posts: 1776 Rating: (95)	Hi, i agree it is the problem with the blank (or whitespaces) in the file path. If you search in the WinCC Online help for "illigal characters", there is not blank in the folder path. But i don´t use special characters in WinCC
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11/12/2009 1:44 PM	Rate (0)
Palmerita Posts: 102 Rating: (13)	Hi! I just had the same problem. But you can solve it using quotes in the string that containsthe path... what I mean, is, instead of havingf a string containing: C:\Program Files\Program Folder\D1 it should contain: "C:\Program Files\Program Folder\D1" for using quotes inside a string in visual basic you have different possibilities... take a look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/267k4fw5.aspx my favorite one is: [code] Dim programString programString = """" & "C:\Program Files\Program Folder\D1" & """" [/code] like that, programString = "C:\Program Files\Program Folder\D1" hope it is useful Palmerita
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